What Is TheGamer Staff Playing This Weekend?
The weekend has arrived and there's a new Beyoncé album to listen to in celebration. JRPG fans are experiencing a comparable renaissance, with a trio of meaty new games to sink their teeth into. But, TheGamer staff members who aren't into turn-based combat and killing gods are finding plenty to play, too.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and Digimon Survive are the big new releases giving the JRPG fans on staff hours upon hours of fun. Live A Live, the Switch remake of the 1994 Square Enix RPG which was originally released only in Japan, is also out now worldwide. Plus, Hitman 3 got Ambrose Island, a free, new map complete with pirates and a slapping contest. And, PowerWash Simulator is continuing to reveal surprising depths beneath its oddly satisfying exterior.
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Hitman 3’s Ambrose Island DLC launched this week. It isn’t the best map in the World of Assassination trilogy, but it has me itching to revisit some old levels and check off some unfinished challenges. I put 200 hours into Hitman 3 last year — spread across all the trilogy’s maps which are available through 3’s launcher if you own them — but I still have maps I haven’t achieved 20/20 mastery on and a platinum I’m a ways off from earning. Ambrose Island has me in a briefcase-throwing mood, though, so maybe I’ll try to get that trophy by year’s end.
PowerWash Simulator. It’s all PowerWash Simulator, all the time. I’ve discovered there is more to this game than cleaning things with my pressure washer in a satisfying manner. There are mysteries within the confines of the fictional town of Muckingham. Apparently an active volcano is somewhere nearby, the mayor’s cat is missing, the
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