Recent reviews by Phoenix

I didn't realize it until I touched down for the first time, but this is the gamefeel that 3D Sonic has been chasing for its entire existence. Don't miss this game. I can't put it down.

All engineers need a little tech debt to tackle, for enrichment purposes.

Best of the best

The perfect mix of casual Forza automatic car handling and the sim elements of an F1 game, this game is shockingly compelling and complex. Campaign mode is a joy. This is maybe the first time that I've convincingly felt like enemy racing AI really has it out for me after I badmouthed them in a press conference.

Feels like OG Overwatch but with a much more intimidating initial roster that's already growing incredibly quickly.

The perfect sequel to the perfect game.

Incredible

Genre-defying roguelite worth taking a gamble on.

MGS5 meets GTFO meets Gang Beasts with explosions.

TL;DR Well worth your time - smart, fun, detailed, gorgeous, and makes you focus on your timing and combat execution as much as your movement and routing across multiple runs through a single encounter.

I came into this from a quick brush with the trailers thinking it was Super Time Force x Hades, but left my first (short) session with it suitably impressed with what it is instead: an action puzzler where the goal is to work through each independent, hand-crafted combat puzzle in as little real-world time as possible. No randomization or rogue-lite/light elements (so far), no stacking up well-placed "remnants" to nuke a boss in record time (again, I'm barely clear of the tutorial here), but instead it has you focus on movement, combo execution, and manual rewinds to keep your total real-world time under each encounter's par. It feels almost closer to a more level-based speedrun game like Neon White in general structure and goals. The leaderboards for this will be crazy once people really get their hands on this.