![]() Why should you play it? Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been atop the esports FPS genre for almost a decade now, with nothing coming close to taking the crown. What is it? An esports-focused PC FPS that takes the refined shooting mechanics from Counter-Strike and combines them with the hero-ability style gameplay from Overwatch. But the game's moxie, wit, and vibrant beauty help Ooblets carve out a space that's entirely its own. Sure, Ooblets will feel familiar - like Animal Crossing New Horizons, it tasks you with farming (except it's all nonsense items) and like Pokemon, it tasks you with battling (except it's not fighting, it's dancing). Then there's its beautifully bespoke art style that seems tangible, like the designers meticulously cut out and layered pieces of paper on top of each other. ![]() It offers a quirky mix of youthful humor with adult cynicism, of wide-eyed naivete with narrow-eyed jadedness, all with a side of dance battles - making it one of those games that can be played and thoroughly enjoyed by all ages. Except Ooblets provides that much-needed mental break in a completely unique way, pulling from genres to create a lovely tapestry of gameplay. ![]() Why should you play it? Everybody needs a mental break, and Ooblets, like many of 2020's games, provides. What is it? A farm-simulating, creature-collecting, dance-battling injection of serotonin that's got style in spades Beautifully updated by Bluepoint, it's fascinating to play what is basically the original game with next-gen skin stretched over its bones - all the original code still runs under the fancy visuals and it's fascinating to see how well the origins design has held up 11 years later. Here, though, there's a clear and a more forgiving route through the game for people who want to give it a try. The famous difficulty of the series comes from not understanding that, and as the games got more complicated and ambitious it became harder to see those paths. Challenging but more approachable, with a smaller, more linear approach to progression where you can see it's all just an elaborate puzzle box to solve - get this item from here, so you can get there, gaining a tool to access the next challenge and so on. ![]() As the first game in the Souls series, it's a simpler exploration of what the games would become. Why should you play it? This is actually the perfect entry into the world of FormSoftware. ![]()
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