Sony’s best-in-class baseball game is an annual highlight. And as far as I can tell, that’s the greatest power in videogames.- Cameron Kunzelman

The power of Kingdom Hearts and all of its weirdness is contained in its implosive capability, its ability to be totally separated from all narrative responsibility.

When comparisons between Kingdom Hearts and other franchises come up as a way of giving some cover to the keyblade game, I bristle. With some time, energy, and emotional investment it springs to life.- Cameron Kunzelman But like the octopus pretending to be a rock, Metro Exodus is a brilliant creature in the guise of a worse one. It is a great game that had to smear itself in a layer of whatever-nothing to convince you that it belonged in a certain genre. It is messy, full of stock situations, and doesn’t quite work in all instances, but it is also experimental and willing to be a little unpolished if it creates a situation or a series of moments that are memorable and compelling.

Metro Exodus gave me the same feeling that I had playing the first-person games of the early ‘00s.

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