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Wolverine absolutely nails the most important things: the combat is brutal, fast, and surprisingly deep once you unlock more abilities, the boss battles are fantastic, and the story kept me invested all the way to the end. It genuinely made me excited for a sequel. Where it falls short is the excessive hand holding, almost nonexistent exploration, weak side content, inconsistent QTEs, and especially the length. I finished it in around 15 hours, which simply isn't enough for me to justify a $70 price tag. Wolverine is a very good game with some frustrating design choices that keep it from being truly a masterpiece.

Soul Quest is a fast paced 2D action platformer set in a Celtic inspired world where you play as Alys on a mission to challenge the gods and reclaim her husband’s soul. The game stands out with its detailed pixel art, strong atmosphere, and a story that keeps you engaged. The characters and voice acting add personality, while the Celtic-inspired soundtrack really helps bring the world to life. Boss fights also feel meaningful and tie well into the overall theme. Where the game struggles is in its balance and gameplay flow. Combat and platforming feel solid early on but become more frustrating as difficulty ramps up, with enemies taking too long to defeat while dealing heavy damage. This shifts the pacing into a repetitive pattern instead of encouraging creative play. The lack of defensive options limits how you can approach encounters, and combined with occasional clunky controls and platforming issues, it can lead to moments that feel unfair rather than challenging. Overall, it’s a game with a strong foundation and a lot of potential, but it needs better balance and refinement to fully deliver on what it sets out to do.

A charming and polished remake that successfully brings a classic Zelda adventure to modern audiences. Its tight world design, unique atmosphere, and strong presentation make it an enjoyable experience, especially with improved performance and quality of life upgrades. However, some dated design elements remain, particularly in progression and dungeon structure, which can feel more frustrating than engaging at times. While still a great game overall, its smaller scope and premium price hold it back from reaching true masterpiece status.

Pokémon FireRed on Switch delivers a timeless, tightly designed RPG experience that still holds up thanks to its strong core gameplay, smooth progression, and charming presentation. The $20 price point adds significant value, especially with previously limited event content like Ho Oh, Lugia, and Deoxys now fully accessible, making this one of the most complete versions of the game. However, the re-release falls short in modernization, lacking online trading and battling, meaningful quality of life improvements, and showing technical issues in docked mode. While it’s an excellent and accessible way to revisit a classic, the minimal enhancements keep it from reaching its full potential.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker delivers one of the most creative and tightly designed puzzle platforming experiences in years, taking a bold concept of removing jumping and turning it into a strength through brilliantly crafted levels and constantly evolving ideas. Each stage feels like a handcrafted miniature world filled with clever mechanics, strong visual charm, and rewarding exploration that keeps the experience fresh from start to finish. The game strikes an excellent balance between accessibility and depth, making it easy to pick up while still offering satisfying challenges for completionists. The Special Episode DLC builds on that foundation in all the right ways, adding new environments, mechanics, and tougher challenges that feel meaningful rather than repetitive, along with strong replay value and an enjoyable co op option that enhances the overall **** only real drawback is the lack of voice acting in cinematic moments, which slightly limits the emotional impact and keeps the presentation from reaching its full potential. Even with that minor issue, the game stands out as one of the best in its genre thanks to its creativity, polish, and consistently engaging design, making it well worth its price and a must play for fans of puzzle and platforming games.

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker delivers one of the most creative and tightly designed puzzle platforming experiences in years, taking a bold concept of removing jumping and turning it into a strength through brilliantly crafted levels and constantly evolving ideas. Each stage feels like a handcrafted miniature world filled with clever mechanics, strong visual charm, and rewarding exploration that keeps the experience fresh from start to finish. The game strikes an excellent balance between accessibility and depth, making it easy to pick up while still offering satisfying challenges for completionists. The Special Episode DLC builds on that foundation in all the right ways, adding new environments, mechanics, and tougher challenges that feel meaningful rather than repetitive, along with strong replay value and an enjoyable co op option that enhances the overall **** only real drawback is the lack of voice acting in cinematic moments, which slightly limits the emotional impact and keeps the presentation from reaching its full potential. Even with that minor issue, the game stands out as one of the best in its genre thanks to its creativity, polish, and consistently engaging design, making it well worth its price and a must play for fans of puzzle and platforming games.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup in Bellabel Park delivers a fun and creative 2D platforming experience that builds on an already strong base game. The original game shines with its inventive level design, vibrant visuals, and constant sense of variety, making it an enjoyable experience from start to finish. The DLC improves on one of the base game’s biggest weaknesses by introducing far more engaging and challenging boss battles, especially through rematches that finally add real difficulty for experienced players. Additional content like the Bellabel Park minigames and Toad Brigade challenges adds variety and gives players more ways to engage with the game beyond the main campaign .However, the experience is held back by a few key issues. The base game still suffers from a lack of voice acting and repetitive, overly easy boss encounters outside of the DLC improvements. While the expansion adds meaningful content, the “upgrade” aspect feels negligible on Switch 2, offering little noticeable improvement over the original version. The multiplayer-focused content, while fun, can lack long-term depth for solo players, and the overall package struggles to justify its higher price point, especially when compared to larger-scale titles.

