What We Played #636 – Evil West, Street Fighter 6 & Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Week’s done. Friday’s here. Time to chill, to rest, to reset and probably play some video games through the weekend, but What We Played is about what has gone before, not what’s coming up. I’ve been playing New Cycle, a bleak post-apocalyptic city builder, and I’ll have some thoughts on it next week. Besides that, I’ve been continuing my playthrough of TheWitcher 3 on Steam Deck, VR’ed my way further into Asgard’s Wrath 2, threw some punches in a spot of Street Fighter 6, and got in a hefty dose of Monster Hunter Rise that I’ve seen fit to restart from the beginning.
Steve has also played some of those new-fangled video games, and it’s a diverse bunch as always. He said, “After completing The Forest with my online gang we have moved on to Strange Brigade which is silly fun. Lots of Tally-Hos and inappropriate colonial contexts but nice to play a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously. I also finished RoboCop: Rogue City and really enjoyed my time with it. It’s unashamedly a relic of a previous generation but then in many ways so am I! Daily achievements have been via the chilled Spirit of the North and finally, I’m playing through the games of VHS aesthetic horror devs The Puppet Combo for a conference paper this weekend on Horror and Analogue Technology.”
While he’s been playing The Cub for review, Aran has also jumped back into Starfield. He says, “I’m taking it slow and decided to be a surveyor so I’m visiting moons and planets scanning the resources and wildlife. It’s actually quite therapeutic, and I’ve found little stories and side missions as a result. For example, while scanning Luna I ran into a bounty hunter who hired me to help clear out some pirates in an old outpost.”
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