To celebrate the arrival of the new game Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, we rank every English-language release in the Like a Dragon [aka Yakuza] videogame series punktoto from worst to best by Metascore. Better still, you could scrape together a mud hut with your bare hands and avoid running into any monsters. Then again, it’ll be dark in there and you won’t be able to tell when it’s morning and, just, what the hell is wrong with you?
The game recently had a demo in Steam’s Next Fest that offered an hour of highly enjoyable… Speeder bike combat is even more restrictive, although it does serve as the best source of unintentional comedy that you can find in Outlaws. Annoyingly, you have no option to free-aim while in the saddle; instead, you have to try and dodge the blaster bolts of any attackers in hot pursuit while your adrenaline meter charges until you can finally unleash a slow-motion blast to bring their chase to a fiery halt. By that same token, I got plenty of laughs from speeding headlong towards cliff faces, pumping the brakes at the last second, and watching my pursuers blaze right by me and smear themselves against the escarpment. So at least speeder combat seemed as perilous for them as it did for me. Yet at other times it was wildly unpredictable, like when I’d somehow trigger an alarm performing a stealth takedown even though it appeared that no one else was around.
Capcom approached this remake especially cautiously, giving it a light touch of upgrades that make the whole experience feel modern without losing its soul. It’s also never looked more beautiful, so you can see the horrific monstrosities of Las Plagas with newfound fidelity. When it comes to writing, Disco Elysium is perhaps unrivaled.
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Here I was at the start of my journey and I had already witnessed a level of reactiveness which felt impressive and real. And yet, catching some dude ogling my Zoi–a phrase with a gross mouthfeel that I hope I never have to write again–was one of the highlights of my time actually playing InZoi. Whereas the world is filled with cozy games, life sims, and plenty of other titles that reside somewhere between the two, extremely few play quite like The Sims. It goes without saying that Maxis created something extremely special back in something so creative, charming, innovative, and intricately designed that seemingly no other game studio has even attempted to put an end to its quarter-century long reign over the life-sim genre. There is no denying that the franchise’s reputation has taken some hits over the years, primarily due to its perceived stagnation and parent company EA’s predatory monetization tactics. As this discontent has grown, so too has the number of people looking for a viable competitor.
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Everybody who participated in voting has tons of personal favorites that didn’t gain quite enough traction with the group to make the cut, which is inevitable when there are this many games and so many different perspectives. With the year now coming to an end, we’ve compiled a list of every such game — new, standalone releases (no DLC) that received an 8 (“Great”), 9 (“Amazing”), or 10 (“Masterpiece”) from IGN. Click through the gallery below or continue scrolling for our full list of 2021’s best games, ordered from lowest score to highest. Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
November 15, 2023 • Nintendo puts a new coat of paint on an old classic, tweaking its Final Fantasy-style combat just enough to succeed for a modern audience. December 14, 2023 • Meta Quest fans have been asking for an exclusive longform, big-budget game for years. Asgard’s Wrath 2 delivers with diverse gameplay and a divine cast. January 24, 2024 • Final Fantasy 7 is more than an iconic PlayStation game.
Atomfall is a gripping survival-action adventure that takes some of the best elements of Fallout and Elden Ring, and synthesises them into its own fresh mutation. It presents a picturesque chunk of English countryside littered with alluring structures to pique and reward your curiosity, eccentric locals to meet, and absorbing mysteries to unravel, and uses classic iconography from British sci-fi and horror to consistently unsettling effect. In spite of some enemy behaviours that are occasionally less stable than a reactor in meltdown, Atomfall is a compelling, post-apocalyptic survival story that satisfyingly bends to your choices and discoveries no matter which direction you take. I enjoyed consistently sniping from the shadows, although it must be said that Atomfall’s stealth system doesn’t feel quite as adaptable as that of developer Rebellion’s own Sniper Elite series. Nor can you craft a smoke bomb to mask your escape from an area, as far as I can tell – although admittedly I can’t be completely sure about that. Given how much Atomfall loves to tuck secrets into almost every dark corner of its world, there’s every chance that there’s a smoke bomb recipe clenched in a corpse’s hand at the bottom of a mineshaft somewhere that I haven’t stumbled upon yet after over a dozen hours.
Blue Prince is a game of many puzzles, some are simple single-room contraptions, while others will require knowledge you’ve acquired across multiple runs, a collection of carefully collected items, and a combination of specific rooms to be drawn from the deck. If you’re going to try out the new life game, first up, you’ll want to know how to move, rotate, and scale objects in InZOI (the system can be a little fussy) and also how to solve the already notorious InZOI stuck Zoi problem. With those preparations in hand, we can take a proper look into the InZOI Steam launch, and see that – despite the massive amounts of apprehension and hype – everything seems to be going extremely well. When my cover was blown and things did get loud, I found Atomfall’s fighting to be exhilaratingly rough and tumble for the most part, but also noticeably inconsistent. Conversely, there were other times when its enemies were comically inept, like when I’d lure a group of them around a corner or up a ladder like a line of Lake District lemmings and smack each British bandit squarely in their stiff upper lip with my cricket bat.