Tomas Franzese's Reviews
Watch Dogs: Legion pushes current-gen hardware to the limit, and suffers for it.
With a solid story, tough but rewarding and immersive gameplay, and dynamic multiplayer modes, Star Wars: Squadrons stands out from every Star Wars game released over the last decade.
Even though Battletoads has its flaws, it is easily the most unique and interesting first-party title to arrive on Xbox in this current generation.
Sometimes games are forgotten for a reason. Destroy All Humans had ambitious ideas, but retreading old ground isn't the best way to showcase them.
Even with its rough edges, this is a very important game for the platform and sets a standard Stadia needs to follow with its exclusives going forward.
While some of the writing feels outdated and downright problematic, 'Catherine: Full Body' feels right at home on the system as one of the best ports to hit Nintendo Switch in a long time.
Anyone charmed by the original’s rough edges will enjoy this thorough and faithful reimagining of the cherished platformer, though it may have benefitted from a bit more time in the oven to polish out technical problems and make the multiplayer mode bearable.
To the Moon's Nintendo Switch remake has some problems but is still worth playing.
Star Ocean First Departure R is an underwhelming port of an excellent but often forgotten Square Enix JRPG.
Pokemon Sword and Shield are a lot of fun, even if the series is experiencing growing pains with the transition to home consoles.
Gylt is a solid but somewhat derivative adventure-horror game and an exclusive launch title for Google Stadia.
The Outer Worlds is an extremely well-written RPG and one of the best games of 2019.
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is a multi-console fun puzzle platformer that brings the series back to its roots.
Contra: Rogue Corps joins Bomberman: Act Zero and Hideo Kojima's firing as one of Konami's biggest disappointments.
Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avengers iX is a fast-paced but well-designed platformer that keeps up Inti Creates' streak of awesome games.
Deck13 and Focus Home Interactive make The Surge better, stronger, and faster than it was with this sequel.
GreedFall takes place in an amazing and intriguing world but fails to be interesting on the gameplay front.
PlatinumGames' Astral Chain is the most innovative action games in years and certainly one of the best games of 2019.
Despite some early game woes and a premise that doesn't fully pan out, Remnant: From the Ashes is a very unique game.
PS4 exclusive FMV game Erica has turned out to be one of the most worthwhile surprises from Gamescom 2019.