What We Played #635 – Super Mario Wonder, Starfield & Taiko no Tatsujin
On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… a return to work, and some grey sky to look at wistfully. It’s Friday the 5th, so if you’ve not taken your Christmas decorations down, you have to do it today but if you’ve been well prepared like me, you’ll have all that extra time for playing games.
The gaming industry is already winding back up for the next 12 months, and I’ve also been ruminating on what’s coming out this year. I’m already looking forward to this month’s Prince of Persia and Tekken 8, but it seems that the number #1 pick amongst the team has been Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. You can check out all the other games in the top 50 on the site.
This week I’ve been playing some Super Mario Wonder with my youngest, and he’s a very angry gamer. I don’t know how it happened, but I’m mildly worried about the future of our controllers. Alongside that, I’ve been playing Asgard’s Wrath 2, which is very good, but also very long for a VR game, and then I decided it was finally time to get up to date with gaming and play The Witcher 3. It’s fantastic on Steam Deck so that makes things easier.
Aran has been playing Starfield. He told us, “I’m only a few hours in but jumped to a few different planets. Gone off the beaten path of the main mission and have already become a gang member and a smuggler of medical supplies.” So, sounds like it’s going well already.
Steve has spent the festive period with the entirely appropriate Ebenezer and the Invisible World, saying, “It’s a solid if unspectacular Metroidvania elevated by the bonkers choice of source material.” He then moved on to RoboCop: Rogue City, “which I’m enjoying a lot more than my learned colleague Ade did – although I can totally see his point of view on it. I’ve
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