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  • Mar 18, 2025 | worthplaying.com | Redmond Carolipio

    Assassin's Creed: Shadows is an experience that was enriching, beautiful, and at times, gloriously confusing. I poured in roughly 65 hours of play, and it was time that — for the most part — felt like a strong gust of wind through a field of cherry blossom trees. I was enraptured, even with the full knowledge that this installation of the series generally followed the path of the ones that came before it: The hero embarks on a journey(s) to extinguish a grand list of enemies who have done wrong.

  • Oct 9, 2024 | worthplaying.com | Redmond Carolipio

    Games bearing the NBA 2K label, especially in the last few editions, offer up a yearly challenge for anyone trying to evaluate it at a critical level. What does one say about a sports game that's already nailed practically every aspect of the sport it covers down to the very grain? The answer, found in NBA 2K25, is to do more. As anyone associated with professional sports will tell you, every great athlete must do everything they can do stay on top.

  • Jul 26, 2024 | worthplaying.com | Redmond Carolipio

    PS5 Review - 'EA Sports College Football 25' In EA Sports College Football 25 experience explosive gameplay variety across 134 FBS schools and immerse yourself in the iconic atmospheres of college football as you chase college greatness. I'm having a hard time sitting down to write about EA Sports College Football 25. It's not because I can't find the words. I just want to get back to playing it.

  • Jul 8, 2024 | worthplaying.com | Redmond Carolipio

    I was expecting to go through an emotional buzzsaw — again — when I signed up to take a look at The Last Of Us: Part II - Remastered. What I wasn't expecting was to be eventually educated on game theory in between rounds of some good ol' fashioned survival shooting action. I wasn't expecting pure fun.

  • Apr 25, 2024 | worthplaying.com | Redmond Carolipio

    Stellar Blade grabs the eyes and cramps the hands. It wants you to stop and stare — and then fight like hell. It will probably succeed in getting you to do all these things. Whether you think, "Whoa," or roll your eyes at some of the stuff you see afterward — I did both — it's impossible to gloss over the aesthetically confident presentation of the waifu-fantasy heroine locked into several dances of flash and fire against monsters seemingly designed in a malice factory.

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