Like Jam, NBA Playgrounds is two-on-two arcade-style action. Rather than selecting a team, though, you’re free to choose any two players that you’ve unlocked. From there you’ll enter tournaments to face sets of two-man teams. These ascend in difficulty, concluding with a “boss” team that contains better players. Take them down and you’re on to the next one.
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Mr. Shifty is a teleporting, ultra-strong, silent protagonist who shares the same problem-solving philosophy as Doomguy: kill it until you win. The essence of Mr. Shifty boils down to punching your way through hordes of minions while not dying. Sounds simple, right?
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Things begin with you, as Edith Finch, returning to your childhood home following the death of your mother. She left you a key but didn’t tell you what it opened, so your only recourse is to explore the Finch estate and find what your mother wanted you to see.
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Sometimes it’s difficult to solve a puzzle because the object involved is literally just outside of the screen — as in, you have to walk there to trigger a scroll and there’s no real impetus to do so. You’ll also get in the occasional adventure-game grind of trying to use every object in your inventory to solve a particular puzzle, though Full Throttle isn’t nearly as migraine-inducing as some other titles from the era.
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The Walking Dead in all formats has become synonymous with “jerky people doing bad things to nice people.” Sometimes this plays out for a gripping story about humanity. Other times, it’s a bit of masochistic narrative. TellTale’s latest episode is somewhere in the middle, and there are several different variables at play here.
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A few years ago, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy exploded from cult comic book to film mega-hit. TellTale Games very smartly picked up the license to tell a story in this universe, and its arrival is welcome simply because most TellTale adventures are very grim in tone.
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The Dark Souls series is lauded for its exacting, punishing gamelplay. Styx tends to follow that strict formula, where stealth is essentially the only option. This is not like Assassin’s Creed or Metal Gear Solid in which you can muscle your way through; very rarely will prolonged fights do much for you, and the much-improved AI will find you more often than not.
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