2nd August 2024
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing over the past few days. This week we push through to get to better times in a game, which we hope are coming; we change our perception of a game after talking to the people who made it; and we find the familiar in a game that also manages to feel completely new.
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail, PS5
Let me get this straight: I’ve just finished saving the world having journeyed across the universe to prevent the monstrous effects of depression, while resolving centuries-long conflicts and dealing death and despair and a whole lot more – I am the goddamn Warrior of Light – and now I’m on holiday helping a cat lady on a Pokémon quest to become the best Dawnservant there ever was? Work that involves – checks notes – trading items to tame an alpaca and leading a harvest festival. Sure. OK.