Princess Peach Showtime is a creative and charming game that finally gives Peach her own spotlight, and it succeeds most in its presentation and originality. The theater setting is easily the standout feature, with every level feeling like a live stage performance complete with rotating sets, props, and a constant spotlight that gives the game a unique identity. The variety of transformations keeps the experience fresh, allowing Peach to take on multiple roles with different gameplay styles, and the overall charm and personality of the game make it easy to enjoy, especially for a more casual or younger audience. The boss fights also stand out as some of the more engaging moments, showing flashes of what the game could have been if it pushed its ideas **** the same time, the game is held back by its overly simple gameplay, which rarely evolves beyond its basic mechanics. While the variety is appreciated, many of the transformations feel underdeveloped and don’t reach their full potential, with some sections controlling poorly or lacking depth. The lack of challenge makes the experience feel too safe, and there’s little incentive to master any of the mechanics. Replay value is also a weak point, as going back to collect missed items feels tedious due to long levels and unskippable segments. On top of that, performance issues such as frame drops and inconsistent visuals take away from the overall polish, especially when compared to other Nintendo titles on the same system.Overall, Princess Peach Showtime is a fun and visually creative experience that benefits heavily from its presentation and variety, but it falls short of greatness due to shallow gameplay, limited depth, and technical shortcomings. It’s a solid game for its intended audience, but it leaves noticeable room for improvement.

Score: 5/10Yoshi’s Crafted World ends up being a very average experience that struggles to justify its full price. While the game has a solid foundation in its controls, with smooth movement and more precise egg-throwing mechanics, it fails to build anything meaningful on top of that. The biggest issue is the complete lack of challenge, which makes the gameplay feel shallow and repetitive after only a short time. Levels introduce ideas but rarely expand on them, resulting in a forgettable and underdeveloped **** visuals and level design also fall flat, lacking depth and cohesion, and the replay value is heavily padded by tedious collectible hunting that quickly becomes more of a chore than something rewarding. Despite a few moments of potential and a functional gameplay base, the game plays things far too safe and never evolves into something engaging.

Score: 8/10 Super Mario RPG Remake is a charming and faithful return to one of Mario’s most unique adventures. The game keeps the heart of the original intact while modernizing the visuals, music, and combat mechanics for a new generation. Its simple but engaging turn-based combat with timed attacks makes it very approachable for newcomers, while the quirky story, memorable characters, and constant variety in locations and boss encounters keep the adventure entertaining from start to finish. The updated soundtrack and polished presentation also do a great job bringing the classic experience to life on modern hardware.However, the remake does show its age in a few areas. The overall difficulty is fairly low, and the RPG systems are quite light with mostly linear equipment progression and limited character customization. The lack of voice acting also feels like a missed opportunity that could have added even more personality to the already charming cast. There are also minor technical issues such as occasional menu slowdowns.Even with those drawbacks, Super Mario RPG Remake remains a fun and creative adventure that captures the spirit of the original while introducing it to a new audience.

Pokémon Pokopia is one of the most surprising Pokémon spin-offs in years. By blending life-sim and building mechanics with the Pokémon universe, the game creates a relaxing yet addictive gameplay loop centered around restoring a ruined version of the Kanto region. Playing as a Ditto that can transform to use different Pokémon abilities, players rebuild habitats, construct communities, and slowly bring life back to a broken world. The Pokémon themselves are full of personality, interacting with the environment and reacting to the spaces you build, which makes the world feel lively and constantly evolving. The loop of gathering resources, building structures, and attracting new Pokémon becomes surprisingly engaging, even for players who normally aren’t drawn to cozy life simulation games. The environmental storytelling and nostalgic locations throughout Kanto also add emotional weight, especially for longtime fans who recognize familiar places in their ruined state.However, the game is held back by several issues that keep it from reaching its full potential. The visual presentation often feels underwhelming for a $70 release, with environments and textures that don’t always match the expectations of a modern premium title. The lack of voice acting also hurts the overall presentation, and while the game doesn’t need full voice acting, a narrator guiding key story moments would have added much more atmosphere. There are also mechanical frustrations later on, particularly with storage management across multiple regions, which can lead to unnecessary backtracking. Building controls and camera placement can also make precise construction more difficult than it should be.Despite these issues, Pokémon Pokopia is still a charming and genuinely fun experience. Its creative premise, engaging gameplay loop, and strong personality make it easy to spend hours rebuilding the Pokémon world. While the presentation and price keep it from being a masterpiece, the foundation is strong enough to deliver a memorable spin-off that both Pokémon fans and newcomers to the genre can enjoy.Final Score: 8/10

