It’s always a funny feeling coming to the end of a shortened work week after a bank holiday. Is it already Friday? Wait…. I get more weekend again? And the weather is kind of nice?
I’ve done a little less gaming and a little more reading this week, as I’ve been working through Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series of novels, so I can then move on to watching the recent TV adaptation. That said, I have got in my regular daily bouts of Gran Turismo 7, and I’ve prepped for a weekend of gaming with MotoGP 22, and some secret games to preview for next week.
Jim wrapped up his run through Ghostwire Tokyo, and sadly found himself a tad underwhelmed. “Despite some interesting ideas, the combat feels flat and the story doesn’t really go anywhere. There are some cool set pieces and the occasional intriguing ghost story to be explored in Tokyo, but it’s the definition of a mixed bag.”
Aran has kept on plugging away at Elden Ring – “I’ve got to the mountaintop where I have discovered I am severely under-levelled, so have retreated to grind some runes and level up a bit more.” – while Steve continued to pine for the chance to devote enough time to play it. Instead he’s found that Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a perfect pick up and play game, that Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood is “a great concept and setting trapped in a truly awful game.”
Heading into the realms of VR, Jason has been playing Legendary Tales, a dungeon-crawler with an in-depth skill and class system. He says, “It’s a blast to play and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying some of the high level spells which allow you to punch icicles at skeletons.”
With some amateur dramatics occupying his time, Ade’s only had a little time to play White Ember, which was “pretty pants”, and got to some good story beats in Horizon Forbidden West.
Tuffcub complimented a few short bursts of Destiny 2 with Space Invaders Forever from his “why not?” game rental queue: “It’s a collection of Space Invaders games from around the 2000s including the bonkers Arkanoid vs Space Invaders, which is what it sounds like. You have the Arkanoid bat instead of a spaceship and have to whack the enemy fire and bounce it back to them to destroy them. It’s actually rather good.”
Having reviewed Nobody Saves the World, Gamoc turned to Divinity: Original Sin 2, and thoroughly enjoying the clever and creative gameplay and writing. He’s dropped the game difficulty down to “explorer”, though, because it’s hecking difficult.
Nick P has continued smashing through Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, where he’s now at the collectathon stage of trawling through the whole game, while also juggling time with Weird West and Dead by Daylight.
TSBonyman
In Elden RIng, i fixed my aggro’d npc quest and now have access to a plethora of new sorceries, i defeated Godrick the Grafted and the golden horse guy as well as a couple more side bosses. I found a grace point where i can run to a nearby wall and just soak up runes while some soldiers and large dogs fight – but it’s more fun to ride through the nearby area, teasing a few more dogs and bird to chase me into the melee, then move to safety and watch them kill each other :D
MrYd
After a weekend away for Easter with more “taking old people to garden centres” than is healthy…
More Elden Ring than is healthy. I’ve also found the watch the soldiers fight the dogs and suck up the runes spot. And then I killed a dragon and had yet another “thing I don’t know what to do with”. It’s a great game, with a very well built world, but it loses several points for just being awkward about everything. Things it doesn’t explain which just mean time spent Googling things instead of playing the game. Controls that are a bit unresponsive with weird choices for buttons. And a camera that camera that hates me. Maybe it’s because it seems easier than all those previous games that I notice how much I’m fighting the game rather than the enemies at times. And weapons that stop working at random unless you switch to something else and then back.
There might have been some GT7, that PS+ Hood game, Roguebook and DRG. It’ll probably be the same next week. And for several more weeks.
willbuchanan
I did play some Mercenaries 2 and Everybody’s Golf. I had planned to have a solid gaming weekend this weekend, as well as dinner out tonight. But you know how life has a way of saying “oh, you want to make some plans? That’s cute” ? So, this morning my wife tested positive for COVID. We live pretty closely together, as you’d imagine and I’m not showing any symptoms, I feel ok. But neither of us are entirely sure what the rules are and so we’re erring on the side of caution, taking things more or less hour by hour. So my weekend may involve some gaming or no gaming , dependent on how either of us feel…either way we’ll be at home for a few days
Andrewww
I’m on a kill streak currently with regard to cleaning up games in my backlog. Last week, I finally managed to finish the story of Bloodborne, this week I got to the end of Observation, which was quite good, if you like space station things.
I also started playing Control, which I find rubbish so far, hope it gets better.
What I found amazing this week was the AstroBot PSVR game (Rescue Mission). That one is really good, I enjoy it a lot.