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The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is proof that Team Asano can move with surprising confidence even outside its comfort zone. Exploration is excellent, the game world constantly inspires a sense of wonder, and the system built around different time periods adds depth to every discovery.

EA Sports UFC 6 is the best entry in the series to date. After a three-year wait, the franchise returns with meaningful gameplay improvements that make every fight feel more intense, realistic and rewarding, while preserving the solid foundations of its predecessor. The result is a content-rich and highly polished MMA experience that will keep both dedicated fans and newcomers engaged for countless matches.

Mina the Hollower is an action RPG that takes the best of Zelda, Castlevania and the Soulslike genre without ever feeling like a copy. Yacht Club Games builds a dense, challenging, incredibly smart and personality-driven adventure, capable of turning every screen into a continuous discovery.

After all this lengthy analysis, the only thing that remains is that IOI has crafted an excellent action adventure, with a strong focus on stealth, which represents the perfect launchpad for a rebirth of the 007 franchise in video game format. First Light works, there's no doubt about it. The story is compelling, the new Bond characterization fits perfectly with today's audience (even if many longtime fans will surely not appreciate it), and the universe written by Ian Fleming has been treated with due respect, paying homage to it in a way that's never cloying and refreshing it where necessary. Is it the perfect game for James Bond fans? That's not for me to say; we'll leave that difficult decision to the fans. For my part, however, I can tell you that if you were looking for a very good story-driven action game, dedicated to the 007 universe, First Light will not disappoint you, even if it is undeniable that IOI could have done more in many respects, but since tomorrow never dies, we will see if in the next chapter by IOI the software house will be able to fully express its immense, and by now well-known, potential.

If you're willing to go back to being a child and let yourself be carried away by the logic that governed your childhood games, when the joy of discovery and the most surreal imagination ruled supreme, then Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is the game for you. For everyone else, you can safely knock a couple of points off this review's score and keep it in mind exclusively as a gift for a much younger player, who will absolutely love figuring out how to "torture" a poor little smiling flower by swallowing it, throwing it in the mud, launching it down a hill, or making it ride Yoshi through a flowery field.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is both the culmination of a formula TT Games has refined over twenty years and the moment that formula stops being enough on its own. The game doesn't simply reproduce what has always worked: it dismantles it, rebuilds it with new materials, and attempts something the LEGO games had never genuinely tried before. To be a Batman game in the fullest sense of the term.

Forza Horizon 6 is not simply the realization of every gearhead's forbidden dream of tearing through Japan; it is the ultimate expression of the arcade racing genre. Playground Games has done a monumental job, taking an already excellent gameplay foundation and enriching it with a map of astonishing size and diversity. The vibrant return of the seasons, the inclusion of a pulsating metropolis like Tokyo, and the incredible depth offered by building your own personal hub make it the definitive Forza Horizon.

MachineGames handled the port internally, without relying on specialized third-party studios; while the result is generally convincing, it involves certain technical choices that are worth knowing about before making a purchase.

Mixtape knows what it wants to be, and it succeeds often enough to make it worth recommending. Beethoven & Dinosaur has crafted a small but sincere work where music doesn't accompany the story but generates it.

Directive 8020 is the game Supermassive fans have been waiting for since Until Dawn redefined what this format could achieve. The Cassiopeia works as a setting precisely because it holds together elements that usually cancel each other out: pristine aesthetics and visceral body horror, late-nineties sci-fi optimism and deep cosmic dread, television-quality acting and the sudden brutality of a game that does not warn you before it hurts you.