We’ve been having a busy time here at TSA, and it’s safe to say that 2024 is suddenly in full swing, with the release schedule picking back up after a few weeks off. I’ve had the chance to play Tekken 8, which is a real heavyweight hitter, while I’ve started on our review for Granblue Fantasy Relink. Besides that I’ve played New Cycle for some bleak city-building, waded through some more Asgard’s Wrath 2, and taken a look at Palworld too.
Aran wrapped up our review of Lil’ Guardsman, a comedic riff on Papers, Please, and really enjoyed it. He’s also made a start in Palworld and caught 19 of the dudes as he focuses on base building to start, and raced through the end of Crysis Remastered to make a start on Crysis 2 Remastered – “I think I prefer the more open setting of the first one, as well as having a protagonist that talked.”
Understandably for a fighting game fan, Nick P’s week has been dominated by reviewing Tekken 8, “which has been brilliant!” He’s also been continuing a Lies of P run and is now up to the final boss.
Gamoc has mostly been playing the excellent Midnight Suns, but did also give Hardspace: Shipbreaker a go, “which was cool but got old as soon as it introduced having to constantly rush off to refill oxygen and fuel, then the completely backwards idea to force me to stop every ten minutes because my shift ends so I have to go through more menus to get back to it. JUST LET ME PLAY THE DAMN GAME!”
Meanwhile Ade has been playing and loving Miasma Chronicles, from the makers of the equally brilliant Mutant Year Zero. “Stylistically it has a definite Fallout 2 vibe,” he says, “which is absolutely a very good thing. Well worth a look.”
There was a big disappointment in Steve’s week, as he wrapped up a review on retro shooter Graven, but he got to mix it with the “bloated but fun” Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. He reckons both could do with being a bit shorter and more focussed, the the latter is very pretty.
And while he’s not played it yet, Tuffcub is very excited about the release of Rainbow Islands.
Now then, what have you been playing?
willbuchanan
I finished Lego Dimensions and have discovered I can have the base Destiny 2 for free on PSN, with the DLC on sale, so I’m eyeing up starting that. After seeing it mentioned for months on What We Played, I feel it’d be rude not to ????
Dominic L
There’s a mild chance you will come across Tuffcub if you do!
Andrewww
This week, I tried Ace Combat 7: Skies unknown VR, as it leaves Plus soon. It was fun flying the first mission, but that was enough for me. I also played some more Ghostwire:Tokyo and some Rocket League with my son. Apart from that, I started to watch the first season of Foundation, as my free Apple TV subscription ends soon. The series is good, but overall Apple TV doesn’t convince me at all, they throw way too much unwanted and payed content at you.