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Review Information Time played: 20+ hours Platform: Switch Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a joyful family platformer for those who like gawking at cute, cuddly characters. It’s the children’s ball pit of Nintendo games, with every sharp corner padded over and every surface painted the colors of the rainbow. But that adorability is matched by its ambition. This is the boldest Kirby game yet, pushing the pink puffball into all manner of new dimensions and contorted shapes. For the most part, it works fabulously.  Kirby’s come to us, here in the real world, for his latest outing – an interdimensional vortex has hoovered up the residents of Planet Popstar and spat them out on an abandoned version of Earth. That leaves you to saunter across the vibrant remains of human civilization to collect Kirby’s missing Waddle Dee chums, while squaring off against the villainous Beast Pack who claim ownership of the planet. Most of that involves doing what Kirby does best – inhaling en...

Review Information Time played: 30 hours Platform: PC The fortress of Tzeentch is within sight. Our army has taken a beating from the Chaos God’s mutant fiends, and his twisted realm isn’t doing us any favors. It’s a fractured world of floating islands and arcane monoliths, all connected by a series of teleportation stones that will randomly transport my force somewhere across the map. If we can navigate the web of relays, we’ll make it to the stronghold for a final showdown with Tzeentch’s champion. If we can keep our army standing, we might just stand a chance. Throw in the swarms of cultists, horrors, and chariots chasing me across the campaign map, as well as the odd rival faction looking to muscle in on our march forward, and this tour across the Realm of Chaos is no walk in the park. It’s a frantic dungeon crawl; a race against time that embraces all the fantastical absurdities of Warhammer in a cataclysmic set piece. None of this is typical of a Total War game. What...