We’ve entered a strange season of reviews. A time of sudden, pandemic-induced delays, and games taking their last chance to be out before Christmas 2020. A time of next-gen console launch games sheepishly showing up on PC too (and looking all the better for it). A time of hopeful indie games growing increasingly bizarre as they fight to stand out from the crowd – or just go viral on Twitter. A time of Harmonix relaunching the music game, again (or perhaps just a Mouth Sounds simulator). A time of April Fools jokes becoming fullfledged Yakuza sequels. And, most of all, a time of games scrambling to stay out of the way of Cyberpunk 2077 as its release date drifts month by month, while Ubisoft releases the year’s three biggest open world games within a six week span like a squid squirting a cloud of ink to dissuade an oncoming predator.