Improv games for 2 players

Glimpses of Yuji Naka's outmoded genius can be seen in Rodea's barren skies, but a paucity and dissonance of ideas make this a failure. Ever play the game in which you must try to move from one side of a room to the other without touching the floor? The learning curve is low, but the risks are perilously high. Cracked lamps, bloody noses and scattered potpourri await the over-ambitious player, he who leaps from the arm of a sofa, over the baffled cat, only to put a clumsy foot through the coffee table. There's little grace involved, on those slow, wet childhood afternoons. Nevertheless, everyone involved believes, beforehand, that they'll move with enviable feline refinement, from mantelpiece, to lampshade to victory. Rodea: The Sky Soldier's development team clearly had a similar hopeful vision for this project, in which you play as a quick-footed robot boy, able to hover and glide through the air. As you tumble off walls and enemies, so you recharge the titular boy's … [Read more...] about Rodea The Sky Soldier review

At the heart of Atlus' action spin-off is Persona 5 Strikers' Personas, a physical manifestation of a character’s psyche. Symbolising inner strength in the face of adversity, Personas are central to our fight against Shadows. The thing is, as a spin-off sequel, Strikers has a few key differences in how they work. If you’re a frequent Velvet Room visitor wanting to know what’s changed, or you’ve never played a Persona game before—if the latter's the case, my Persona 5 Strikers guide primer will be useful—with the following breakdown I'll be covering everything you need to know about how to get all Personas in Persona 5 Strikers, and how they work. How to fuse and strengthen Personas in Strikers The Velvet Room is a key location in each Persona game, located between consciousness and unconsciousness, and its primary function is to cultivate Personas. Run by Igor in previous games, every Persona protagonist has at one point been his 'guest'. It takes different forms depending on … [Read more...] about How to get each Persona in Persona 5 Strikers

Sony's latest State of Play treated us to our first look at Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, a shiny updated version of Square Enix's reimagining for the PS5 . Bringing graphical enhancements, bonus features, and additional content to Midgar, Intergrade expands and improves on the initial release to give newcomers another reason to dive into the adventure, and longtime fans like me the perfect excuse to relive the adventure all over again. If nothing else, the upgrade shows that the studio is ready to go all-in on Final Fantasy 7 in 2021, even if we've still yet to see or hear much of anything about the highly anticipated Final Fantasy Remake Part 2. Prior to the State of Play, rumors were already doing the rounds that we might see Cloud and the gang make an appearance during the showcase, but few saw a big surprise coming – the reveal of fan-favorite character Yuffie Kisaragi, who has been given a remake of her own ahead of her debut appearance in a new DLC episode arriving as … [Read more...] about Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade has me all kinds of excited to relive the adventure again on PS5