What We Played #226: SOMA, Forza & Gremlins, Inc.

Greetings once more and welcome to another edition of What We Played, the piece we put together each week that keeps you up to date on all the shenanigans and tomfoolery that the staff here at TSA have been getting mixed up in. Or at the very least, we’ll just tell you what games we’ve been playing.

Dave starts us off this week with a couple of reviews. He played Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water, which he said was “okay but had a few problems,” and then a bit more of The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes before putting the final touches on his thoughts. From there he moved onto Gremlins Inc. on PC, and then tried a bit of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend. He’s also got the final episode of Life is Strange queued up, and he’s been playing 80 Days on iOS during his commute.

Next we have Mark, who spent a good chunk of his week with Forza 6, which he says has replaced Driveclub as his go-to racer. He said he loves the way the cars handle and he’s had great luck with the spin rewards, netting both a million credits and a Bugatti Veyron. After his days at the track, he also had time for the final episode of Life is Strange. He’s been pretty thrilled with what he’s seen so far, and said he thinks the final episode is setting up to be an explosive finale.

Tuffcub began his week with Destiny, but seems to be pretty frustrated with the lack of rewards after putting a lot of into the Iron Banner. He then checked in with Batman: Arkham Knight, which he says looks great but just feels like more Batman. Like so many others who played that game, he mentioned the Batmobile and how poorly it’s utilised, and specifically said he’s like a few more wide open roads without all the twists and turns. He finished his week with a few of his staples: Transformers, Super Stardust Delta, and Broken Age on Vita.

As for Stefan, he had an interesting week but I’ll let him tell the tale.

So the end of last week actually finished with a boat load of Rainbow Six Siege, which you can read, watch and hear about in my preview. This then gave way to more than a bit of WRC 5 for review, a relatively competent fresh start for the rallying game series, the outstanding finale from Life Is Strange, some digital board gaming with Dave for Gremlins Inc. and a short story in videogame form called Murder…

Miguel spent his week with his Vita, playing Danganronpa Trigger Happy Havoc. He also had the chance to check it out on PlayStation TV for the first time and says it fits well on the big screen, and that he’s been enjoying the story refresher.

Then we have Kris, who spent his week with a 2D, pixel art, sim management game by the name of Kingdom. The goal of this game is to ride through your kingdom, upgrade things as you see fit, recruit new subjects, and prepare your defenses for a nightly attack. He says it’s a fun game that gets pretty tense.

Dom has spent a bit of his week away from home, but that hasn’t stopped him from going all RPG on his video games. He’s been playing Devil Survivor 2 on 3DS, and Tales Of Zestiria and Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition on PS4, the latter of which you can expect to see a review on in the coming days.

That just leaves me, and it’s been a pretty scary week in my video game world, as I started and finished Soma on PC, which is every bit as great and scary as TC said it was in his review. I also downloaded Flight Control HD on Steam, and I’ve been playing that in small bursts when in between projects.

Well, how about that? We made it through another week. But there are more tales of gaming to be had, and they’re just below here in the comments section. If you don’t see yours down there, it’s because you’re a silly goose and haven’t told us what you’ve been up to. Head down there and take care of that, would you?