What Games Are You Playing?

[Tom Frizo]

Finished Alien Isolation. Still holds up as a stellar survival horror games. One of the finest. Being chased by the Xenomorph is terrifying, at least in the beginning. By the end it does get a little annoying because he pops up at very inconvenient times, like when you welding a door or pressing the security tuner. It gets frustrating when you have to replay same section multiple times. The story, graphics and sound design is amazing, and is true to the 1979 classic movie. It follows the event from there and it could be considered a true sequel. Lots of cool Easter eggs throughout, paying homage to the Alien franchise. Isolation is probably the best game when it comes to Alien, it's so well made with an amazing attention to detail, great level design, tense stealth and survival gameplay and awesome voice acting by the cast. The fact that Creative Assembly is finally doing a sequel makes me all jittery inside. They've should've done it a long time ago instead of wasting their precious time with the that abomination Hyenas.

 

[Chronos Notashi]

As of recently, been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition on Switch. Been taking breaks every now and then to play PSO or FFXIV (and a weekend for Splatoon 3 Springfest), but I've been making progress. It's honestly impressive how Monolith Soft made an open-world game that looks as good as it does on Switch run at consistent framerates (and without sacrificing load times or requiring a massive download to reduce load times like with the original Wii U title).