GamePlayer
Jess Nguyen
Reviews editor. Melbourne-based critic covering RPGs, roguelikes, and anything with a decent character creator.
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Reviews
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Ghost of Yotei Review: Atsu’s Revenge Is Sharper Than Jin’s Honour
Sucker Punch swapped Jin’s honour lecture for a colder hunt. Ezo is the reason to stay. The middle act is the reason the score is not a 9.
5 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
Reviews
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Metroid Prime 4 Review: Beyond Is Prime When It Leaves the Desert
Retro remembered how to build a room. Then it asked Samus to farm a desert so the motorcycle would have a job.
5 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
Reviews
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Pokémon Legends Z-A Review: Lumiose Finally Makes Pokémon Feel Like a City
Game Freak shrank the map to one city and accidentally remembered how to make a Pokémon game you finish on purpose.
5 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
Reviews
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review — Grief, Paint, and Perfect Parries
Sandfall's debut plays like a studio that has been alive for twenty years. It has not. That is the scandal.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Opinion
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Death Stranding 2's Australia Map: What Kojima Invented, What We Recognised
On the Beach is set in Australia. It is not a tourism board. Here is the local read of Kojima's chiral continent.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Death Stranding 2 Review: Kojima Walks Australia, Then Asks You To Connect It
The sequel is still a walking sim with a blockbuster budget — funnier, meaner, and uncomfortably close to home.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Reviews
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Monster Hunter Wilds Review: Capcom Sands the Edges — and Some of the Teeth
The hunts feel better than they ever have. The walls you used to climb are lower. That is both the pitch and the complaint.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Reviews
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Silksong Review (2026): Pharloom Punishes, Then Pays Off
Team Cherry's sequel is denser, meaner, and more generous than Hallownest — if you can survive the first dozen deaths.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
Videos
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Video: How Skyrim's Modding Scene Outlived the Game
A feature-length look at the load orders, Discord servers, and stubborn art that keep Tamriel in 4K.
11 Nov 2024 · 1 min read
Previews
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Preview — A Second Continent of Secrets
The Land of Shadow plays like a new campaign, not a map pack. First impressions from the opening plateau.
10 June 2024 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Balatro Review: The Poker Night That Ate the Year
A deckbuilder that makes Texas Hold'em look like a tutorial. One more ante. Then we sleep. Then we lied.
21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Reviews
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Baldur's Gate 3 Review: The RPG Benchmark
Larian shipped a role-playing game so dense it made the rest of the genre look unfinished. Honour Mode optional. Shame not included.
14 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Elden Ring Review: Become Elden Lord
FromSoftware opened the gate and somehow kept the mystery. The Lands Between is the decade's defining adventure.
2 Mar 2022 · 2 min read
Reviews
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Skyrim Anniversary Review: Still the Elder Scrolls
Fifteen years on, Tamriel is still where we go when a new RPG misses. The bugs are folklore. The mountains still work.
19 Nov 2021 · 1 min read
Reviews
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The Binding of Isaac Review: Explore the Gruesome World
Edmund McMillen's basement roguelike is still one of the meanest, funniest, and most replayable games on PC. We went back into the tears.
18 Nov 2019 · 2 min read