THREE TO PLAY
PSN games you might have missed
Every month, loads of games come to the PS Store. You’d be hard-pressed to play them all, so each month we look at some that didn’t quite make the cut. This issue we’re fighting fiends, slaying demons, and avoiding animals that would quite like to have a nibble on us.
First up, PSVR title Song In
The Smoke uses the medium’s physicality to sell its central bid for survival. After waking up to the call of to account for the absolute basics a many-faced before night crow, falls you’re on left your vaguely prehistoric world. Food, clothing, shelter – all of these can be crafted from materials you pick up and slam together. You’re going to collect a lot of sticks, take it from us. And you’d better hop to it, because when night falls you’re at the top of the menu. If you want to make your would-be hunters the hunted, you can track them by sight, sound, and even in-game smell. The visual direction’s inky black edges intrigue us, and we love the tactile feel VR brings to survival here.
Speaking of hunting the hunter, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles is a supernaturally infused 3D fighter in which your hero’s battling to turn his demon sister back into a human. Demons the tag-team-style massively and demon popular showdowns. slayers anime The alike throw 18-character from down the in first 1v1 roster season and is of actually quite small, featuring all your favourites and then all your favourites again but this time as their Kimetsu High alternate universe forms. Why these versions couldn’t be restricted to cute costume nods, we’re not sure, but that said, they do have some of the most charmingly animated special moves.
Visually, Dungeon Encounters is a distinctly different beast from the other two titles we’re looking at here. Stripped-back visual presentation allows the mechanics’ many floors crunchy of – what challenge else? – dungeon to take centre crawling. stage If you for generally play JRPGs for the stories, this title’s very different priorities will leave you cold, but it does offer plenty in the way of fights and strategy. What is likely to pique most genre fans’ interest are the big names attached to the project. Case in point: Ito Hiroyuki, the creator of Final Fantasy’s lauded Active Time Battle system, leads the team in the role of director.