Today (ish, depending on your timezone), Sea of Thieves turned five.
After a few seasons of taking some time away from the seas, I returned late last week with the Season 9 update. It feels almost at the same level of invigoration as the Shrouded Spoils update, with more world events, more lures for pulling players together, more fog, more megs, more… well, everything!
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I’ve played through the Wo Long demo a few times now, which means I like it a lot.
As someone who’s never played Nioh the systems set-up is new to me, but I’ve found the morale/spirit interplay to be intriguing and super engaging. Why can’t I stop thinking about this game?
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It makes me feel homesick to see all these locations highlighted in such a caring way. Time to reinstall.
Despite the wide range of critical reactions to Atomic Heart, Game Pass proves it’s value once again with a Day One release.
Firstly, the game is gorgeous. It’s certainly on the short list of most impressive Unreal 4 games to date, and – aside from a few hiccups – runs at what feels like a rock solid 60fps on Series X.
Well, that didn’t take long, and I’m already nearly half way through a New Game+ replay already.
Hi-Fi RUSH is an absolute blast to play, and I feel like I’m finally mastering the rhythm based combat as I replay levels and continue to buy upgrades and new combos.
Xbox shadow dropped a new game from Tango Gameworks at their Developer_Direct: Hi-Fi RUSH.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, dripping with style and personality and a ton of fun. The rhythmic gameplay is forgiving, but rewards good timing, and the combination of platforming, exploration and combat is paced perfectly.
More thoughts on the game, and how it released, soon…
I haven’t played Gears 4, so I’m a little behind the story beats, but Gears 5 is an interesting journey so far.
The environment and character work is excellent, but I do have some hangups with the core gameplay and systems. More soon…
I’m playing with my daughter, and we’re about three quarters of the way through. I have thoughts… to be continued…
This year I started manually tracking Game Pass drops. The list is in a publicly accessible Notion database, that any user can sort or filter to their heart’s desire.
Like apparently everyone else with Game Pass, I’m playing High on Life. More fun, colourful game worlds please, I mean look at that!!
Still playing: Eastward.