The Monster Hunter series is on fire these days, with amazing expansions that keep adding more great content for fans. Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak follows that stellar trend, adding new areas, monsters, storylines and equipment for veteran or novice hunters to enjoy.
In this week’s Save State, Vincent enjoys some low-poly retro gaming goodness with Ex-Zodiac, a game that is still in early access on Steam but shows worlds of promise as you fight to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System from their oppressors in intense early-1990s arcade action.
Vincent is taking a break from all of his 16-bit gaming this week, but only because he is going even farther back into the retro tunnel. He breaks out 8-bit masterpieces in Vampire Survivors and Panzer Paladin.
Our reviewer Vincent Mahoney was able to obtain one of the amazing new Steam Deck gaming devices. He immediately loaded up his massive Stream library and put the Deck through its paces to find out if everyone should be adding a Steam Deck to their gaming collection.
Save State Columnist Vincent Mahony is a self-proclaimed Sonic the Hedgehog maniac. So being able to get four remastered Sonic games in the Sonic Origins package has got him spinning through loops, jumping across chasms and grabbing more gold rings than he has fingers to put them on.
Our Save State columnist used to dump rolls of quarters into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, so he was overjoyed to learn that the pizza-loving reptiles were back in the new Shredder’s Revenge game. Grab a slice and see how these heroes in a half shell have aged so well.
For fans of old school survival horror, like we used to get on the PlayStation 2, Tormented Souls is a blissful throwback to that time and genre, and exactly what we want in a modern take on classic survival horror.
This week our intrepid Save State columnist goes into full detective mode in Lacuna, a delightful sci-fi mystery point and click adventure with a great story and some of the most impressive pixel graphics that we have ever seen.
The Cyberpunk 2077 developers were able to redeem themselves after a disastrous launch by improving gameplay and stability for the game’s PC and next generation console versions. And now it seems Cyberpunk finally also runs well on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The visual novel Sakura Wars has demons roaming around Tokyo, and it’s up to a group of colorful heroes piloting giant robots to come to the rescue.
