Wii U

Affordable Space Adventures is a puzzle-adventure game that manages to make better use of the Wii U gamepad than any of Nintendo’s own titles on the system. Telling a story that confronts the exploitative practices of large corporations while offering innovative mechanics that create unique puzzles, the game only falters when it comes to its difficulty curve, which falls sharply …

Bayonetta is an insane action game with an unusual heroine and a very engaging combat system. Its tone is bonkers all around, with over-the-top set pieces and unhinged dialogue: it’s high-octane madness in videogame form… but one that’s being constantly interrupted by long cutscenes that tell a quite bare-bones story. The main character, Bayonetta, suffers from amnesia: she only knows …