Super Mario 3D World is a damn good Mario game. It may have some issues with gauging distance due to its oddly placed camera angle, it still excels at offering a wide range of variety across its many stages. The game’s newest addition, Bowser’s Fury, on the other hand, is without question one of the best Mario experiences ever, making this a damn impressive package overall.

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox takes a few bold steps into innovating the series by offering up a pretty spacious open-world to explore in the Prison City of Balduq, and its partially connected outskirts. While the graphics engine the series is running on is likely working off fumes at this point, it does just enough to offer up a fun and enjoyable adventure.

The Medium is aptly named, whereas it exists between small and large, it is in much the same way that good exists between bad and great. While there are certainly a lot of fantastic ideas here around this “good” game, it sadly doesn’t capitalize on them as much as it could have. This Silent Hill inspired game can certainly entertain, but it lacks the impact Microsoft needed for its first big exclusive.