What We Played #660 – Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, Diablo 4 & Beyond Good and Evil
We’re coming to the end of this week’s heatwave in the UK, and there’s the blessed relief of cloud and wind compared to muggy, sunny heat. So much better!
Tempted as I have been to play PSVR 2 while sweating absolute buckets into an expensive bit of electronics, I have not done that. Instead I spooked it up with Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD – a handsome remaster, though one I felt could have been more ambitious – with the opening hours of SteamWorld Heist 2, and a dash through classic Nintendo games with Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition.
Also playing a SteamWorld game was Aran, who is approaching the end of SteamWorld Dig 2 and enjoying mining everything he can to power up. Alongside that, he’s also approaching the end of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, where he’s picked up most of the collectibles.
Ade and his partner have been hacking and slashing their way through Diablo 4 – “It’s surprisingly complex and menu filled for a game that is ostensibly about mashing the same few buttons again and again but we are getting the hang of it. Her Necromancer and my Druid are proving quite the dynamic duo, level 30 already!”
Incidentally, they are actually playing this as a romantic couple in their head-canon, though it’s more a great tragedy than a rom-com, because “they can never touch, the game insisting they pass through each other, like glitchy ghosts.”
Jim wrapped up Death Stranding, but has mixed feelings on it: “Some really interesting and unique concepts at play with evocative visual design and world-building though the novelty gradually wore off, especially in those later chapters where Kojima insists on having you sit through lengthy cutscenes. Some of the more poignant moments were lost on me as certain plot details went over my head though – after sitting through multiple YouTube explainers – I ended up liking the story overall. Fascinated to see what’s planned for Death Stranding 2.”
Dom handed in a pair of reviews for EA Sports F1 24 and for Super Monkey Ball Banana
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