I spent a full depressive episode playing this game and came out the other side with so much utterly useless information stuck in my brain that it hurt, 5/5

If Sekiro is a spiritual successor to Otogi why isn’t Britney Spears in it

Good fundamentals are a little let down by an addiction to self-reference and an unwillingness to explore new design space

This is the dark souls of videogames

A masterpiece and a cornerstone of modern gaming. Sharpens the mechanical underpinnings of Demon’s Souls and King’s Field to a fine edge, with purposeful and deliberate design that defines itself by what it withholds

The king is BACK. Fast, sharp, technically challenging, excellent sound and visuals. narratively and mechanically propulsive singleplayer and skill-testinng and diverse multiplayer, sexy voice acting…

Absolute zoomies. No player character in game of any genre has ever matched the speed and power of a well-tuned NEXT

Shadow The Hedgehog if it was good

Improves on AC3 with a more daring storyline and some gameplay refinements, bringing some much needed big concept strangeness to the setting

A methodical and punishing entry in the series, maybe the slowest Armored Core I’ve played. A weak plot lets it down a bit in the aggregate

Deeply clunky but there’s obvious greatness nascent in the moody and technical mechanical nightmare

One of the greatest successes in making you feel like a huge badass. Deeply cool asymmetrical multiplayer design, remarkable singleplayer campaign, very cool mechs

I miss my wife, Shinji.

Best anti-bullying PSA ever made. Incredible child-fighting gameplay

All of the best the Yakuza series has to offer, in gameplay, writing, environment design, sense of place…sets a very high bar