Xbox just surprise-dropped a bunch of games on Game Pass, and at least two of them are bangers

Tying in with its Xbox Tokyo Recreation Present 2024 broadcast, Microsoft made a number of shock additions to Recreation Cross on Thursday: Classic Sq. Enix role-playing video games Legend of Mana and Trials of Mana, surrealist roll-em-up We Love Katamari, and an lovely and hilarious-looking new co-op recreation known as All You Want is Assist are all accessible now.

Moreover, it was revealed that the Last Fantasy Pixel Remaster sequence, compiling the primary six Last Fantasy video games, is now accessible on Xbox in the end — nevertheless it’s not included within the Recreation Cross drops, you’ll have to purchase it.

The picks of the brand new Recreation Cross additions are absolutely Legend of Mana and We Love Katamari — two wild back-catalog deep dives that deserve a direct spot in your obtain queue.

Legend of Mana is a singular action-RPG from 1999. The fourth recreation within the Mana sequence, it has a boldly open-ended, non-linear construction that allows you to generate the areas and quests as you play. Criticized on the time for not that includes as sturdy storytelling because the 1993 SNES basic Secret of Mana, it now seems far forward of its time. It’s a captivating curio that’s effectively value sampling on this devoted 2D remaster, new to Xbox right now.

Trials of Mana, which was beforehand by no means launched exterior of Japan, is the 1995 sequel to Secret of Mana — however the model added to Recreation Cross is the 3D remake from 2020, which obtained combined critiques.

We Love Katamari involves Recreation Cross in its remastered type: We Love Katmari Reroll + Royal Reverie, to provide it its exhaustive full title. That is the 2005 sequel to Katamari Damacy, made — considerably towards his will — by unique creator Keita Takahashi. However Takahashi’s ambivalence in regards to the mission comes by means of within the recreation in surprising, self-referential, and pleasant methods, because the Prince struggles to fulfill the clamoring calls for of followers as he wanders the world, rolling up big balls of stuff. If something, We Love Katamari is even higher than the indelible Katamari Damacy.

Lastly, All You Want is Assist is a brand new slapstick co-op puzzle recreation from Q-Video games, developer of the PixelJunk sequence. It options 4 player-controlled fluffy cubes collaborating — or attempting to, anyway — on issues like assembling themselves into an association of tetrominoes, or jostling a bunch of soccer balls right into a aim. It seems actually enjoyable.

All these video games can be found on Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X, and PC by way of Recreation Cross — besides We Love Katamari, which is on console Recreation Cross solely.