Siobhán Casey
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CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED
With Armored Core 6, FromSoftware has a chance to be cool again
After decades of games about locking onto and rolling around the big man, it's time for a change – and FromSoft knows it.
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TRAIN ON YOUR PARADE
Honkai: Star Rail rekindles memories of absolutely banging PS2 RPGs
Star Rail doesn’t do anything new or revolutionary, but what it does, it does well – and that's very nostalgic for a specific flavour of nerd.
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VICE, VICE, BABY
Crime Boss: Rockay City is tantamount to elder abuse
This tepid, try-hard crime simulator serves as a final indignity to the handful of faded stars who bothered to call back.
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NIGHT (CITY) AND DAY
Cyberpunk 2077, in its current state, is a much better open-world RPG than The Witcher 3
Ever role-played as a taxi driver in Night City? You should try it; it's better than watching Geralt auto-gallop to his next contract.
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A CARD DAY'S NIGHT
Marvel Snap made me think I was great at games – then I made a horrible discovery
Marvel Snap does a good job of making you think you're smart and clever. Until you realise the horrible truth.
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chasing scars
Dreamlight Valley is a waking nightmare and Disney must be stopped
Disney's attempt to bottle Animal Crossing's lightning has created a product of pure, unfiltered evil – but did you expect any less?
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canine and able
Let's be honest, Stray would have worked much better with a dog
BlueTwelve Studio certainly caught a lot of attention with its cat game, but perhaps it would have better with a dog instead.
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one-hack mind
Ubisoft's best open world isn't in Assassin's Creed or Far Cry, but in Watch Dogs 2
After a bland, uninspired first game, Ubisoft rallied to make one of its most interesting settings in Watch Dogs 2's hacktivist fantasy.
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Fair, and Fair-alike
PSP game or not, Crisis Core deserves its remaster; it’s become an integral part of Final Fantasy 7
On paper, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 sounds absolutely abhorrent – so how did it become an essential part of the beloved series?
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Cain and unable
As good as Elden Ring is, it can’t save how awful FromSoft’s first, experimental Ring game was
Between the cult King's Field trilogy, the sci-fi weirdness of Armored Core, and the iconic Demon's Souls, there was Eternal Ring. Unfortunately.
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Pain in the Arx
Arx Fatalis, the 2003 RPG banger, is so good it should have absolutely destroyed Elder Scrolls
Waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6? Put down Daggerfall – or Morrowind, or Skyrim – and let Arx Fatalis show you a bad time, instead.