I never had a Game Boy when I was a kid, so I missed out on Link’s Awakening. In fact, until Breath Of The Wild I hadn’t even played a Zelda game, so I was quite excited for Link’s Awakening when it was announced. I ADORE the art style. The game looks amazing. And the soundtrack remix is wonderful, ...

Overwatch is one of those games that I have fond and foul memories of. When it first dropped in 2016 I was new to PC gaming and it was my first big PC game. I adored it. I was neck deep in the community, making videos of it for my tiny little YouTube channel, getting fully immersed into this new Bli...

I hope that includes the DLC Jon. The DLC is half of the game for me

Yeah but the games that inspired it were explicitly set in the US, so the American English dub wasn’t too unexpected

The Medium’s VA direction is just weird. American actors, no hint of Polishness bar the odd name being read out loud. It’s a bit clashing with the world building

Weirdest is the cloud version of Control on Switch. I tried the demo and that set me off within about ten minutes, and I can’t really work out why. There’s nothing obvious like the other games I’ve mentioned. If the trigger is red tones, then Control will be bad for you. There’s lots of red hues an...

31st Jan - Hitman 2016 (Professional) - Xbox I finished this back when it came out on Casual. This week I’ve been going back through it trying to get Silent Assassin on Professional difficulty on each level. I finished Hokkaido last night but *just* missed out on SA due to a meddling guard who walke...

If you haven’t watched Star Trek: Lower Decks, you should go and watch it.

It’s essentially Star Trek filtered through Rick & Morty. It’s rude, sarcastic, self referential, bloody and very, very funny.

My GF and I binged through the whole season last weekend and it’s utterly brilliant

Jan 29th - The Medium - Series X

Good god, don’t bother. Great story wrapped up in a dull as dishwater game. Not fun to play at all and buggy as hell on the console it was intended to run on. Watch a Let’s Play and get the story that way

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Hi everyone I’m Gadget. Long time listener, first time patreoner. About me, I’m an all round gamer. Mostly play on PC but I’m really enjoying the series X at the minute. I love my strategy games, RPGs and stupidly hard old school shooters. I also play guitar and frequently shout into microphones.

Ah, a place for shameless self promotion? Excellent. Let me sing you the song of my people... I’m part of the 6 man collective that makes up Modern Escapism. Our podcast is a sanctuary from the modern world. It’s an unashamed celebration of procrastination and the things we do to waste time. Each we...

Have the Colony Wars games been covered yet? If not, get them on the list. They pioneered some great things in the early PS1 days

I’ve been all over the place this week Finished Prey (2017) FINALLY. Great game, wish I’d beaten it years ago. I bought Hitman 1 & 2 on Xbox and I’m enjoying running through them again before I pull the proverbial trigger on Hitman 3. I’m doing a silent assassin run for the first time too. It’s ...

Jan 27th - Prey (2017) - PC So, I tried to beat this game when it first came out and I managed to get myself into a game breaking scenario halfway through, so I sacked it off. I don’t know why, but I decided to play it again on stream and actually finish it this time. I love the aesthetic of the gam...

Death Stranding shouldn’t work. It really shouldn’t. A metaphysical, hyper-philosophical narrative set in a post apocalyptic America but also in the afterlife (or maybe the place between this life and the next) with gameplay set around being the most badass postman in the world. Oh, and you’ve got a...

From the opening drawl of the Ancient Reptilian Brain taunting the player about existence, Disco had me hooked. When the screen faded from black onto the pathetic mess of the hungover Harry, lying on his motel room floor, I knew I was in for a ride. My journey through Revachol was long and complicat...

Never has a game simultaneously made me so angry yet impressed me so much. I’m confident that Celeste might be one of those rare, perfect games. The platforming mechanics are tuned to perfection, the art style is to die for and the soundtrack is simply stunning. Despite its unforgiving difficulty cu...