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Nobody Saves The World PC The Frozen Hearth DLC gives us reason to revisit Drinkbox’s action-RPG, offering two new unlockable forms. Getting your hands on them involves first earning medals across various challenges in a colosseum, the golds requiring plenty of experimentation to find the right ability combinations. After the first set you’ll gain the Mechanic, who has a four-hit wrench combo and a deployable turret, while the fast-moving Killer Bee’s stinger produces health-giving honey – a necessity given its crit-guaranteeing sting hurts to use. All in all, it’s a short, sweet but inessential expansion.
Immortality PC One minor irritation about playing a game before anyone else – particularly the kind of game that might, for example, convince you that inserting word-based match-cuts in a review is a good idea – is having no one to discuss it with when we’re desperate to do so. It is a particular relief, then, when friends of the show slide into our DMs and Hangouts, positively champing at the bit to talk about it with us. Suffice it to say that the conversations we have had about Immortality in recent weeks have been almost as enjoyable as playing it. Should it be an Edge 10? We have even fewer doubts than we did at the time.
Blasphemous PC As the wait for Silksong continues – and continues – we once again turn to the deep back catalogue of Switch Metroidvanias in order to scratch the itch. Although no doubt that would constitute a sin of some manner in the world of Cvstodia, a dark-fantasy twist on Roman Catholic iconography – mainly the bits involving guilt and self-flagellation. It remains a unique setting that helps offset the game’s failings, chiefly controls that lack the dexterity to match the game’s steep challenge. It’s no Hollow Knight, then, but what is?