The first two thirds are the best FromSoftware has to offer, but the last third falls very flat. I would put it as a case of trying to too hard to give veteran Souls players a real challenge.

But those first two thirds are basically perfect.

An A24 movie but a game.

A cool epilogue to the main game. The action focus shouldn't work but it's so ridiculous that it does.

Kirby's most defining game. The copy ability and minigames would become staples of every Kirby game after this.

Amazing they got this running on an NES.

Perfectly fine little Mario game you can burn through in 30 minutes.

The dark sections go on a bit too long and the ending escort mission is pretty poorly designed but I love the aesthetic of this game so much.

One of the few intentionally funny games to actually make me laugh.

Well this is disappointing. 343 clearly had season 6 mostly complete but Microsoft pulled the plug on it to get the studio working on a new game. It's evident the devs weren't happy about this considering they didn't even give this update a name and shoved all the armor pieces on the store for $38. Only one new map?

It seems the strategy was to get Infinite to good standing with the player base with the past 2 seasons and then cash out with a pitiful "content update."

The story between Chief and Cortana is great but the narrative surrounding it is weak by comparison.

The multiplayer was a weird mix of traditional Halo and Call of Duty in an effort to "modernize" the gameplay. Just two years later in the MCC the COD elements were completely removed.

It's Mario

Everything this game attempts it does perfectly.

Brilliant in a lot of ways. Superfluous in others. An open world game that actually has an interesting world.

All great games but the bare minimum of a re-release. Add on top that the limited availability and you get a very poor package.

Fairly solid foundation ruined by the need to be a live service. It's a shame because the characterization of the main campaign characters is all really good.

The first half is one of a greatest games of all time; the second half is unfinished garbage that knocks a full star off. Worth playing for the S-tier first half.