Absolute Drift is killing me. Feels like Trails, but dropping you at the crazy tracks straight away. Handling is so tough to get sliding.

Yeah. Very clean look, I get down with driving games in that view generally, thought it'd scratch a trials itch. But I'm well shit.

Ori and the Blind Forest. After a few months of not playing this I'm back in and wondering why I left this alone, it is just sublime and easily one of the finest games I have ever played. Everything is so beautifully done, every now and again it hits me hard like no other game has.

It would be useful for games like this to have a quick recap attached to your save so you can remember certain mechanisms you have unlocked as it did take me about an hour to rework out how you air dash.

Avoid the spikes.

In addition to Detroit I’ve got a few other bits on:

— Okami (Switch)

I finished the PS3 HD version in 2011/2012 (!) - seems perfect for the Switch in what little I’ve played so far - my only complaint is that the right stick camera control feels a bit slow, and the ‘click analogue’ stick to center isn’t ideal - not sure if you can alter the controls but I’ll look into it.

— Lumines (Switch)

This took up most of my flight both to and from Portugal last week - I hammered it on PSP so it felt weird to initially be so terrible at it then pleasantly surprising to get back into the groove of it. And also - Shinin’ is still the best song ever.

— Chrono Trigger (DS)

I put a few hours into this yesterday having bought it a few months ago and put it in a drawer - I remember getting quite a way through a ROM version of it in the late 90s. Holds up so well - beautiful art, great combat and a brilliant soundtrack. It’s also interesting hopping between the Switch and DS - The latter feels much more durable.

Played a bit of Dead Cells on the flight last week but not enough to have a real impression - my concern is that the whole restart thing won’t be compatible with me but I’ll put some more time into it at some point and see how it goes.

Shame ori will never make it to the switch

COD Blackout beta. Loads of fun. Not as tense and considered as PUBG but it's tons of fun and smooth as silk. I really like it.

Tempted to buy a Cod game for the first time in ages.

It was really good. Not only is it smoother and better looking than PUBG, they've sorted the inventory stuff so it actually works well with a pad.

The armour stuff is odd, level three goons take a lot of hits and I'm shite at spotting who's wearing what, but the biggest bugbear for me is not knowing what the fuck each weapon does. They've all got daft names, there are a lot of them, and there's no indication of what class they are so I can't be sure what each one will do when I pull the trigger. The three burst thing is awful, I'd rather not pick that up again. I should probably get my head around it with a little more play time and a browse of the interwebs.

How long’s the beta open for?

Wolfenstein II, pass the pad with a mate while I watch the football.  Early days yet, but at this point it's crap.  Doesn't help that it crashed, then by the time we reloaded the update file I initially declined had downloaded, meaning that we had to start an entire chapter again.

Just been playing some Wolfenstein: The New Order today. Tried playing it a while ago but was really put off by the 60FPS cap (with drops and judders below that for some ungodly reason..). Got around to trying id5 Tweaker with it which can uncap the FPS amongst other things, massively improved gameplay experience now, still drops down every so often in busy scenes, but only to 80 or so. The rest of the time it holds up around 140, which is just lovely. Has caused at least one glitch so far, where an enemy clipped through a fountain, causing me to need to temporarily set it back to 60 to progress.

If only Bethesda's Elder Scrolls/Fallout could be made to work properly at higher frame rates...

A few more 100s in my slow inexorable - but enjoyable - march towards 100% in Yoshi's Island - damn and blast those monkeys' eyes tho, skinning would be too good for those hairy Japanese bastards. 

Also Yakuza 0. Properly funny goofy (interspersed with some poignancy) side-stuff ended this morning. Very cool game; glad I took a punt on it having not got on with the 6 demo.

Eric wrote:

There's an air dash in ori? What?

Well the Y button when enemies are close type thing.

Ah, the ground pound.
Thought I missed an ability.

Picked this up again after a 6 month hiatus.
Making progress like crazy again. I think I might be nearing end game. I unlocked the wind and the only way is up?
The dodging sequences are annoying me tho. I much prefer the exploration parts of the game. I also stumbled onto a dimly illuminated level with lots of blind jumps. Not sure if that's worth persevering.

davyK wrote:

100%-ing any of those monkey levels? I think that's where I gave up on the idea.....

Got 98 on another one just then. Will just leave it there.

Amaze game no question but I don't enjoy the character movement and stop-throw-thing happens-start again flow of its gameplay (plus I don't have the time-readies) enough to devote to it.

Actually really enjoying ori atm. After unlocking most abilities the game really opens up allowing you to explore at your leisure.