Injustice 2 (Playstation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android) That’s a fun enough premise, but Gravity Rush 2 has a surprising level of ambition in its storytelling, using its bright, sunny world to prop up a fable about class and wealth, and how the concerns of the rich are often addressed at the cost of the poor.

Point in a direction, and that direction is now “down.” With this strange, specific power, Kat can approximate flight and becomes a superhero of sorts, eagerly helping everyone she crosses paths with while looking for her friend and fellow gravity shifter, Raven. You’re a girl named Kat, imbued with the power to change the direction gravity works. Remember the scene at the end of Toy Story, where Buzz Lightyear looks like he’s actually flying, but he’s really falling “with style?” Gravity Rush 2 is all about falling with style - and how good it feels. For much of it, we can thank a spectacularly resurgent Japan: After years of dire speculation about the state of Japanese game development, 2017 has opened with a string of modern Japanese classics, from Zelda to Resident Evil 7 to NieR: Automata, all wildly different, all immensely entertaining. It’s been at least a decade since video games had a year that started as strong as 2017 - here we are in June with a list of games that would do most years proud in December.

This week, Vulture is looking back at the best releases so far in 2017.

Best games of 2017 by google