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Life Is Strange: True Colors PS5 The Wavelengths prequel episode bridges the gap between Deck Nine’s Before The Storm and the latest Life Is Strange, focusing on Steph Gingrich’s role as Haven Springs’ resident DJ. Her role entails a series of mundane activities: updating the playlist (playable records include the likes of Foals and Hot Chip), using a d20 to offer ‘psychic’ advice, and reading on-air ads. It’s everything outside the job that makes it special: hilarious exchanges via a dating app, a moving reunion with an old Arcadia Bay friend as the pair reckon with the trauma of the first game’s events, and an ending that fully validates our decision to romance Steph in the main game.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania Switch Probably the best Super Monkey Ball since the first two – largely because it basically is the first two, with a clutch of extras including the ability to play as Kazuma Kiryu or a Sega Saturn. Yet scandalously, it still doesn’t get Monkey Target right. Somehow the original still remains undefeated.

Behind The Frame: The Finest Scenery PC We wouldn’t say the time it takes us to finish this gentle story about a pair of painters is the best way to spend 72 minutes this month (not when Céline Sciamma’s wonderful Petite Maman has an identical runtime), but even if parts of its script seem to have lost something in translation, this touchingly highlights the hidden meanings behind works of art, and how they can forge connections between strangers.