A great array of distinctive cars, mix of winding country roads and crowded urban highways, and modes that emphasize clean racing help this racer shine
There’s a decent strategic base here, and it feels good to make progress, but it isn’t great when you still don’t feel like you’re fully on board with all of the game’s many ideas
A mix of pointed humor, some procedural unpredictability, and what feels like a unique challenge help to at least make this an interesting experience overall
While it has some decent ideas and story beats at its core, mechanically it plays slowly and in a pretty clunky manner, detracting from the overall experience
While I suppose the volume of potential love interests you can talk to could have some appeal, the pacing of speech and needing to rely on subtitles detracts from the experience
While it does manage to throw a few different looks at you tied to each biome, there’s no getting around this simply being a pretty basic reskin of the classic Pipes
While the inherent religious underpinning of the game may not be for everyone, its friendly messages, approachable play, and reasonable variety are all plusses
Brilliant storytelling, voice work, and production values are undercut on Switch by completely unnecessary forced censorship and gameplay that can feel tangential
The follow-up to Keeping an Eye on You has a bit less content to explore, but also refines some of the rough edges of the original and still remains compelling
Between its slow pace in ramping up, sluggish controls, an inability to speed the action, and being quite plainly derivative, Awakening has significant downsides
While extremely timely for this moment in the world, and conceptually it explores what can be the arbitrary nature of the surveillance state, in terms of gameplay it’s a bit thin
A classically-styled city-builder that will test your ability to meticulously place and plan your building layouts, but that may lack the depth or intensity to attract a broader audience
Super chill and family-friendly, though there is still a price to be paid with pacing and what becomes a somewhat samey blandness, but it ticks cozy boxes for sure
Taking the series signature musou combat to a new level, the combination of satisfying overall combat and large-scale battlefield chaos help this to shine
While it absolutely offers up a very deliberately-paced experience that’s calm and has wholesome appeal, the technical issues and some blandness make it tough to get excited about on Switch
