Published 2 Apr, 2021
Hallo! With the Easter bank holiday weekend upon us, we ll be gone both Friday and Monday then return on Tuesday. Tradition would dictate we spend the weekend sat in a traffic jam on the motorway, growing increasingly resentful of each other s peccadilloes, but current restrictions thankfully means The RPS Minibus must remain under its tarp. Instead, hey, I guess we re playing video games. What are you playing this weekend?
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My bike is finally back up so I ll be taking long rides to calm down between frustrating runs in the new Binding Of Isaac expansion. So far it s hard to tell how much of the challenge is my unfamiliarity with new enemies and items, and how much is new enemies being powerful, and the item pool being diluted, and old enemies getting some extremely rude buffs. Hmm. Maybe I ll come round but I am not instantly enamoured with Repentance.
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God, that was a weird one, huh?
As a rule, gaming took fewer hits from 2020 than most other aspects of the entertainment industry a few delays here, the occasional massive, discourse-destroying trainwreck there but overall, pretty smooth sailing. As such, our annual list of the year’s most interesting games takes two fairly divergent paths: Those games that gave us comfort and connection in this most bizarrely hermetic of years, and those that pushed the boundaries to provide something fascinating and new. The push-and-pull there has been endlessly intriguing, as a two-year-old mobile game suddenly became the topic of congressional interest, old franchises learned some shockingly new tricks, and