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon is a heartfelt and imaginative reimagining of the franchise that trades high-speed spectacle for a thoughtful, story-driven adventure. Its greatest strengths lie in its emotional storytelling, creative dual-character gameplay, and consistently satisfying combat. Controlling Cereza and Cheshire simultaneously adds a unique layer of coordination that feels rewarding once mastered, while puzzle-platforming segments and optional challenge trials keep the experience varied and engaging throughout. Boss encounters are inventive and cinematic, reinforcing the bond between the two leads. The writing is charming and often genuinely funny, the character development is strong, and the soundtrack beautifully blends whimsical folk influences with sweeping orchestral themes to elevate both quiet and climactic moments. Exploration within Avalon Forest feels purposeful, with secrets and collectibles that add depth rather than **** primary drawback is the divisive art style, which, while bold and distinct, can appear visually unappealing and may not resonate with fans expecting the sleek aesthetic of the mainline entries. This stylistic choice likely limited its broader appeal despite the game’s overall quality. Even so, the emotional impact, gameplay creativity, and strong presentation outweigh its visual missteps.Score: 9 out of 10

God of War Sons of Sparta delivers a strong character driven adventure that expands the lore in meaningful ways while offering deep and satisfying combat. The relationship between Kratos and Deimos is one of the biggest highlights, adding emotional weight and humanity to a version of Kratos we rarely get to see. The environments are visually impressive, the monster design is excellent, and the world feels cohesive and rewarding to explore. Combat offers a solid amount of customization through spear upgrades, god abilities, and defensive tools that reward precision and smart play. Boss fights are engaging and demand focus, while progression systems feel meaningful without being bloated. At a thirty dollar price point, it provides substantial value for fans of the **** main drawbacks come from the character art style, as human models and facial animations do not match the quality of the environments and creature designs, creating a noticeable visual inconsistency. The other limitation is that cooperative play is locked behind endgame content, which may disappoint players hoping to experience the campaign alongside a friend from the start.Overall, despite those issues, Sons of Sparta stands as a fantastic experience for fans of metroidvanias and action adventures, earning a strong 8 out of 10.

Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 remain two of the most imaginative 3D platformers ever created, and their creativity, gravity bending level design, and unforgettable orchestral soundtrack still shine years later. The visual upgrade is noticeable, with cleaner textures and sharper resolution helping these cosmic worlds pop on modern displays. Core level structure is tight and focused, and the charm that made these games iconic is very much intact. However, this bundle shows its age in key areas. The controls feel inconsistent at times, especially during motion based sections where Mario can spin or move unpredictably. The camera remains restrictive and outdated, and the stop start mission structure breaks momentum compared to modern platformers. While the games themselves are historically significant, the lack of major quality of life improvements and the premium price tag make the package harder to justify. Still excellent at their core but not fully modernized, this bundle earns a solid 7 out of 10.

Mario Tennis Fever delivers some of the most chaotic and genuinely fun multiplayer the series has seen in years, with tight, responsive controls, a huge roster, creative Fever Rackets, and tons of unlockables that keep matches feeling fresh both locally and online; it’s an absolute blast as a couch party game and one of the best family-friendly experiences on Switch 2. That said, the short and underdeveloped single-player mode and lack of full voice acting feel light for a $70 release, especially when the same game is priced around $52 in Japan and other Asian regions, making the Western price tag harder to justify. If you can find it closer to $60, it’s much easier to recommend, but at full price the regional disparity and thinner solo content hold it back. Overall: 7/10.

Tokyo Scramble had an interesting concept with stealth horror, no weapons, environmental traps, and different enemy types based on sight and sound, but the execution completely falls apart. The gameplay is rigid and built around trial and error rather than skill, the AI feels inconsistent, and most levels turn into repetitive memorization instead of tense survival. Visually, it looks dated for a Switch 2 exclusive, with blurry textures and awkward animations. The story is tonally bizarre and hard to take seriously, and the experience becomes boring long before it ends. It runs fine and is not broken, but functioning is not enough. A disappointing exclusive that never lives up to its premise.

The combat, visuals, story, NPC voice acting, level design, and boss battles were all amazing. But the game still falls short because they completely botched the open-world design, and the lack of voice acting for Samus is a noticeable miss.

This game has a total identity crisis. It tries to be a racing game, a party game, and an arena battler — but it doesn’t truly excel at any of them. There are far better options on Switch 2 if you want a focused experience. The only reason it lands at a 7 is because the music and visuals are absolutely carrying it. Without those, this would easily be a 5.

Amazing gameplay, story, and roster no question. But unfortunately, the visuals just don’t meet the standard for a $70 game. Handheld mode runs buttery smooth, but once you dock it, the cutscenes get noticeably blurry. And I’ve got to be honest Zelda’s voice acting was rough and completely failed to deliver the emotional weight those scenes needed.

game did not have enough quality content to justify a 70 dollar price tag. game was way to easy. and no full dialogue voice acting for a 70 dollar game.

game was overpriced. its barley worth 50 dollars. the open world is boring. they ruined the grand prix with the highway tracks. Half the rooster is trash

story was boring. the combat system was not polished and attacks would miss when they should hit. the graphics and art style was terrible for a 70 dollar game. no voice acting. no new Pokémon or regional variants. most of the new Megas were trash the best ones for the kalos starters are lock behind a paywall and raichu mega are cut content for the expansion. the highs are the soundtrack is amazing and the mega boss battles were amazing when the combat wanted to work