Bryan Vitale

“While Trails into Reverie does serve as a strong epilogue to multiple in-game story arcs, it also spends a significant amount of time spinning its wheels.”

“The Outbound Ghost is a bland and confusing game that is as boring as it is pretty.”

“Expeditions: Rome is an impressive tactical RPG with captivating strategic combat, as well as a lot more heart than expected.”

“Wrath of the Righteous is an extensive and ambitious RPG with plenty of spectacle, but a bloat of gameplay systems and unrefined ideas weigh down the experience.”

“Underneath its colorful, bubblegum exterior is one of the most inventive and challenging strategy RPGs I've played in a long time.”

“Bug Fables proudly wears its Paper Mario inspirations on its sleeves and it in many ways stands as my favorite interpretation of the style yet.”

“Wastelanders won't convince anyone who thought Fallout 76 was irredeemable to begin to believe otherwise, it's simply not enough of a marked improvement to wholesale change many people's minds. For those that left a sliver of a chance for redemption, however, it's one small, wobbly step in the right direction.”

“This brief tactical RPG blends puzzle-like gameplay and deck-building mechanics in interesting ways.”

“This love letter to the Final Fantasy Tactics series mimics its inspirations very closely, but manages to be a solid SPRG in its own right.”

“This souls-inspired roguelite frustrates just as often as it entertains.”

“Deadfire's last DLC pack is easily the strongest, though still a bit short.”

“A huge, imaginative CRPG that could have stood toe to toe with the genre's best, but instead finds itself crudely stapled together, clearly not ready to be released.”

“Another lackluster DLC for Pillars of Eternity II.”

“Beast of Winter is a strong self-contained story that expands on some of the background lore of the series, but just feels all too short and limited.”

“A lot of work has been put into Final Fantasy XV's 2018 revision, and it's the best version of the game...so far.”

“An excellent port that makes the PC Version the definitive way to play the game.”

“A fun additional chapter for Tyranny, but suffers from the same weaknesses.”

“An amazing entry in the Trails series that makes fantastic strides to the series in unconventional ways.”