Rolled credits on this a couple days ago, but ended up spending twice as much time scouring every inch of this stunning and mysterious world for all its secrets...and there are many. Rooms, puzzles, eggs, and the elusive bunnies which at this point I've given up on. I've seen and done far more in this than I ever thought I would. Visually dense, vibrant, kaleidoscopic. This is matched perfectly by its precise mechanics, it just feels incredible to play. You master its simple movements gradually as more is added to your toolkit until you find a sense that you are breaking the game the way you combine them. Recommend going for the true ending, it's a feast, and the secrets you find along the way open this right up. Brilliant game.

Glad to finally have my hands on this childhood classic of mine and it has aged more brilliantly than I'd hoped for. A grounded, atmospheric, and even sometimes terrifying survival game. The default settings are HUD-less, not even a crosshair. You use every resource available to you, mostly bone spears, to navigate the hostile Skull Island. Fight dinosaurs, giant centipedes, primordial gators, you name it. All of these monsters eat each other as well. Kill one and use it as bait to make your escape. Stick a big bug on a spear and throw it into thorny bramble to lure them in then set the bramble on fire to burn them all to death. It's filled with these little emergent moments. Then suddenly you play as Kong in a big monster brawler, climbing vines and breaking V-Rex jaws. Easily the gold standard for movie tie-ins, a genuinely great survival game on its own. The best game Ubisoft have touched.