Rafael Torres

7+ years action-adventure coverage, bilingual gaming journalist, 47 open-world titles 100% completed

Rafael Torres has a complicated relationship with open-world games: he loves the freedom they offer but has strong opinions about map clutter, collectible design, and whether a side quest deserves to exist. He started his career reviewing action-adventure titles for a Latin American gaming outlet before expanding into English-language coverage, bringing a perspective shaped by a market where regional pricing and localisation quality can make or break a game's reception. Rafael evaluates open worlds not by square-kilometre size but by density of meaningful interaction, and he maintains that Breath of the Wild's climb-anything philosophy was the genre's most important innovation since GTA III. He also has a spreadsheet tracking every open-world game he has 100% completed, currently at 47 titles.