THE MORNING LIST
It would be a shame to summarize this beginning of the video game year by the sales champion, Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy, a very uneven open world game adapted from the Harry Potter universe which has already sold more than 12 million copies. Whether you are a fan of horror, fishing, ecology, pizza, samurai or New Caledonia, the Pixels service at Monde brings you a very varied round-up of its favorite releases from the first quarter of 2023.
“Resident Evil 4 Remake”: the facelift of the living dead
The Japanese Capcom studios, great recyclers before the Eternal, had already entertained us in 2019 and 2020 with remakes of Resident Evil 2 et 3, transfiguring these games, now, it must be said, quite ancient. The remake of Resident Evil 4 seemed inevitable, but the project raised questions: was there something to modernize in this title, so modern when it was released in 2005 that it laid the foundations of the grammar of contemporary action games? It would seem so. Graphically sublime, denser, richer, and miraculously more coherent, this new version, which takes place in Spain, makes us rediscover, as if it were the first time, a jubilation mixed with anguish that we thought we knew by heart.
Available from €60 on PC, PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Series X and S.
“A Space for the Unbound”: back to high school
Our winter was softened by the ten hours spent in A Space for the Unbound. Not that this is a happy story, quite the contrary. But with its endearing characters and polished dialogues, this narrative game punctuated with puzzles is like a cozy cocoon. It mixes sensitive portraits of Indonesian high school students and a fantastic and dreamlike narrative, in a vein close to that of Japanese filmmaker Makoto Shinkai (Your Name). A pixel-art adventure as strong as teenage hearts are fragile.
Available from €20 on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Series X and S.
“Metroid Prime Remaster”: the exit from the labyrinth
A wind of nostalgia blew over the start of the year with the updated versions of three masterpieces from the 2000s: Dead Space (2009), Resident Evil 4 (2005) et Metroid Prime (2002). With the latter, Nintendo puts forward a title that revolutionized the series Metroid by successfully wearing it in 3D. This labyrinthine shooter thus places us for the first time in the helmet of the formidable warrior in armor Samus Aran. It still fascinates with its mysterious levels, stuffed with elements to analyze, its puzzles or its intimidating bosses. No blow of old on the horizon.
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