What We Played #663 – TMNT: Splintered Fate, Kunitsu-Gami & Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail
Mr. Blue Sky is out and about as we head into the weekend, so I’ve got fans pushing air around to try and keep the house cool enough to consider making more heat with consoles and PC gaming. Thankfully I’m not playing the most graphically intensive games, continuing on with SteamWorld Heist 2 and dabbling with a few other things that you’ll hear about soon…
Gamoc reported in first to say that he’s played a pretty smorgasbord of The Lord of the Rings The Third Age, Neverwinter Nights 2, Mount and Blade: Bannerlord, and The Last of Us Part 2. That’s a lot of fantasy and gritty battling!
Even more varied and in very different ways was Aran’s week, which featured a preview for EA Sports FC 25, which is “more of the same, but Rush is fantastic”, as well as TMNT: Splintered Fate and Rack and Slay for review – a decent Hades clone and a billiards-bashing roguelike respectively. For his own enjoyment, he bored himself with The Turing Test, continued picking up collectibles in AC Mirage, and has started to replay Enslaved Odyssey to The West, “which is just as good as I remember.”
Jim beat Skyrim for the very first time, after more than a decade of varying attempts, but he’s tempted to go back in to complete some of the side quests. That’s bumped Cyberpunk 2077 to the top of his playlist, where he’s kept chipping away at the story, and in search of something different to play on Steam Deck, he’s started Dragon Quest XI and is eyeing up Fallout: New Vegas.
It was the “excellent but traumatic” Conscript for Steve, a survival horror game where surviving is just as horrific as not. He countered that with the review of the bitesized speedrunning delights of Nintendo World Championship: NES Edition. He also had his Retroid Pocket out to play the “underrated” Breath of Fire series, and is preparing to play Flintlock off Game Pass.
Tuffcub has been playing Destiny 2, of course, but he’s also been reviewing Thank Goodness You’re Here!, which you’ll hear more about later this month, and
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