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Metroid Dread suffers from some minor grievances, but overall it is a remarkable achievement in not just resurrecting a dormant and beloved series, proving its authority in the genre it inhabits, or exhibiting the kind of airtight design we’d expect from a title of this calibre. It is a remarkable achievement because it is one of those few rare games that sets itself an atmospheric goal and launches it towards and through the stratosphere. This, here, is one of 2021’s very best games - we’re always in for a treat when Samus returns.

“Temtem” has had a rough run. After a month in the limelight, it was left in the dark for two and a half years, with only a fraction of its players returning for each expansion, and fewer still continuing to play between them. But Crema has persisted, and in doing so, has put out what is arguably the strongest non-Pokémon monster-tamer on the market.