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Martha Is Dead weaves a heartbreaking narrative that sticks with the player long after the credits have rolled. The setting, occupied Italy during the final year of WWII, coupled with Giuliana’s father being a German general and mother an Italian, makes for a unique dynamic that pairs perfectly with the trauma delving dreamlike horror. As things open up and you begin to discover secrets, more areas, hidden tunnels, it’s easy to get fully immersed in Giuliana’s haunting story. Set in the lush countryside in Italy, the game is absolutely beautiful and exploring the house and the land around it really feels like an adventure. (Marc Kaliroff)Īn almost mesmerizing tale of compassion and madness, Martha Is Dead is an incredible experience.

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By the time the player reaches Aloy’s final confrontation with her newest foe, they will only be in awe over the story’s direction and how the Horizon series has continued to take extraordinary and ambitious routes to isolate itself from the rest of PlayStation’s marvelous first-party lineup. Like last time, players will be riding on robots, firing arrows, and placing weapons meticulously as they fend off the hoards of machines that lie in wait across the west coast of America. The Nora Tribe hero’s endeavors into the west beautifully go off without a hitch as Horizon’s second entry suffers only minor setbacks under a manipulable journey.īetween the thrill of the hunt and the need to continue her heroic quest to save what remains of society, Horizon Forbidden West launched Aloy into a fulfilling direction. While it may still contain some of the problems Zero Dawn fell victim to, Forbidden West offers a true next-generation experience with a refined follow-up to Aloy’s original story that visually and technically has a lot to showcase. Overall it accommodates for the response of its predecessor while continuing to dig deep into why fans first fell in love with the series. Horizon Forbidden West properly articulates a fantastic open-world sequel to Zero Dawn.

**** Image: Sony Interactive Entertainment Horizon Forbidden Westįive years after Aloy became one of PlayStation’s modern icons, Guerilla Games was ready to show audiences that their heroine’s thrilling hunt still has much more to offer. We will be updating the list again at the end of December. Please note, that only games released before July 1 st were eligible for this list.

With that said, what follows is a list of the 20 games we’ve championed the most over the past six months. As with any publication, our staff simply can’t keep up with the number of games released each week, but we rely on each other to decide what we should spend our valuable time playing and what games we should maybe avoid. With so many new releases, we felt now would be a good time to publish a list of our twenty favourite video games of 2022 so far.