The hit 2020 game Ghost of Tsushima has become the foundation for an anthology-style samurai open-world action series. Where Tsushima stumbled tying a story about lost honor to the invasion of Mongolian armies, Yotei tells a simpler, and better, tale by focusing on consistent, charismatic character writing.

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The release of Hollow Knight’s sequel, Silksong, makes this a perfect moment to revisit the original game from 2017.

Sequels give video game developers a chance to improve old ideas with new technology and design decisions. Many times, those ideas don’t pan out.

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A range of recent titles are proving that millennia-old, 2D hand-drawn art will endure in video games. Shinobi features stunning layered backgrounds depicting futuristic mash-ups of Japanese traditional and urban environments, including busy cityscapes dotted with digital and street artwork.

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Ghostface Killah and the developers of Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver explain the creative vision behind the hip-hop and anime-inflected action-adventure game.