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@Ralizah It’s a shame that your description of Chicory is how the game is widely seen.

The main story focuses on mental health and self esteem quite a lot (although, for me, it does get a bit sickly sweet with it) so it’s not really a kids game.

Other than the optional Art School, you don’t have to be creative with the paintbrush and it’s used to make quite a clever platformer with some good puzzles. And the boss “fights” are stylishly done too. A really good little game!

Keep the Returnal #1 spots coming team! It’s certainly a PushSquare forum favourite with the thread for the game up to 128 pages now..

An interesting mix on this list though and Death’s Door is certainly on my wish list.

@PenguinL I bought the game at launch for PS5 and had no problems with it. Text size was fine even on my old “small” 32” TV. The vast majority is voice acted anyway but you obviously need to be able to read what you want your reply to be.

One of my favourite games this year too.

@Dezzy70 Just like the PS4 Ratchet and Clank game!

@redcorpuscle Chicory is a great little game. I was quite surprised at how much platforming there was and some decent puzzles too.

PlayStation Store: more sales than DFS.

(sorry to our non-UK readers for this one)

Chicory is a wonderful little game that more people should give a go.

The paintbrush mechanic works well and it’s a decent puzzler/platformer too.

Thanks Sammy!

I’ve enjoyed my console greatly so far (well, my second one after having to send the first for repairs within 48hrs of getting it..)

Load times and almost guaranteed 60fps are wonderful. As you say, the star of the show is the controller and the big exclusives like R&C and Returnal use it brilliantly.

The idea of the “Director’s Cut” has also been an interesting one to allow some big name games from the last gen to flourish and I’m currently really enjoying my time with Death Stranding. It’s a clever way to plug the gap with only a handful of dedicated PS5 games.

And the PS+ collection must be fantastic for newcomers to the Sony system.

Apparently it’s on for me but I’ve never had a notification..

@Excess It’s been a while since I played the first game but I don’t remember the controls being much of an issue. Whereas Civ 6 always felt a bit clunky to play on PS4/5 but did as good a job as it could on a controller.

@Excess @Excess @kyleforrester87 I quite enjoyed the first game and it’s on sale often enough to give it a go.

It was a good challenge to get full ranking on each level and the game encouraged you to do further levels to unlock stuff to use in your old parks.

The biggest issue was that the maps were almost purposefully designed to be annoying so that you always seemed to be lacking decent open space and your monorail had to take a stupid route around the park.

Also, having the iconic theme tune play when you open the game is cool the first time you play but incredibly annoying after a few weeks..

The original game was brutally difficult and it always seemed a bizarre choice to have limited lives too.

The fact a tank could blow up multiple cars but then be destroyed by a single bullet always made me laugh though. As did being able to out run police bullets at times.

GTA5 is still the most fun I’ve ever had with a game online. I just wish they’d included the “GTA races” from GTA4 where you started on foot and had to get to a checkpoint on the other side of the city by any means necessary.

Photo mode! Don’t do this to me…

@LiamCroft Thanks. It’s what I’d expect but I was wondering if someone had felt a slightly less clunky way of doing it, particularly with 20 to choose from, but it sounds like it works.

@LiamCroft How intuitive and momentum breaking are the squad abilities to use? Is it opening a wheel of options to select them (seems messy with lots of characters to choose from) and is it easy to end up using the wrong one?

RIP game manuals.

@ShogunRok Good lord.

So much of that review could apply to any of the Yakuza games; it was always way too easy to spend hours on something like cabaret club and then forget what exactly the main villain had actually done wrong by the time you got back to the main story.

@johncalmc Thanks! Sounds pretty good overall, especially for £25.

How long was the game roughly @johncalmc ?

@darkswabber I recently finished the main series of Yakuza games. Y4 was good to mix things up after the bloated Y3. Y5 is the longest of the lot (about 120hrs for me) but Y6 is a trimmed down affair and a good finish.

I still have LaD and the original Judgment to play so it’s good to hear you rate J1 so highly!

Playing Yakuza (etc) or Ghost of Tsushima with English dub just seems weird to me now. Looking forward to the proper lip syncing in Ghost now!

@Welsh_Will I also thought Civ 6 ran fine on PS4. Loading times are (unsurprisingly) much better on PS5 too.

The controls are fine for the most part. Keyboard and mouse will always be better but I only game on my consoles so am happy with any good port!

I’m surprised the Crash or Spyro trilogies have never made it onto PS+ (although I think the former is on the Collection on PS5).

I have them both already though! Crash Team Racing would be a perfect game though for single player and multiplayer.

Better sale offers or discounts on new releases would be good. If there ever are PS+ bonuses in sales, it’s never more than a pound or two.

Top tier trolling.

I can never get my head around people getting upset at games that are a few years old are being ported to another system.

I had no problem with waiting for Mass Effect, Disco Elysium to come to PlayStation consoles but wouldn’t have bought a different console just to play them 🤷🏻‍♂️

I might have to pick up Judgment at that price. I’m finally onto Yakuza 6 and already have Like a Dragon in the backlog but give me more!!

