![]() ![]() The catch here is that you’re only about the size of an ant, and you use even smaller creatures called Tinykin to help you get around.Īs you adventure through the house you’ll command your Tinykin to help complete various tasks, like creating a disco bathtub rave for some resident bugs, rescuing a small critter from inside a piano, or baking a delicious treat with a host of hard-to-find ingredients. You play as a young astronaut, of sorts, who is trapped inside a normal human house. Tinykin is one of the best collect-a-thon platformers since the golden age of the Nintendo 64. Persona 5 Royal is available on Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X via Game Pass. So it’s no surprise that Royal makes a great game even better by simply adding more. ![]() But it’s also that rare breed of game that never feels like too much, even as it balloons to multiple days worth of in-game time. Persona 5 is already an excellent RPG filled with awesome dungeons and a delightful story. And, of course, there are new non-combat friends to make as well, all of which feel just as fleshed out as the original cast. An extra 20 hours in Royal is another 20 hours spent getting to know your best friends, a great cast of beloved characters that act as both confidant and turn-based chess pieces. But in typically Persona fashion, that new party member doesn’t matter nearly as much as the relationship they come with it. Royal adds a new Phantom Thief for you to battle alongside. Normally, the idea of spending another 20+ hours in a game that already takes 100+ hours would sound like nightmare, but with Persona it’s more like that one time your parents were two hours late to pick you up at a friend’s house. Persona 5 Royal takes one of the best and longest JRPGs of the past decade and tacks another major story chapter on the end. Mike MahardyĪ Plague Tale: Requiem is available on Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X via Game Pass. Pacing is crucial in third-person adventures, and Requiem’s expert flow of puzzles, stealth sequences, horrifying set-pieces, and brutal combat scenarios is pacing at its best. The respite comes to an end, of course, propelling the duo on a journey across the French countryside, through rat-infested tunnels, and across the rooftops of plague-ridden slums. Set shortly after A Plague Tale: Innocence, Requiem finds protagonist Amicia and her younger brother Hugo during a brief reprieve from the Macula, the sinister plague that gives Hugo vicious powers, but is also eating him from the inside. And despite the pedigree of the above examples, I have encountered few “escort” stories as stunning as that of A Plague Tale: Requiem. Whether it be a man escorting his proxy daughter through an apocalyptic America, a father guiding his son through the trials of mythical Armageddon, or a government agent sent to retrieve the president’s daughter from a remote Spanish village, this is a medium obsessed with those who have been deemed guardians. ![]() Video games have an endless fascination with protectors. Signalis is available on Windows PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X via Game Pass. Its unforgiving atmosphere and PlayStation 1-era graphics belie a modern, clever approach to one of our most revered - and intense – genres. ![]() Ammo is limited and deranged enemies won’t hesitate to rush you with butcher knives. It puts you in the robotic shoes of a reawakened android as she searches for her counterpart in a wintry, forsaken base. Its controls are (mostly) smooth its puzzles are intuitive it’s downright eerie. Signalis, on the other hand, is brand-new, and it shows. They hold a special place in my heart, and I’ve devoured their numerous remakes and remasters whenever they see the light of day. Their fixed camera angles, intimate locales, and focus on survival made for a palpable sense of dread, but their cumbersome control schemes and opaque, often infuriating puzzle structure can make all but the most patient modern players quit. For as good as the original Resident Evil games are, they’ve been hard to recommend for a couple decades now. ![]()
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