Games Inbox: MultiVersus Game of the Year 2022, Assassin’s Creed 1 remake, and Zelda RPG

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The Wednesday letters page feels bad for the negative press Saints Row is getting, as one reader takes a chance on Cyberpunk 2077.

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Surprise favourite I can’t say whether Saints Row is the worst game of 2022 because I haven’t played it, but I do feel bad for the developers as everyone piles onto it. There’s a certain type of person that loves to be able to rag on something just because they think everyone agrees it’s bad, and so they can be part of the team if they do the same. Maybe that’s not what’s going on but it’s how it seems to me.

So instead of joining the dogpile I thought I’d reverse things up and talk about a game that’s exceeded my expectations and that’s MultiVerus. If you’d told me a free-to-play Smash Bros. clone would end up being my game of the year I’d have thought you very strange, but it really is.

The action’s great, the characters are varied in both looks and abilities, and the whole thing feels very complete and well designed even though there’s hardly any maps and you have to unlock characters. I’m honestly shocked it turned out this well and that it’s not even that bad with trying to make you spend money on things.

It’s really opened my eyes to what a free-to-play game can be and proven that as unassailable as Nintendo seem to be it’s not impossible for others to make games that are as good. Maybe it won’t be my favourite by the end of the year, but it really is a great game.Dalglesh

Too good to be true A remake of Assassin’s Creed 1 may just rival The Last Of Us Part 1 for the least demanded remake ever! I’d be all up for Assassin’s Creed 2 but I understand the idea is to just to reuse assets from the main game, so it’s being done