PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

I know the Super Smash Bros. purists don’t like Sony’s take on the mascot brawler, but I dumped an ungodly amount of time into PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. I preferred its more traditional fighting mechanics, and I honestly just love more of the PlayStation roster compared to most of Nintendo’s characters. Jumping around and brawling as Sly Cooper and Nathan Drake felt pretty good. And as a person who never liked Smash’s ring-out mechanic, I preferred the use of Super moves to finish an opponent off. It’s an acquired taste, and a lot of its roster felt like an ad, but I wish we could see the idea rebooted generations later now that Sony has so many new characters to build its roster.

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Ultimately, even in the worst of games (and there are plenty worse than the ones listed here) there’s something to love. There are nuggets of good ideas buried in a lot of bad ones, but sometimes we latch onto those good ideas and they’re enough to carry us through. Despite lifeless face animations and falling through the world multiple times, I had to play Mass Effect: Andromeda multiple times for a reason, right?