I love a good baseball game. Thankfully MLB The Show 22 is a great one. From its wide range of options to its clever adaptive difficulty, it's easy to have the hours tick away as you hit dingers and climb the ranks.

It's definitely a step up from last year's game, but it's pretty clear that the years of this franchise setting the bar for other sports games are behind us. The fixes they've made after last year's soulless debacle mean I'll be spending at least some time with it - which is a pretty big step up from what I was expecting when I started playing it.