It’s been another cold week, and one that’s proven perfectly suited to wrapping up and playing video games. I’ve been working my way through Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, and we’ll have the review for that one on Monday. Other than that, there’s been a chunk of Suicide Squad, a heap of Naruto X Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections, a spot of Granblue Fantasy Relink, a smidgen of Dave the Diver and a soupçon of Street Fighter 6 as well.
Nic B was the first to drop in this week, and he’s been playing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth for our final preview! In short he says, “It is great fun sinking back into the FF7 universe and seeing what’s new, what’s changed and OMG! There’s a new card game! This game seems like a lot of fun and I am very excited to sink my teeth into it further.”
Aran played through Crysis 2 Remastered and Crysis 3 Remastered this week, completing the trilogy. He enjoyed it too, saying, “I’d rank the series Crysis > Crysis 3 > Crysis 2. It was really fun for the most part and the bow in 3 is excellent.”
Miguel has been playing so much Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island, but you’ll have to wait a while to hear about that one. He’s also played plenty of Like A Dragon Gaiden and some Helldivers 2.
Having rounded out our Suicide Squad review, Gamoc modes on to play Assassin’s Creed Unity, telling us “I’m a mediocre assassin who slaughters countless guards in Notre Dame”, as well as the Skull and Bones beta, “Where I’m a mediocre pirate who mostly attacks ships until there’s suddenly too many and then flees”. He’s also playing more Baldur’s Gate 3, where he’s in the middle of an at least four-hour-long bit that he completely missed the first time around. Note the lack of the word mediocre in that one…
Steve has also been assassinating people, having finished AC Mirage and successfully rinsed his month of Ubisoft+. He’s had to get value for money after a costly GPU replacement, though used it as a good excuse to play more on his PC to stress test it and enjoy the new shininess it can offer. He’s also wrapped up Alisa for review, played some Next Fest horror demos and installed Suicide Squad ready for some mindless action in between bouts of undergrad marking. Finally he says, “I’ve also installed FFVII Intermission as I realised I never got around to it and it should bridge the gap before Rebirth at the end of the month.”
Nick P got the Platinum on Lies of P and “loved every second of it”. He then started his hard run on FFVII Remake as well as jumping on Helldivers 2. While having a cup of liber-tea, of course.
Tuffcub succinctly told me he’s played Destiny 2, Helldivers 2. Partick Thistle 1, Kilmarnock, 2. Which he then said is a joke only old people would get, and I got it, so now I am grumpy.
Giving one-word summations, Ade has been playing Torn Away (emotional), Wo Long: Complete Edition (hard) and Classified France ’44 (embargo) for review. “It’s been a busy one but an absolute treat too!”
Jim has also been playing some Wo Long, having bagged the season pass. He says, “It’s been fun to dip back into, try the new weapon classes, and meet new Three Kingdoms characters. The bosses are tough as nails, however, and Wo Long’s wonky gear system doesn’t incentivise trying new weapon/armour builds so I’ve bounced off, straight into Foamstars.”
And finally, Tef is yet another one hot dropping into Helldivers 2, but has also played a smidgeon of COD: Black Ops Cold War, the demo for upcoming 4X strategy game Millennia, and revisited Splatoon 3 with the Side Order DLC now on the horizon.
What about you? What have you played?
TSBonyman
After my initial fumble on returning to Elden Ring i have rewired my brain, found some better weapons and tackled a few invaders -including performing a successful invasion of my own – in order to progress Varre’s quest. I then went back and defeated Starscourge Radahn, so that opens up a new area – Nokron city here i come!
Andrewww
I tried Eagle Flight for my PSVR, which is on Plus, and which I can play even when my son is working on his e-sports career on my PS5. I played the first couple of levels, and these were ok, but the control scheme of tilting your head to steer seemed a little risky for my neck to go on.
I also played some Rocket League, and continued Ghostwire:Tokyo, which is good fun, but there’s far too many side missions and stuff to do.
I also started Death Stranding, but that’s a difficult game for me to play late at night, as overly long cutscenes (which I expect from all of Kojima’s games) tend to make me fall asleep…