In an ideal world, Konami would’ve allowed continued development of Kojima Productions’ Silent Hills and put the franchise back on track some ten years ago, ready to go toe-to-toe with Capcom’s Resident Evil remakes. Skip forward to this week, and the Japanese publisher has made the first steps at putting things right – the Silent Hill 2 remake, developed by Blooper Team, has been very well received by critics, currently boasting an 87% Metacritic score. It’s easily the next best thing to Kojima’s Silent Hill we never received back in 2015.
It seems SEGA also has a hit on their hands with the Atlus developed RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio, which shares Persona’s lavish presentation. It takes place in a medieval fantasy realm that mirrors the real world, with the storyline centred on a royal election. Look out for it on PC, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series this Friday. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO is set for release on the same day, intended to be a spiritual successor to the Budokai and Tenkaichi games, providing an astonishing 180 playable characters – including faces from the DBZ movies.
We aren’t out of the RPG woods yet. Blizzard are launching the Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred expansion, which adds a Spiritborn class, new PvE co-op challenges, and more recruitable mercenaries. Then there’s PQube’s immeasurably more colourful airborne adventure Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire, influenced by SEGA’s cult classic Skies of Arcadia.
If you prefer adventures more melodramatic, there’s Last Time I Saw You – a coming-of-age tale involving a village with a secret – and the tear jerking To the Moon, which sees two doctors trekking through a dying man’s memories.
Then there’s the 16-player co-op FPS Starship Troopers: Extermination – which was well received on PC – a belated Switch conversion of the above average giant robot brawler UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves, and the child friendly racing/combat hybrid TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials from Outright Games. LEGO Harry Potter Collection also gains a native PS5/Xbox Series release.
As it’s spooky season there are a few horror games too, including the 16-bit style Camp Sunshine, an Xbox release of the puzzle-based My Big Sister: Remastered, the monstering capturing Necro Story, and the H. P. Lovecraft interactive story collection Dagon: Complete Edition. Cthulhu definitely deserves a break from the gaming world.
New release trailers
Silent Hill 2
Metaphor: ReFantazio
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Starship Troopers: Extermination
Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
Last Time I Saw You
Sky Oceans: Wings For Hire
UFO Robot Grendizer: The Feast of the Wolves
To the Moon
TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials
Camp Sunshine
Dagon: Complete Edition
Necro Story
My Big Sister: Remastered
New multiformat releases
- Metaphor: ReFantazio
- DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
- Starship Troopers: Extermination
- LEGO Harry Potter Collection
- Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred
- Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire
- Last Time I Saw You
- Nick Jr. Party Adventure
- TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials
- Rogue Sentry
- Camp Sunshine
- Tents and Trees
- To the Moon
- Cats and Seek: Osaka
- Heavy Cargo – The Truck Simulator
- Amanda the Adventurer
- Dagon: Complete Edition
- Mimi the Cat: New Friends
- Spiral
New on PSN
- Silent Hill 2
- Wingspan
- A hole new World
- Survival: Fountain of Youth – Captain’s Edition
- Hyper Rider
New on Xbox Store
- Necro Story
- Mr. T-Shirt
- The Sekimeiya: Spun Glass
- Casual Sport Series: Hockey
- Knight And Mourning
- My Big Sister: Remastered
- Torii Guardian
New Switch retail releases
eShop round-up coming Thursday
- Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire
- Square Enix Final Fantasy I-VI Collection Anniversary Edition
- UFO Robot Gredizer
- A Tiny Sticker Tale – Magic Book Edition
Next week: NEW WORLD: AETERNUM, Just Dance 2025 Edition, Crow Country, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, RetroRealms, Unknown 9: Awakening, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed, Aaero2, Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition, Undisputed, Nikoderiko: The Magical World, Squirrel with a Gun, Arsene Lupin – Once A Thief, Arizona Sunshine Remake, Purpose 1951, Neva, 8-Bit Adventures 2, Beyond Border, The Seed: Unit 7