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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales draws inspiration from the classic Zelda games and reimagines their formula in a compelling way. Dungeons, exploration, and combat are the game’s strongest points. It’s a shame, though, that the game reuses settings and enemies, which prevents it from fully realizing its potential.

Stonemachia stands out for its personality, atmosphere, and original ideas. Not technically flawless, yet it delivers a solid, engaging soulslike that leaves a lasting impression.

After Shovel Knight, Yacht Club Games strikes again: Mina the Hollower is a dense, inspired and surprising action-adventure.

The James Bond saga could hardly have ended up in better hands. IO Interactive has crafted an adventure that perfectly captures the spirit of the 007 movies with an engaging story, stunning settings, and gameplay that’s polished in every detail.

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies is crushed under the weight of its spiritual predecessor. In a desperate attempt to replicate the brilliance of Disco Elysium, the game confuses profound writing with exhausting, baroque verbosity, burying a potentially good espionage thriller under an avalanche of unearned infodumps and out-of-place philosophical digressions. Mechanically, unbalanced systems like 'Exert' and illogical stat checks actively encourage save-scumming, ruining the role-playing experience. It is ultimately saved from total failure by its gorgeous, oil-painted art direction and a few brilliant mechanical flashes like the Dramatic Encounters. A passable but soulless imitation that completely fails to carve out its own identity.

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is a charming game that reimagines the series’ formula by applying it to a fresh structure and innovative ideas, delivering a nonstop stream of creativity from start to finish. It’s a triumph of game design, offering an experience the whole family can enjoy.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is not only the best LEGO game TT Games has ever made, the most complete and focused in every aspect, but it's also a great Batman game, able to stand up to Rocksteady's Arkham games and hold its own, despite the obvious differences related to their target audiences. LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is and aims to be a universal game, suitable for everyone as is tradition for LEGO games, but it would be a grave mistake to dismiss it for that reason and not enjoy a celebration of so many years of adventures of a timeless hero, in a Gotham City that has never been so beautiful to explore in a game. Close your eyes and leave your fear behind, it's time to be Batman again, this time in cape and bricks!

Forza Horizon 6 does not reinvent Playground Games’ formula, but it may be one of its happiest and most refined expressions. Its Japan is a stunning, emotionally charged driving fantasy, balancing spectacle, exploration and quiet moments of beauty with a clearer progression and a slightly deeper driving model. Tokyo can feel a bit too clean and artificial at times, but the game remains huge, generous, accessible and constantly joyful.

The Rogue Prince of Persia doesn’t reinvent the roguelite genre, but bends it with style, pace and smart design into a formula that gives fresh identity to a historic franchise.

Neverness to Everness is an ambitious open-world gacha game overflowing with content, whose greatest strength lies in the city of Hethereau and the wide variety of activities it offers, ranging from exploration and management to combat. The gacha system is surprisingly generous compared to the standards of the genre and helps make the experience accessible even to free-to-play users, while the sandbox structure can keep players engaged for dozens of hours. On the other hand, some fairly evident limitations emerge: the combat system is functional but lacks depth and fails to compete with the best titles in the genre; the narrative struggles to find an engaging pace in this 1.0 version; and the cast of characters does not leave a particularly strong impression, either in terms of writing or character design.