From robot-dinosaurs and hypersexual witches to epic clashes with mythological Gods and exquisite fantasies of supernatural wars, 2022 had it all – including a certain word game. Our critics pick the best
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Sometimes when a beloved thing from the past comes roaring back again, you rather wish it had stayed safely coddled in your memory. But happily, Return to Monkey Island is full of old friends we’re delighted to see again. Full of piratical point-and-click puzzles, affectionate writing and voice acting that raises a smile.17.
: Neon White’s chaotic presentation and somewhat puerile script conceals a game of taut design and striking imagination.Nintendo’s colourful, family ink-splattering shooter might not be bringing anything that new to the table, but it’s just SUCH fun, and so inimitably stylish. A quietly innovative single-player adventure brings a creative intellectual challenge alongside the usual turf wars and chaotic shootouts.
: None of these sports would be enough to sustain a game alone, but together, and paired with Nintendo’s charming, slick aesthetic and brain-infesting music, they are the makings of a good time.If you fed the weirder bits of the Book of Revelation and a bunch of action anime series to an AI, you’d probably come out with something like Bayonetta 3.
: It feels like a luxury to play a game that isn’t constantly prodding you towards the next objective, and that instead allows you the space to daydream.A magical-realist lament about a real-life small town in Louisiana that’s been swallowed by the oil industry, this downbeat narrative game is about what its protagonist leaves behind when she abandons her home town, and what is – and isn’t – worth coming back to, and trying to salvage.
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