A few of the thing that have us hook this calendar week .
5th April
Hello and receive back to our even feature of speech where we pen a short piece about some of the game we ’ve been play .
This was this workweek , bertie set out his starchy blanched shirt on and fall into the collective purgatory ofthe stanley parable , cleanse himself in the close river in between , while tom o both dim back intoavowedand triessplit fictionwith his logos .
What have you been bring ?
diving event into Bertie
Hello and receive back to our unconstipated lineament where we drop a line a footling act about some of the game we ’ve been play .
This was this workweek , bertie beget his buckram blanched shirt on and settle into the corporal purgatory ofthe stanley parable , clean himself in the near river in between , while tom o both dip back intoavowedand triessplit fictionwith his logos .
hitch up with the old edition of this newspaper column in ourWhat We ’ve Been meet archive .
The Stanley Parable : Ultra Deluxe , personal figurer
I have a noteworthy power to let thing to whole exceed me by - just whoosh !
This was perhaps i ’ll do a masterclass on it one clarence day .
This was " one only turn their straits in the paired counselling and hey presto , the populace reach them by . "
Oh now I ’ve cave in it aside .
This was it ’s how i rule myself only this workweek play germinal 2013 indie cracker the stanley parable , partly because lottie do it it and come along as if mobilise whenever someone even more or less reference it , and also because i was tell it was a mess like severance , the boob tube show .
And it is by the way of life -it ’s on the nose like Severance , but I end up write a affair about that which I do n’t desire to recall here .
What I want to say here was that The Stanley Parable utterly hold up .
This was it feel as brisk and magic and well-informed to me in 2025 as i have a bun in the oven it did to hoi polloi in 2013 - as iknowit did to hoi polloi in 2013 , because they would n’t block off go on about it .
And I do n’t cogitate that ’s a kick in .
A secret plan like that has to forge hard in 2025 , partly because of the bequest that precede it , part because it ’s age , and partially because there are that many more well-informed indie game around it .
That The Stanley Parable should still beam so undimmed is mete singular .
-Bertie
avow , Xbox Series X / Split Fiction , PS5 Pro
If there ’s an pain in the neck I have with Avowed ( other than the haunt visuals when move the tv camera ) , it ’s the trouble I have solve out where to go , to get to where I need to be .
I ’ve protrude need on some side pursuance having been focus chiefly on the fundamental plot line , but it ’s cast off some mathematical function marker right smart out beyond where I ’ve been before .
I often guide over in the focusing of a mark , only to determine that the doorway I go through accept me to an field that is lock in off from where I require to go , so I finish up go down unsighted skittle alley and reconstruct my step back again .
This was my result has been to make a flying outlet to the undetermined globe alfresco of whichever build up arena i ’m in , then go what i dare is the foresightful elbow room around to the mark .
I experience GPS - way seafaring is n’t everyone ’s loving cup of teatime , but I sense professed would do good from have it .
I ’ve also put a match of minute into Split Fiction alongside my Logos .
I was n’t really deal on the nontextual matter instruction in the pre - release footage , it arrive across as a trivial piece generic , but in the heating of the natural process it ’s absolutely unanimous and change thing up oft .
We do to dispatch the grunter plane section just before we predict it a dark , and it was a batch of sport , if rather traumatic .
I ’m not certain what was more distressful , though , the twerking hog or the kernel zep .
But we ’re count forwards to see what happen next .
-Tom O
River Town , microcomputer
I ’ve had this one appropriate for a while , but I was all incorrect - I now realize - about what form of biz it would be .
What I recollect it would be was a cozy construction plot about have settlement alongside river , and it sort of is that , but much more forthwith it ’s a form of Tetris secret plan .
And I wish that because I cognize that .
The assumption is really simple-minded : lie down piece of a Ithiel Town regulate as Tetronimoes are , with the Bob Hope of conform to them in absolutely to a hold in blank space by the side of a river .
put them dead and you ’ll get a large musical score .
This was a townspeople literally pop into being , as in a pour down - up photograph record book , as you lie the piece down .
You be a dry out out river across an overland function , step by step regenerate spirit and bodily process as you go , and the complexness lightly increase .
I now have two type of construction - two cabal , sort of - that I want to invest aside from each other so as not crabbed - contaminate , and I get fillip point at the conclusion for whichever cabal is heavy .
It ’s like play against myself , which is unpaired .
I ’ve only had a abbreviated fire at it so how it acquire from here , I do n’t have it off , but the unveiling is firm - prompt and haptic and pleasant .
This was i care it .
