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God Of War: Ragnarok (2022)

God of War, and Kratos have been permanently solidified in gaming for a while now, but I think these last two God of War games have really elevated the series into something more than just a cool hack and slash franchise. Taking the series in a new direction with the

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Stray (2022)

I’m a cat person, I always have been. My first memory of a cat was when I was around 3 and my parents got a little kitten for me, and he sadly ran out into the street and was… well… let’s just say he was gone. But as

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Session (2022)

Activision kinda salted the earth with the Tony Hawk series for a while. There were many different extreme sports and even skateboarding games for a while, but once Activision started putting out yearly Tony Hawk games, no one really dared to go against it. Then when that series ended the

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The Puppeteer (2013)

Too little in video games, do the games go out of their way to actually use the medium to do something tremendous and truly creative. The Puppeteer does so with gusto and vigor, as the entire game takes place as a stage play, and it keeps that theming throughout the

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Metal: Hellsinger (2022)

There has been an abundance of first person shooters that revel in the dark catacombs of hell, and the soundtrack always features a more metal tone to it. So that’s what the developers of Meta: Hellsinger created, a perfect marriage of metal and first person shooting in hell. The

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Destroy All Humans 2: Reprobed (2022)

Last year I finished the remaster Destroy All Humans, thanks to it being put out on Gamepass. Going back to a game I never finished was great, especially with all the modern improvements remastered ports bring. I was so eager to continue on with Crypto’s story, that I immediately

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Astro's Playroom (2020)

Selling the controller’s gimmick

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OlliOlli World (2022)

When the first Olli Olli game came out, it was at a time when the extreme sports, mainly Skateboarding game was all but non-existent. With the Tony Hawk games being pushed to the brink of becoming a yearly cash grab, people got sick of them really quickly, and no game

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RollerDrome (2022)

Roll7 the development team behind to OllieOllie series showcased their new game at E3 this year without much explanation. Just a short trailer showing a new game that features a sport called RollerDrome set in the near future of 2030, where bloodsport TV is all the rage and contestants battle

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Lonely Downhill Mountains (2019)

Sometimes the most enjoyable games don’t require tons of built in mechanics or massive budgets combining hundreds of development staff all trying to make a large game. Sometimes a game just needs to do one thing extremely well to captivate you, and Lonely Downhill Mountains does just that. Taking

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Vampire Survivors (2022)

I very rarely get so into a game that it can suck a full weekend away without much thought, but due to some very crappy infection issues, I was forced to occupy my time inside and luckily I found a game that completely took my mind off the situation. I

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Kirby and the Forgotten Land (2022)

Nintendo applies a certain formula to their games, and it’s always interesting to see what they do to their franchises in the next sequel. Kirby games have always felt like a weird outlier, where they really repeat and double down on the formula, to the point where you could

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Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit Remake (2022)

For whatever reason it is considered cool to bag on the Sonic series, and it’s fans in particular. While I will say the fandom around the Sonic series has gotten a bit out of control, and the worst ones make the entire community look awful. But fandom aside, I

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Cuphead: Delicious Last Course (2022)

Cuphead is one of those rare “perfect” games in my mind. Everything it sets out to do, it does not only well, but so masterfully, that I do consider it a perfect game. Where nothing can really be improved upon. It’s been fine tuned so much and tweaked and

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MudRunner (2017)

The SpinTires series of games is a bit weird, as each game is called something different. It first started off with SpinTires, a game all about getting stuck in the mud in Russia. Then came “MudRunner: A SpinTires game”, and in 2020 the third game in the series called “SnowRunner”

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (2022)

Back in the 90’s the Brawler genre (or Beat ‘Em Ups, as some call it) was everywhere. Most notably in the Arcade platform with games like Double Dragon or The Simpsons being standouts that everyone knew and loved… but there was one that still reigned over all in the

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Sniper Elite 5 (2022)

The Sniper Elite series always felt like a game that put being a video game first and everything else second. The staple X-Ray kills have been cemented into gaming just like the gory X-Ray hits in Mortal Kombat. That is what you come to for the series, and what you

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Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

The first real time I paid attention to CD Projekt Red was back in 2014 at E3, with a behind closed doors demo of The Witcher 3. I tried getting into it a year earlier, but all the appointments were booked, but luckily I was able to still get in

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Teardown (2022)

Voxels were the next big leap in gaming at one point, and it feels like everyone just straight up forgot about them. Voxels are basically individual cubes that various objects and worlds can be created from millions of them. Teardown utilizes voxels to create a world that is able to

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Shredders (2022)

Extreme sports games have become a much smaller genre in gaming over the last decade. When they do come out, most try to recreate or recapture the very familiar style of games of massive success, like the Tony Hawk series. One of the biggest sports besides Skateboarding was snowboarding, and

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Elden Ring (2022)

My time spent with the newest game developed by From Software has been much longer than any previous game in the series. While Bloodborne did intrigue me with its setting and atmosphere and general quick movement, compared to the other Souls games I just never purchased it to give it

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Aperture Desk Job (2022)

Desk Job, the newest “game” developed by Valve, is more of an interactive promotional experience than a real game. Taking place in Valve’s Half-Life universe, and the Aperture Science Labs, it continues the ever evolving slow spanning story of Cave Johnson. Which is surprising that one of their biggest

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Infernax (2022)

When I played through the Castlevania series a few years ago, I struggled with Castlevania 2 probably more than any of the other ones. Partly due to it being so bafflingly hard to progress without some sort of guide book, as it required you to hang out on random parts

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A Plague Tale: Innocence (2019)

Just not enough games focus on 14th century France. Nor do they revel in the gross and disgusting conditions of those far off times. A Plague Tale: Innocence spends the majority of the time showing the gross underbelly of France during this time period and is using the Black Plague

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Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (2018)

After I modded my switch and downloaded everything under the sun that I could possibly want. I came across a game that got my interest a couple years ago. Nintendo has always had this weird obsession with drumming games, with Donkey Konga and their stupid loud annoying bongos being the