Our big real world/video game crossover present was the Pokemon trading card set that Seb bought Dad, though we did end up buying another deck and some boosters in the excellent Argosy toyshop in Southend. I ordered the Alolan Sandshrew and Alolan Ninetales Sun & Moon trainer kit. You get two mini decks of 30 cards and a game to play through (with the cards in a particular order). Great way to learn the game. Then I downloaded the TCG onto the PC (PEGI-7) and gave that a go. Definitely be playing a bit more of this, and it was fun to play in real life as well. We don't play enough games together. ;-)
Seb also got a bunch of Pokemon plushies, some sort of Pokemon in a pokeball, and a Pokemon encyclopaedia. Our favourite plushie is Litten because he has FACE HANDS!!!
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| He has FACE HANDS!!!!! |
Seb bought me Unravel 2 (PEGI-7) on the PS4. This is (obviously) the sequel to the excellent game Unravel, which I enjoyed very much. The big difference is that the game is now a two-player co-op game! Hooray! It does take some serious co-operation if you play with a friend, though. Otherwise you can press triangle to switch between your two yarnies. The art in this is breathtaking, the music is haunting, the puzzles are tricky but it's possible to work them out in the end. I haven't finished it yet but what I've played so far is, though perhaps not AS good as the first game, still perfectly capable of sucking you in. I'm not sure what the story behind it is, yet, but there are some eerie memories going on in the background...
We also ended up with a few new games on the Switch. First of all there's Crypt of the Necrodancer (PEGI-12). This was out a few years ago on PC, but only arrived on the Switch in 2018. It's the only game I've ever played like this - it's hilarious! But also quite hard... The music is an integral part of the game. You have to move on the beat of the music, and if you do you get a multiplier. When the song ends you move to the next level. When you get to the shopkeeper he sings along with the music. It's pixel arty, toe-tapping fun. And what's more it's two-player co-op again. Hooray!
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| Necrodancing! |
Second new Switch game is Dead Cells (PEGI-16). I'm not going to say much about this since as a 16 certificate it's heading outside what I want to talk about here. Also, I haven't played it yet! But Dad has played it a fair bit over Christmas and he says it's good. (I've also heard it's good from numerous other 'top indie game lists', so it must be, right?)
Thirdly Dad bought Into the Breach (PEGI-12), which he says it just like playing Pacific Rim. If you like little mechs, this game might be for you...
He also bought himself at least one game on Steam - Enter the Gungeon (PEGI-7). This is a dungeon crawler, and another one of those games that's been on the 'top indie game lists' for 2018. It's a bullet hell, rogue like, boss-filled game. More pixel art. Good stuff. :-)
I don't know why Dad bought the last one on the PC when he'd been going Switch crazy. Though he did get a £10 Steam voucher for Christmas, so maybe he was spending that.
Oddly, Seb's favourite present on the day was a Hollow Knight keyring! He also spend some of his Christmas money on the two Hollow Knight soundtracks, which he made me burn onto CDs. He's still old school.
Hope you all had a good Christmas and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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