Video games can offer players glimpses into other cultures, but so many of them choose the same ones. Assassin’s Creed is a decent example of this since, even though it has visited places like Egypt and Damascus, most entries focus on European points of views in European cultures. Tchia takes place far away from Europe and on a few islands inspired by New Caledonia, which is off the coast of Australia. Even with a culturally unique setting and cutesy visual style, its shallow gameplay is entirely too familiar and repetitive to make for a worthy digital vacation.

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Team Ninja was one of the few teams to take the soulslike formula into its own direction, as it beautifully combined FromSoftware’s landmark blueprint with its own particular brand of action games. It worked out wonderfully for the two Nioh titles, and Team Ninja has taken the same approach for Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Although there’s undeniable overlap between the two, Wo Long is more than a reskinned Nioh game, as its focus on parries shows that studio is a multifaceted master of the blade.

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Preserving culture is invaluable to humanity, as traditions can remind us of our past in ways that can inform our future. But not all cultures get that luxury since some naturally die or are purposefully killed. Season: A Letter to the Future explores and gamifies that concept; a novelty in the medium, but one that is let down by its anemic world and lack of purpose or urgency.

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Dead Space has drifted aimlessly in space since 2013 after Electronic Arts unceremoniously severed its umbilical cable. It died on its worst entry, one plagued by bloat, a lopsided appetite for action, and a ridiculous ending that was both too silly and not silly enough. It was almost a mercy killing, but still a premature one at that. A remake of the original was the smartest way to reset the franchise, and that’s the route Motive Studio went down with its 2023 remake. Instead of just mindlessly reconstructing the 2008 hit, the studio has honed in on its many strengths, smoothed out its rough spots, and developed one of the best remakes of all time.

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It’s always special when a studio breaks away from expectations and creates something that contrasts with its established gameography. Horizon and A Plague Tale are solid franchises, but they are slightly more remarkable knowing those teams previously made gritty first-person shooters and licensed kids games, respectively. Hi-Fi Rush is another entry in that elusive club, as it’s a colorful character action game that comes from a developer that has exclusively only released spooky titles like The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo. Hi-Fi Rush is not only fresh within the context of Tango Gameworks’ prior work, but also character action games as a whole since this charismatic opener is one of the best debuts the genre has ever had.

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https://www.comingsoon.net/games/reviews/1263918-hi-fi-rush-review-pc-worth-playing

Square Enix’s fantasies take different forms, but none are quite like Forspoken. This action RPG’s fantasy isn’t final and blends its fantastical elements with a splash of modernity thanks to its unique isekai premise. But rather than being a refreshing take on the types of games Square Enix is known for, Forspoken is a deeply flawed experience that jumps from gripping highs to embarrassing lows, while all too often occupying the mundanity between those extremes.

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https://www.comingsoon.net/games/reviews/1261886-forspoken-review-ps5-worth-buying

Far Cry 6 slogged through its season pass with three increasingly trite expansions, so it’s a bit odd that Ubisoft came back to the dry well one last time so far after the fact with Lost Between Worlds. In typical Ubisoft fashion, this latest roguelite DLC bends reality and mixes the surreal with the real in order to take the series out of its relatively grounded setting. However, Lost Between Worlds retains very little of what makes Far Cry good while simultaneously ignoring what makes for a quality roguelite.

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https://www.comingsoon.net/games/reviews/1253855-far-cry-6-lost-between-worlds-dlc-review-ps5-worth-buying

Guns are just a tool for killing in every other shooter, but that’s not how it is in developer Squanch Games’ High on Life. These tools of destruction talk with their mouths as much as their barrels, which fits the bizarre alien world imagined by Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. High on Life falls into some of the same comedic pitfalls as Roiland’s other work, but that perspective has led to one unique first-person shooter.

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https://www.comingsoon.net/games/reviews/1254114-high-on-life-review-pc-worth-playing

Dead Space left off on a sour note, one with a pungent aftertaste that has lingered for almost a full decade. The Callisto Protocol seemed designed to finally override that nasty aroma with its own approach to the genre, as it was unambiguously inspired by that series and from some of the same creatives. Instead of being a thoughtful successor worthy of carrying the torch, The Callisto Protocol is a bafflingly misguided horror game that’s hopelessly lost in space.

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Super Meat Boy was, and still is, one of the greatest 2D platformers of the modern era. Extremely difficult yet extremely fair, the 2010 platformer excelled because of its tight controls and clever level design — the soundtrack and goofy tone were just solid extras. These qualities make Super Meat Boy Forever’s jump into the auto-runner genre a little peculiar at first, given the differences between sub-genres. And even though Super Meat Boy Forever is disappointingly not the premier cold cuts it once was, it’s still tender enough slab of beef worth chowing down on despite the chewy, gamey bits.

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https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/670678-super-meat-boy-forever-review-switch-pc

Nioh 2 is undoubtedly one of the greatest Soulslikes and it has kept up that quality with its two add-ons, The Tengu’s Disciple and Darkness in the Capital. The First Samurai, ironically the final piece of DLC, has a lot riding on it as it has to live up to both expansions as well as the main game. The First Samurai slices those fears to ribbons as its not only the strongest of the three expansions, but contains some of the best content in the series.

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https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/670443-nioh-2-the-first-samurai-dlc-review-saving-ps4

For the most part, Ubisoft games undeniably pull from a certain blueprint, one the company has been continually iterating on since the good ol’ days of Assassin’s Creed II and Far Cry 3. It’s not often that its games draw heavy comparisons to outside sources but Immortals Fenyx Rising changes that with its obvious parallels to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. A few solid puzzles and a color-soaked art direction don’t propel this game to Olympian heights as it is weighed down by its repetitive nature, relentlessly corny sense of humor, and hand-holdy design.

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https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/668187-immortals-fenyx-rising-review-ps4-ps5-xbox-one-xbox-series-x-pc-switch

Assassin’s Creed Origins was an origin in more ways than one as it went through the beginnings of the Brotherhood and marked a new start for the series as a whole. Odyssey expanded upon that refresh to a fault and now Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the third iteration of this modern RPG formula. Vikings may be a promising starting point, but Valhalla is aimless and bloated beyond recognition, making for a dull and par for the Norse installment in the franchise.

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Supermassive’s exciting foray into anthology horror with Man of Medan seemed to undo a lot of goodwill the studio had built up the out-of-nowhere hit, Until Dawn. That ship-based horror title wasn’t awful, but a clear step down. Little Hope, the second entry into the Dark Pictures Anthology, has a lot more riding on it because it has to prove whether Man of Medan was the anomaly or if Until Dawn was. It seems more like the former since unlike the falsely accused witches it so heavily features, Little Hope deserves to be burned at the stake for its sins.

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https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/664102-little-hope-review-ps4-xbox-one-pc

Few ideas are as ripe for a video game as a cybernetic ninja. Unparalleled agility matched with the boundless power of technology is a blueprint perfectly suited for the interactive medium and the power fantasies it often attracts. Ghostrunner may seem like it was initially birthed out of a pitch meeting filled with similar premises from the “Slam Dunk Game Ideas” list, but it’s more than something a katana-wielding mall ninja would fantasize about. Through its rock-solid controls and well-paced levels, it expertly fulfills the dream of being a cyborg ninja and is one of the best parkour-focused games out there.

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https://www.gamerevolution.com/review/663686-ghostrunner-review-pc-ps4-xbox-one-worth-buy