EGM’s Best of 2019: #2 Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice might be the most zen game FromSoftware has released, and that’s not because it features motifs of meditation and Buddhism and the other various nods towards spirituality and religiosity that comes with its immaculately realized Sengoku period Japanese setting. It’s zen because it overtly recognizes death, beginning with its title. When […]

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EGM’s Best of 2019: Michael Goroff’s Picks

When I first started at EGM, I was excited to make my Game of the Year list. I was an intrepid critic, eager to quantify the unquantifiable and rank the unrankable, extracting and sculpting just a tiny bit of order from all the chaos. Why appreciate things on a holistic level when we can rate […]

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