Looks like a Radiohead video.

Oh wow didn’t realise it was that ‘short’. I mean, Celeste was much longer, wasn’t it?

8hrs according to HLTB, I'm probably misremembering.

5:28 according to my save, with a paltry 26 strawbs.

And now I'm gonna play Celeste again

Heh, sorry. My taste in racers is a bit random, I've only ever been properly into a handful over the years (not counting karts & top down stuff) and I've never been the go-to guy when it comes to wheels. I'm taking this as cold revengeance for my Cruisin' bruising though.

Tilly hated the handling too, and requested "Cruuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-zing" twice when I got her to try out the split screen mode. She changed her tune when we started playing tag though.

5: Nobody Saves The World (PC) 10/10

Some good shit here for free(ish) on Gamepass.  Nobody is an action RPG with a Monster Boy style form changing gimmick.  Most of the forms are fun and different enough, but as you level up you get to mix n match abilities from different forms with one another.  I enjoyed when you're struggling with a tough dungeon so you have a look through your abilities and see what you can swap in.  You almost always have a eureka moment where you figure out how to make your character a 1 man killing machine, for that dungeon at least.

It can sometimes feel like you're cheating the system, but it never lasts for long before you'll need to change your tactics and setup again.  I think it strikes a good balance between giving you a good challenge and then letting you kick ass for a little while.

I really like how you level up - you (mostly) don't get EXP but just killing a heap of baddies, but rather from using particular abilities and attacks, and later mixing in new abilities from other forms.  Not only does it keep the game fresh since you're not just relying on a couple of go-to abilities, but it teaches you how to get the best out of your forms.

Really appealing cartoon graphics too!  Bright and colourful with some ugly looking enemies.  The text is mostly light and humorous; to be honest I didn't pay it a great deal of attention but it seemed fine.

Is there much wrong with it?  Mostly just your indie problems with some of the menu stuff being a bit too convoluted.  I do think they could have consolidated a few of the forms and abilities.  Like you hold RB to bring up your radial menu of your different forms, but there are so bloody many forms that they don't all fit on there!  I didn't really use a bunch of them towards the end.

Mostly had a great time though!  Will probably pay for a cheap Switch physical.

Stop playing such long-arse games and join the bitesize brigade.

35% off Road 96 is coming, I can feel it in my weird saleswatch bones.

17. Sonic Generations - Xbox 360/Series S (4hrs)

I'd heard this was quite good but never got round to playing it.  It's fair to say I liked Sonic Adventure more than most (at the very least I remember if more fondly than rewritten history remembers it).  It was slightly muddled and never a truly great game, but at its core I thought it made a fine stab at transposing the Sonic experience to three dimensions.  Plus it was especially impressive when I first got to play through it in early 1999 - my sister's bf had an import Dreamcast and the visuals packed quite a punch.  The Dreamcast leap tends to get forgotten at times but SA was originally released pre-Crimbo '98, which means it's of a comparable age to something like Spyro the Dragon on PS1.  It was no Mario 64 if you scrutinised the gameplay, but it never attempted to be - much like the 16-bit Sonics it had an entirely different set of charms to its closest Nintendo neighbour.  The controllable rollercoaster style isn't a bad approximation of what OG Sonic often was at times.  Was an Edge [8] iirc, and I make them right.  Adventure 2 got even muddier with some disastrous gameplay additions, but there's a valid case for the Sonic (and Shadow) stages trumping the main stages in its predecessor.  I drifted away from the 3D adventures at that point as they seemed to be iterating on a format that could do with an overhaul, but it was far from a bad start, ignore the naysayers.  I did play Sonic Colours on Wii, which was a'ight, but haven't played Heroes/Forces and the rest.  

Generations is a mix of classic side on Sonic (albeit with the 3D graphics engine) and into the screen Adventure style bumper filled runways.  The era swapping conceit is good, and the generational swapsie is only a button press away in the hub area.  The 60fps BC boost is super smooth and on the whole it looks really nice for such an old game; it makes a strong first impression for sure.  Unfortunately the further I got the more the overall wonkiness snapped into focus.  This is still Good Sonic, but there's a scattershot quality to whole thing that makes it feel more disappointing than it should.  The opening salvo of remade early 90s stages (Green Hill Zone ofc, Chemical Plant Zone, Sky Sanctuary) soon make way for middle era environments and by the end I was running around entirely unrecognisable zones. I get it, that's what the brief was for this game, and Sonic still sells afaik so perhaps this was a great decision by Sega...it's just a bit of a shame for the oldies.  We're well catered for in Sonic Mania so maybe I shouldn't complain, the final two levels in this were actually quite good, but I still wanted to shout 'play the hits!". After compelting the two types of stage for three sets of zones (there are nine in total) a set of challenge stages will open up.  You only need to beat one of these to pick up a key for the boss gate, but they're a real mixed bag.  Absolute randomness in terms of quality.  Some are surprisingly good and offer a welcome change to the standard platforming, some are genuinely atrocious.  Good luck to the hundo hunters here, I wouldn't have the patience and there'd be no satisfaction if I did.

Bosses are quite good on the whole.  Sonic games didn't do too badly in this respect on the quiet, the later MD efforts in particular had some decent face-offs.  The last boss is a joke though, hideous stuff.  

Overall I'm glad I picked it up for what, £3?  Can't remember now, it was days ago.  [7] as a spruced up retro run from two gens back, would drop to a [6] as a new release though.

@Moot_Geeza how does Generations compare to Colours that we played on the Wii years back?

Generations is miles better than Colours, and they are both better than Lost World or Sonic 06

I have that now.  Will play it.

6. RE4- 12 Hours - 6/10 - Xbox Series X

Wow…still one of the best games ever but after playing the REmakes of 2 and 3 it’s such a long, bloated, boring mess. Obviously deep down I’m aware it’s one of the best games ever made but playing it now is simply not fun anymore…All time 10/10 but after those two and right now a 6 is being kind…

Re-remade?

Yossarian wrote:

Re-remade?

Badoom-tish.