What We Played #546 – LEGO Star Wars, Trek to Yomi & Easter holidaying

It’s suddenly Easter weekend! This may not come as much of a surprise to you as it did to me, particularly if you’ve been indulging in a spot of ‘Easter holidaying’ as well, but I’ve suddenly found that I have time to play games again after some a house move that we hopefully won’t repeat for a very long time.

I checked out Arcade Paradise which is shaping up to be the laundrette/arcade management sim you never knew you wanted, while ploughing through a few more movies in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. I’ll be popping a final score on my review next week. I’m also playing Kaiju Wars for review and I’ve bought Tina Tina’s Wonderland, so I might get time for that in the next week if I’m lucky.

Nick P finally gave Elden Ring a rest and has jumped on Lego Star Wars instead. He tells us, “It’s been quite a relaxing break from the harshness of The Lands Between. I started with Episode One and I’m working my way through. I’m impressed with some of the voice actors who have done great impersonations of the characters. Apart from Anakin. He sounds odd. I’ve also continued playing Weird West which I’m still enjoying, and I started playing Chernobylite for review. More on that later.”

Meanwhile, Nic B played a whole bunch of stuff at the end of last week as he was at WASD, and now has thoughts to share with you all. The most noteworthy are Die By the Blade, Cult of the Lamb and Trek to Yomi — previews of which can be found in those there links. There was also, Magic and Pogo, because he’s addicted isn’t he?

Gareth has been playing Nobody Saves the World for review. He’s also restarted Divinity 2 because when he resumed his previous save he couldn’t find a fight he could finish. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? He’s also played actual, real-life Dungeons and Dragons for the first time. He said, “It was great, though only the DM had actually played before so it took us six hours to beat some goblins, follow a trail, and get partway into a cave before we stopped at midnightish.”

Tuffcub has obviously been playing Destiny 2, but also: Guardians of the Galaxy. He has thoughts: “It’s not what I expected – there’s very little shooting and an awful lot of Quantic Dreaming. By that I mean lots of dialogue, and then more dialogue while you amble around some big area occasionally pressing a button. Kinda fun, but also a bit meh. I also played: Aliens Fireteam Elite. I don’t remember anyone in the Aliens universe being telepathic but every character in the game is because I can hear them talk but their lips don’t move.”

He continued, “That must be it, and not that the game had zero budget and they cut corners everywhere. The game is quite fun and does get that “being swarmed by Aliens” thing down really well, but it’s 2022 and we’re past enemies just vanish off the screen when they are dead, it looks very dated. Someone needs to do Aliens properly, so when you kill one the acid melts the area. These ones just pop and then vanish. Meh.”

Jim made the drastic decision to delete For Honor, for now. He says, “I had loads of fun but was becoming a tad too obsessed. It was also parrying all of my attempts to tackle this steaming backlog. So, this week, my attention has been split between two titles: Ghostwire Tokyo and the Ace Attorney Trilogy. Both very different games and both very Japanese. Ghostwire has me exploring its titular city, often completing spooky side missions. While I love its setting and style, the core combat is weak, despite clever attempts to mask its first-person shooter roots.”

Slightly different, Ade has been at Centre Parks, so he’s been playing Laser Combat, jeep racing and bowling. That sounds amazing, I think you’ll agree.

Miguel has played way too much Elden Ring! Way too much Apex Legends! And a bit of Gotta Protectors: Cart of Darkness, which he says is “a weird and wild Japanese tower-defense action RPG that finally got localised after years of teasing.”

Steve has also been Easter holidaying enjoying the delights of Edinburgh – both cultural and culinary – so not a lot of gaming has been done. He did finally get started on the fan translation of I Am Setsuna for Vita that has been sat waiting to be played, and he found a copy of the Stardew Valley board game saying, “the kids and I are excited to get stuck into that once we’re home and fully unpacked.”

Finally, Tef also had a bunch of WASD previews to share, including Golf Gang and We Were Here Forever. He also got to share his thoughts on Nintendo Switch Sports! Aside from that, he’s been getting in a money-making race at Le Mans each day in Gran Turismo 7, and redeemed a few free months of Apple Arcade, so has been messing around with Mini Motorways, What The Golf, Chu Chu Rocket and more as he quickly explores the gaming catalogue.

But that’s enough about us; what have you played?