Throughout this week,
The A.V. Club has been running our picks for the best pop culture of the first half of 2021, a celebration of art made in the long shadow of the collective miseries of the last year-plus. Our games coverage is, of course, no different, with the list of our favorite titles of the year hitting the site tomorrow morning. But in looking over the picks one last time before putting the feature to bed, a question snuck into my mind, one that never lurks far from home: “Hey, am I being an asshole here?”
Don’t get me wrong: I’m proud of, and stand by, our list, which highlights some great titles, from indie games all the way through big-budget system-sellers. But it’s inevitable, when you look at any kind of Grand Summation Of The State Of Games with a bit of hindsight, for the gaps to quickly become glaring. And so I thought I’d use this week’s
Scarlet Nexus is damn good fun—once it gets up to speed
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Zelda: Breath Of The Wild 2 provokes as much dread as anticipation
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