Currently playing...

[venusian]

Just finished the main story in Yoku's Island Express. It is charming and joyous and wonderfully presented. It's not hard and lasts to the exact point where the pleasure of playing peaks, before it gets tiresomely easy. I have no idea how, but an island full of pinball bumpers and flippers seems somehow perfectly natural. Every indie studio churning out tedious pixelated rogue-like platformers should take a long hard look at this.

Letterquest was on PS+ a while back but was really hard to play on the tiny screen. It's available for Android tabs, which is where I pretty much maxxed it out. Good game.

[Chontler]

I'm totally lost on Yoku, have been for hours. It should have frustrated me by now but it's such a charmer that I don't care. Otherwise I got Assassins Creed Origins in the sale and I've just finished it. It's definitely the best in the series. They've cut a lot of the nonsense out - hardly any of that Abstergo stuff (that usually seems to be done on a different game engine too). None of those stupid grab the floaty things and pointless pick ups. I vowed I was never going to go all OCD on AC, and this time I didn't have to. It's the first game I've gotten a platinum trophy for. Really, the only bad thing thing it has going for it are the loading screens that are often jarring and smack in the middle of an important cut-scene.

[MattyP]

Addicted to OnRush at the moment with Human: Fall flat in between.

Took MS up on their current offer on GamePass which worked out at £11.99 for three months and loving it. Human fall flat is one of the titles that I got access to with this and such a wonderful physics puzzler. Also picked up Doom, Abzu and Sea Of Thieves to play at some point too.

Thing I'm loving about OnRush is that its a simple pick up and play fun racer with lots of carnage great title to kill an hour or so with...and it's not a typical racer more of an action car based game almost like a car game and fortnite….

[funkstar]

Got a bit further in Bioshock this time, and decided to go it on Easy, but I'm stalling a bit - it just doesn't feel all that compelling (heresy, I know).

I bought a shitload of games in the Steam summer sale (was it just me, or were the discounts deeper this time around than they've been for a while?) and promptly forgot about them. So I picked up one of Fanatical's (urgh, that name) latest offerings for The Swindle (I watched some of a Let's Play with Matt Lees, which was intriguing), and I've been obsessing about it since. I've seen all it has to offer, and there's an extremely inconsistent design decision at the very end which made me rage-uninstall it once, but there's something compelling about it, still. I'm starting to see why people must enjoy Spelunky.

[venusian]

Blasted through INSIDE in two sittings. Fuck, that's disturbing. From pulling off a pig's tails, to the selkies to the Thing at the end.

Fantastic graphic design: horrific without gore and a magnificent sense of scale. And the sound is just sublime.

[TFO]

Playing Dragon Quest 11 on PS.
Haven't done one of these since doing one of the early ones on the DS many years ago. Other than a graphical overhaul, the whole mechanic still seems exactly the same.
Really enjoying it though - it's very chilled.

[MattyP]

Yoshis Crafted World - Loving it!

The Order 1886 - Never got around to this. Finding it a bit like Gears Of War set in a Victorian world with monsters...

[noodles]

Just got out of a Darkest Hour session and it was quite a blast ! The developers really managed to improve the depth and gameplay
of Red Orchestra's WWII FPS action to new levels of variety in roles and possibilities. Really brilliant west and east front 64 player online combat.
If that's what you are into you will not want to stop playing. And it's a free add-on for the original game that goes for 1Euro these days.

[Cassiel]

Bruce Lee - Return of Fury on the Commodore 64:





Top stuff.

[Baggypants]

Ocarina of Time, a kind of 'Let's Play' with my son. I've played it through once before but I don't remember any of it. Holds up well still though.

[Chirpychicken]

Sekiro shadows die twice - brutal but brilliant.

I loved Bruce Lee on both spectrum and my mates amstrad back in the 80s.

[MattyP]

Shadow of the Colossus - In 4K loveliness...

Soon be playing Konami Anniversary Collection: Arcade Classics (tonight - roll on work please...)

[venusian]

Katana ZERO. Anybody else?

I'm finding it a mix of planning and chaos. When I win I'm often not sure how or why. And I KEEP pressing the wrong button and jumping into lasers etc.

[merman]

Super Mario Bros on the C64...

[venusian]

After a few hours over the weekend, I'm revising my opinion a little.

If you have the Holy Fingers of Dexterity it's actually a pretty good puzzle platformer and you can see what it's taken from Hotline Miami. There's much less chaos and more planning and execution if one is competent with a controller. Personally I am still mostly fumbling my way through with occasional bouts of Getting It Right.