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Video Game Review
game review
Mar. 21, 2024
The Platonic Ideal of Fantasy Adventure
Dragon’s Dogma 2
delivers a quirky, evocative open world straight out of a sword-and-sorcery novel.
By
Lewis Gordon
video game review
Feb. 22, 2024
Going Through It in
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
The open world of Cloud Strife & Co. is weirdly relatable.
By
Lewis Gordon
video game review
Oct. 31, 2023
The Weirdest Blockbuster Video Game Ever Made
Alan Wake 2
, the sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s cult hit, is equal parts esoteric, daring, and moving.
By
Lewis Gordon
video game review
Oct. 30, 2023
Keep Mario Weird
The pleasures of
Super
Mario Bros. Wonder
, and Nintendo broadly, are rarely just about the strengths of its gameplay.
By
Nicholas Quah
game review
May 24, 2023
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Taps the Ceiling of What Switch Can Do
It’s a god game with the patina of a ronin story that makes you wonder,
This is good, but is this as good as it gets?
By
Craig Jenkins
video games
Feb. 23, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy
Is J.K. Rowling’s Legacy, Summed Up in a Dud of a Game
The feverishly anticipated
Harry Potter
video game can’t muster the fantasy escapism it so desperately wants.
By
Lewis Gordon
video games
Dec. 2, 2022
The Callisto Protocol
Ups the Ick
The spiritual successor to the survival-horror classic
Dead Space
doesn’t let the dread build.
By
Lewis Gordon
video game review
Nov. 3, 2022
Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in
God of War Ragnarök
The muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
By
Lewis Gordon
video games
Aug. 30, 2022
Whatever Happened to Marissa Marcel?
Solve an unsettling Hollywood mystery in Sam Barlow’s new video game,
Immortality.
By
Lewis Gordon
video game review
July 19, 2022
Stray
Takes a Cat’s Eye View of Cyberpunk Dystopia
The new perspective is adorable, but only scratches the surface.
By
Lewis Gordon
video games
Mar. 24, 2022
The ‘Petroleum Blues’ of
Norco
Tribeca’s first Games Award winner is a point-and-click gothic adventure.
By
Lewis Gordon
video games
Feb. 10, 2022
Sifu
Channels Great Martial-Arts Movies Into a Pretty Good Beat-’Em-Up Game
But it can’t quite match up to its influences.
By
Lewis Gordon
video games
Nov. 10, 2020
PlayStation 5 Argues That Games Don’t Need to Change
Sony’s new console isn’t too big of a leap forward — at least not yet.
By
Joshua Rivera
video game review
Sept. 8, 2020
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2
Is a Perfect Piece of ’90s Nostalgia
The revived classic is easily the best skate game in a long time.
By
Craig Jenkins
video game review
June 19, 2020
The Last of Us Part II
Plays a Dark, Cynical Trick
The game wants players to wrestle with extreme violence, perhaps a little bit too much.
By
Joshua Rivera
video game review
Nov. 1, 2019
Death Stranding
Is the Year’s Most Bewildering, Ambitious Game
It’s the story of a mailman who hikes across the continent to reboot the internet.
By
Brian Feldman