However, INSIDE and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night are fantastic single-player experiences that will keep even repeat players busy for at least a dozen hours or so, and those who have played neither will be blown away by each as though they were new.Update: Microsoft has now revealed the second wave of Game Pass games for July, and there are some seriously good indies in the mix this time around including some brand-new releases such as Venba as well as the arrival of the excellent Toem on Xbox. However, compared to Sony's concurrent offerings of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Sonic Mania for PlayStation Plus subscribers, the Xbox's offerings of late seem a bit on the cheap, more well-traveled side. Much less impressively, Games with Gold is also bringing players the 2007 Meet the Robinsons movie tie-in game, which was far from poorly received at the time but certainly lacks the staying power of its twenty-two-year-old counterpart.Īgain, July's Games with Gold is by no means Microsoft's best ever, but it does provide bored gamers a nice, paid-for oasis amid the annual summer drought of new releases.

Complementing the Xbox One's linear INSIDE is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the 1997 classic that served to cement the Metroidvania genre as it is today. Full to the brim with beautiful art, branching paths, and gameplay-morphing abilities that blew minds back in the days of the original PlayStation, Symphony of the Night has (mostly) aged like a fine, conspicuously blood-red wine.

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