Realistically, in the late 90s and early 2000s, they had great Pokemon games for GB and GBA, but that was a different time with different appetites. The last few titles from this team suggested that the moment had come to move on to new tasks, or that they wanted "something new and something wild." For all of you who expected Game Freak to make new Pokemon games just on other platforms with the same mechanics and "more serious graphics," you might be disappointed.

Well, six years later, someone has clearly opened their wallet. In other words, Mortal Shell 2 is mostly everything you want from a sequel: bigger, more content-rich, more practical, and more ambitious in every respect. The emphasis is mostly on the good, because with a bigger budget and bigger ambitions, Cold Symmetry managed to expand almost every good part of the original while also keeping a few problems that I had hoped they would leave behind in 2020.

The plot starts before James becomes an agent. After a failed mission in Iceland, Bond ends up under MI6's wing, goes through training on Malta, and gets his first real assignment with future colleagues. The training lasts longer than expected, as shown through a cinematic montage. It works as Bond's origin story and a tutorial. I wish this approach had been executed even better this time.