A truly bizarre experience. The cat's spot-on mannerisms and behaviors can't overcome its dead-eyed, uncanny-valley expressions, nor can its initial charms last in a narrative driven almost exclusively by the cat's companion. I ultimately felt nothing for The Cat as it is little more than a conveyance for the true soul of the story; it was like playing The Witcher as Roach.

A truly bizarre experience. The cat's spot-on mannerisms and behaviors can't overcome its dead-eyed, uncanny-valley expressions, nor can its initial charms last in a narrative driven almost exclusively by the cat's companion. I ultimately felt nothing for The Cat as it is little more than a conveyance for the true soul of the story; it was like playing The Witcher as Roach.

An absolute masterpiece that took a juvenile, gore-horny franchise and used its history to create a melancholy treatise on the persistence of past mistakes. Next to The Last of Us, no other game has used peerless gameplay to tell such a resonant tale of fearful fathers.

Too much everything, except focus and sense of humor. Oppressively huge and detailed setting, but I ultimately didn’t give a shit about anything that was happening. *Never played online

Like many franchises, Super Mario Bros first jump into 3D has not aged well. At this point it’s more of a historical milestone than an entertaining play.

Resounding proof of our minds’ abilities to embellish fond memories. A lot of the color and depth I remember from this game did not actually exist and had been filled in thru 20 years of pop culture ubiquity. Everything after the destruction of Sector 7 is a slog, and the characters are cool to look at, but ultimately shallow. Even harder to play after the superior remake.

2-D platforming perfection.

Gameplay gets most of the focus when it comes to Souls games and the like, but this game may have the most perfectly designed world in all of gaming. If you haven't read You Died by Jason Killingsworth and Keza McDonald, that book will explain why.

My favorite game of all time, and it has held that distinction through a very strong decade of gaming.

Provided you vibed with the original, this is a perfect sequel. PERFECT. SEQUEL.

While I understand the love this game has garnered, I quickly lost patience with the abysmal controls. In my memory, it feels like Manual Samuel without the fun lunacy.

My favorite Zelda game to this day.

The game did a pretty poor job easing players into a completely new genre, and not even my love of Persona 5 could keep me going. Bailed pretty early on this one.

Gorgeous, epic, and a hell of a lot of fun to play. Still got a charge out of face-offs deep into my second Platinum run.

An entertaining adventure while it lasts, but it lacks the lasting impression of other Arkane efforts like Dishonored. A wet fart of an ending probably didn't help it's staying power either.