What We Played #637 Palworld, Lil’ Guardsman & Tekken 8

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We’ve been having a busy time here at TSA, and it’s safe to say that 2024 is suddenly in full swing, with the release schedule picking back up after a few weeks off. I’ve had the chance to play Tekken 8, which is a real heavyweight hitter, while I’ve started on our review for Granblue Fantasy Relink. Besides that I’ve played New Cycle for some bleak city-building, waded through some more Asgard’s Wrath 2, and taken a look at Palworld too.

Aran wrapped up our review of Lil’ Guardsman, a comedic riff on Papers, Please, and really enjoyed it. He’s also made a start in Palworld and caught 19 of the dudes as he focuses on base building to start, and raced through the end of Crysis Remastered to make a start on Crysis 2 Remastered – “I think I prefer the more open setting of the first one, as well as having a protagonist that talked.”

Understandably for a fighting game fan, Nick P’s week has been dominated by reviewing Tekken 8, “which has been brilliant!” He’s also been continuing a Lies of P run and is now up to the final boss.

Gamoc has mostly been playing the excellent Midnight Suns, but did also give Hardspace: Shipbreaker a go, “which was cool but got old as soon as it introduced having to constantly rush off to refill oxygen and fuel, then the completely backwards idea to force me to stop every ten minutes  because my shift ends so I have to go through more menus to get back to it. JUST LET ME PLAY THE DAMN GAME!”

Meanwhile Ade has been playing and loving Miasma Chronicles, from the makers of the equally brilliant Mutant Year Zero. “Stylistically it has a definite Fallout 2 vibe,” he says, “which is absolutely a very good thing. Well worth a look.”

There was a big disappointment in Steve’s week, as he wrapped up a review on retro shooter Graven, but he got to mix it with the “bloated but fun” Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. He reckons both could do with being a bit shorter and more focussed, the the latter is very pretty.

And while he’s not played it yet, Tuffcub is very