Disco Elysium is an utter steal at under £20 so everyone should go buy that. HARDCORE!

@GamingFan4Lyf I’m playing Ratchet and Clank and you can use cards to show you the location of collectibles. You can play a little video and there’s a text description too. It only shows the ones for the level you’re on and it works well.

@nessisonett It’s only really Astro and Ratchet I’ve used them for so far. Spider-Man had them but weren’t so useful and the Returnal ones only really showed your progress for glyphs etc but were wrong for ages.

I’m currently playing the game on PS5 and it already runs beautifully and has the option of 3D audio (which is also really good).

I’ll be interested to see quite what else they manage to eek out of the system to justify the cost but would be more than happy to pay for it. I’m more annoyed that I didn’t know this would be coming when I got the game!

@nessisonett Damn, I missed The Pedestrian off the list! Definitely one that more people should try.

Returnal and Disco Elysium for me. Both utterly incredible games and both benefit from being the only 2021 releases I’ve played so far too!

@Boucho11 Hollow Knight was one of my top 3 from the last gen. Wonderful game and one of those I wish I could play for the first time again.

I liked the first game too so it’s cool to see it’s coming back. My biggest gripe with the first game were that the maps were really fiddly and limited at times.

@Golem25 Tropico 5 and 6 are good games. They’re good fun without having to spend too much time with micromanagement but both still have their problems.

@Futureshark Ditto. These are the same settings that had and I thought Performance RT was great on my older HDTV.

Anyone thinking about Disco Elysium should get it. Fantastic game.

Observation is a neat game for a tenner as well. Clever idea having you play as the AI on a spaceship and a good Event Horizon style story.

It can’t just be me who has had to re-download the game on their PS5 so they can upload their save file and will then have to download the game again when this comes out?

It will be overlooked by many but The Pedestrian is a wonderful little puzzle game that is a steal at under £10.

@God_of_Nowt Thanks for that reply; very interesting!

Having just got the platinum for the PS4 reboot, I’m gutted the series passed me by on previous gens.

It also seems weird to see Dr Nefarious looking like that in the trailer after they changed his character model for the reboot.

@ShogunRok Ha, that certainly makes more sense! There is a forum thread for the game if you want to do more spoilery chat;

https://www.pushsquare.com/forums/ps4/disco_elysium

@Pro_V_Gone No problems for me with that and my guy has stayed up until 2am each day.

@Starkei I’m planning on similar; a thorough “thinker” style play through first time, then a physical build superstar addict, and finally a paranormal run.

@ShogunRok Looking at your character’s skill tree, I’m surprised he figured out how to open the door to his room at the beginning. He probably just walked straight through it.

@nessisonett 10XP for every conversation option!

@ShogunRok How dare you write a review of the game and not mention Kim!? I would do anything for that man and it pains me when my character upsets him.

That is one hell of a set of political thoughts in your cabinet you goddamn Commie-Nazi! I haven't even seen the "Les Adventures" thought on some guides I've browsed.

My build has been like @nessisonett with mostly logic but high on perception, composure too. I'm on day 7 now and my one criticism is that I've gained so much XP that I have a full thought cabinet and reasonable stats across the board that it doesn't feel like such a niche character any more.

Can't wait to get another session and crack on!

@Kidfried I agree some challenging ones are good but the “simple” ones like Spider-Man, Horizon etc have you do everything there is in the game so for a developer, I think that makes sense as you want to have people see everything on offer.

I will be forever disappointed that I couldn’t get the Hollow Knight platinum as the Pantheons were too much for me. I definitely should have got something for finishing the Path of Pain though!

I’ve still had nothing game breaking since release. BoringSorryCop shall prevail!

@2cents I’m totally INTER it.

Just make the UI nicer, have folders and/or more games on the Home Screen, and get rid of the rubbish horizontal listing of trophies!

I don’t ask for much, honest.

@LordSteev There are lots of bits which were cosmetic or guns. Shadow Broker is around 3-4 hours maybe? So at least 20hours of extra content altogether, probably closer to 30.

@LordSteev First time for the DLC? Does that mean you didn’t play Shadow Broker for ME2?? It came with the PS3 version and was a fairly meaty affair.

The Zaeed and Kasumi side stories (also included on PS3) were good and Arrivals linked ME2 and 3 together.

For ME3, From Ashes gave you Javik who was a great character and made for some interesting conversations, especially if you also had Liara on the party!

@Jaz007 To make up an example of conversation choices, you could walk into a trashed room and have options like;

“This is art, man. Total nihilism. I dig it.”
“Whoever did this must have been on some serious s**t. I need me some of this.”
“This is pretty rock and roll if you ask me.”
“Hmm.. I wonder if the owner did this or whether this was a break in”.
“This was definitely demons. The apocalypse is coming after all.”

It’s not necessarily “boring” per se but the game does push you to not play it too straight.