Summer 2017's best video games: from Uncharte to Splatoon 2 and Tacoma

For aficionados, 2006's Final Fantasy XII was a high point in the three-decades-old series. Part-directed by Yasumi Matsuno, whose intricate stories remain some of Japan's best, it involves directing your squadron of fighters like a football manager, specifying tactics and parameters of behaviour from the sidelines. This HD remaster of the original includes not only higher resolution artwork, but also a rerecorded soundtrack and, most enticingly of all, an overhauled management system, via which you grow your team according to strategy or whim. Splatoon was a surprise, breakout hit for Nintendo: a competitive sports game from a young team of designers that bespeaks philosophical changes at the 127-year-old Japanese company. Two sides compete to cover the majority of the pitch in paint of their team's colour.