In the final moments of Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Cloud finds himself at Destiny’s Crossroads. Sephiroth has torn a hole in the fabric of reality, and a thrashing gateway into an unknown future be...

Dragon’s Dogma 2 doesn’t have a traditional fast-travel system. For most open-world games, this would be a death sentence–an affront to the player’s valuable time. Yet somehow,...

More than almost any other genre, the metroidvania is reaching a saturation point. We have beloved modernizations like Hollow Knight and Axiom Verge and big-budget takes like Batman: Arkham Asylum or ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a wildly popular anime and manga series that stars a captivating cast of characters all seeking to protect innocents from insidious threats. My wife and I are huge fa...

Coming off the heels of the decade-long Hydaelyn and Zodiark saga, Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail takes you to completely new territory, quite literally. For once, you–the Warrior of Light–are offered t...

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn has been marketed as a souls-lite rather than the more common souls-like, which I assumed meant it would be more approachable while still retaining many of the genre’s cor...

Back in 2020 when I reviewed Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, I talked about how much that game’s story had a real sense of finality to it, bringing together and concluding dozens of narrative t...

There are few gaming experiences more engrossing, engaging, and satisfying than a quality strategy-RPG. They offer the joy of building up a little ragtag army, bit by bit, into a gang of storied warri...

Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ) is HoYoverse’s third game launch in four years. You’d think that HoYo’s formula would get stale with yet another free-to-play gacha RPG dropping just 15 months after the releas...

Forza Motorsport is nearly as old as the Xbox brand itself, but it’s had a surprisingly extended absence since its last entry in 2017. In its place, the less simulation-focused, open-world Forza Horiz...