Reviews of Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Star Wars Zero Company lead weekly highlights

Here is a brief digest of all our coverage from the past week, breaking down the entertainment industry in various ways.

• Onimusha: Way of the Sword review: five hours shy of a masterpiece. Onimusha has returned after 20 years with one of the best combat systems among modern action games
• Star Wars Zero Company review: the prime successor to XCOM. We look into how successful this campaign turned out and whether it is worth putting up with technical issues for it
• KOTAMON: My Sis Found A Super-Rare Card In Her Cereal Box, So I Became A Garbage Man To Find The Entire Collection And Earn $1,000,000. If you read the headline all the way to this point, congratulations! Now you know that this is a review of a relaxing indie game
• Saving a bride at the cost of your sanity: Twisted Tower review. The game’s mechanics and environmental elements resemble the BioShock series, and the supernatural madness happening in the story brings to mind the cult 1995 television series Goosebumps
• From ideal to troubled: how the second season of X-Men ’97 turned out. In the 1990s, an animated series about the X-Men was released, titled X-Men: The Animated Series. The show became a cult classic and received a continuation in 2024
• ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs: fixing electronics under yakuza terms. In this cozy jack-of-all-trades simulator, players calmly and methodically repair broken items
• Star Wars: Visions: The Ninth Jedi review: a cool idea with dull execution. This is a continuation of two episodes from the Visions anthology, a collection by various anime studios offering a fresh take on the universe
• Low-Budget Repairs review: cheap, janky, but repaired with soul in panel apartment blocks. There is an entire layer of simulators that invite players to become an ordinary blue-collar worker, such as a clerk, driver, cleaner, mechanic, or handyman
• Purely English schizophrenia: Servant of the Lake review. Players must collect items and use them to solve puzzles, but to find the solutions, they have to figure out the game’s insane logic, where every item can have an unexpected use
• A selection of the 10 best games released in 2016 [Gaming Archive]