Stray is a title about life, legacy, and loss. You’ll travel around a walled-in city, helping out its civilians as you attempt to find a way to escape this cyberpunk metropolis. You’ll have a friend in B-12, a drone who can hack doors and converse with you about the state of the world, and you’ll do all this as a little orange cat, complete with a dedicated meow button.
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II has finally been re-released on modern consoles, given the same coat of paint as its predecessor did last year, which is to say seeing the title sporting an upgraded resolution and widescreen support. While the adventure itself is as fun as it has always been, it’s a game was really should have had more work done to bring it to today’s hardware.
Simulation games are nothing new. But those that hit a high level of mainstream, those that become a talking point across the industry, or those that show up in top ten charts alongside the AAA heavy-hitters, well, those are exceedingly rare. And yet, that is exactly what Power Wash Simulator has done.
Outriders: Worldslayer certainly aims to set up the future of expansion content for Outriders, but while the improvements to skills and gear are sound, even fantastic at times, the core content loop is simply not enough. Its brief 4-hour campaign isn’t given enough time to flesh out its villain, and its endgame is the most repetitive content the title has given us thus far.
Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is certainly a better go-around that the previous effort by Omega Force. While it adapts the Three Houses storyline in an alternative way, with great results of borrowing a lot of key systems, the lack of variety in the mission objectives, reused locations, and disappointing storyline for its protagonist, certainly hold it back.
Armed with a gun and a supernatural camera lens, you’ll investigate a mystery buried deep within the walls of the St. Dinfna Hotel. Inspired by a wealth of survival horror games, such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel succeeds more than it stumbles, creating an engaging, albeit clunky, horror experience.
