![]() What we said in our Fire Emblem: Three Houses review: 'This isn't the game to bring together fans of the old-spec Fire Emblem and those drawn in by the appeal of the new. Buy Monster Hunter Rise in the UK from ShopTo, and in the US from GameStop.Watch on YouTube If the hundreds of hours on offer in the base game for you aren't enough, the recently released Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion brings a new area and a whole new level of challenge. If you're already smitten with the series like I am? Well, Monster Hunter Rise might well be as good as video games can get.' If you've been put off by the challenge, the investment or even the action, Rise does its very best to smooth the path and open up Monster Hunter's charms to all. 'It's all enough to make me believe that this really might be the Monster Hunter for all, and as much as World pushed the series into the mainstream it's Rise that could yet propel it to be a phenomenon - and at the very least it'll earn the series some new fans along the way. It's just that those depths have been made a little easier to get to, which is surely no bad thing. And those depths are still there to be explored - with all that the additions bring, I'd argue that Rise is as deep as Monster Hunter has ever been. What we said in our Monster Hunter Rise review: 'Monster Hunter Rise encourages experimentation, pushing you to pick up a weapon type you might previously have neglected, or poke around in the depths to be found elsewhere. Buy Metroid Dread in the UK from Amazon, and in the US from GameStop.Watch on YouTube Metroid Dread was first teased at the turn of the century, which makes us feel incredibly old. The wait, I'm delighted to say, was somehow worth it.' How blessed we are to have Samus properly back, and what a marvel it is to be reminded how special Metroid can be. 'This is a modern Metroid, a 2D adventure delivered with triple-A panache, yet one that retains the grace and poise that's always marked the highlights of this series, and marked it out from its many imitators. What we said in our Metroid Dread review: 'Is this the best 2D Metroid to date? You'll have to give me more than a handful of replays and some sizeable distance for me to commit either way, but what I can say is this: here's a game that's worthy of the lineage, that's as exquisitely designed and that feels just as bold in its innovations as previous entries. Buy Kirby and the Forgotten Land from Amazon UK and Amazon US.Could this be the year of Nintendo's pink mascot? The Forgotten Land is fantastic, and we're getting Kirby's take on Fall Guys later this year. This is an absolute hug of a game, and quite likely Kirby's best outing yet.' 'Like its predecessors, Kirby and the Forgotten Land's an open-armed thing, and now more than ever before it's a game that's for absolutely everyone, the move to 3D platforming perhaps the most significant step forward in the series' history. The many ideas and new abilities are never quite as fully rounded as in obvious analogue Super Mario Odyssey the polish, likewise, isn't quite there (and neither is the framerate, it's worth pointing out, with the action sitting around 30fps rather than the more fluid modern Marios). What we said in our Kirby and the Forgotten Land review: 'It's tempting to say that with The Forgotten Land Kirby has graduated from second-tier character to starring in a game that rivals Mario in its pomp, but that's not quite the case. Buy OlliOlli World from Nintendo eShop UK and Nintendo Store US.Watch on YouTube OlliOlli World's another banger from roll7 - and we're soon to get Rollerdrome from the studio too. Pokémon Legends: Arceus is either this series' bare minimum, or its purest form. And how weirdly refreshing that is, compared to our artform's current, insatiable appetite for only adding more and more. 'Either way, this is a game crafted by subtractive sculpture. Is it overzealous budget cuts or pure, minimalist design? Is it empty, or is it filled with newfound nimbleness, of the kind that inspires all that wonder and awe precisely because so much of it has been chipped away? Even then there's a fraction of the trainer battles, nothing online, an option but no more necessity to trade. This is something new, and it's also Pokémon, a decades-old series, in its purest essence. ![]() What we said in our Pokémon Legends: Arceus review: 'There's an overpowering sense of novelty to Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Buy Nintendo Switch Sports from Amazon UK and Amazon US.Watch on YouTube We're still waiting on the update that'll bring golf to the package later this summer, but already there's a lot to like in Nintendo Switch Sports. ![]()
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