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Currently Playing 01/12 – Yoku’s Island Express

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Completed Islanders (will upload review shortly), I went shopping over Black Friday and purchased both the Judgement Games, Assassin Creed Vikings (Valhalla) & some PSN credit which I used to purchase a few games of the PSN store including Yoku's Island Express which I am currently playing. Still cracking on with Fifa with Steven Gerrard icon being my latest purchase and I enjoyed the recent German Squad challenge, Slowly improving my skills and played my first game on World Class Difficulty which I won 3-1.

Castlevania: Bloodlines (Switch): COMPLETED!

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Just in case I was misremembering that this was one of the good linear Castlevania games, and my thoughts on Vampire’s Kiss were based on warped memories, I decided to give this a go. It’s on the Switch Online Mega Drive collection too so it wasn’t difficult figuring out a way of running it.

And, I was completely right. It is so much better than Vampire’s Kiss it makes that game look like a dodgy c-tier “Dracula’s Castle” knock-off and not a legitimate title in the series at all. Bloodlines (or “The New Generation”, if you prefer) is faster, slicker, more varied, longer, less frustrating, and much more fun. The bosses are excellent, there are all sorts of nifty graphical effects that the Mega Drive can’t do except it can – tilting towers, sprite scaling, splitting the screen up and shunting bits of it around, and so on.

I played through as Eric Lecarde – the one with the trident – as I think I played as Mr Whippy last time, and the reach of his tool (careful now) makes certain sections much more doable – he can stab baddies on platforms above him, for a start.

I’d probably go as far to say that this is the best linear (rather than SOTN style) Castlevania game. Yes, even better than Super Castlevania IV.

54: Killing the Population of Halifax

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With the crew back up to full power, Episode 54 is easily the best episode we’ve had in at least four weeks.

In Episode 54, deKay, Kendrick, Luffer and Toby spit bars on such topics as Gamesmaster, Epic buying Harmonix, The Elder Scrolls VI (that’s “vee eye” not “eye vee”, Kendrick) being PC and Xbox exclusive, more Bugsnax incoming, and racism. No, not providing racism (well, not three of us anyway), but discussing it. Big chats, boys. And! Some! Games!

  • Animal Crossing
  • Castlevania Advance Collection
  • Cyberpunk 2077
  • Duet
  • Demons Souls
  • Lost Judgment
  • Saviors of Sapphire Wings
  • Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
  • Game Builder Garage
  • Hades
  • Pikmin Bloom

If that isn’t enough for you then by Harry what else can we possibly do for you? Aside from asides, and listener questions, of course. Oh, and we set you some homework.

(Direct link here)

Don’t forget, if you want to contact us with questions or comments for or about the show, you can email podcast@ugvm.org.uk or publicly shame us @ugvmpodcast on the Twittors.

Currently Playing 24/11 – Guardians of the Galaxy Completed

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Completed Guardians of the Galaxy, sticks to the familiar TellTale formula but has a pretty good story to enjoy. Lots of Fifa obviously and enjoying Islanders which is a puzzle building game and when you complete the points target on one island you can move to the next randomly generated. I've had a few issues with the auto-save not working on this so annoyingly lost quite a bit of progression but it's a nice simple game to enjoy.

Not planning on picking up anything from Black Friday unless I see the Judgement Games below £25

Currently Playing 19/11

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Blogger have gotton rid of the widgets feature where I used to update my Currently Playing, so I'll now post on a regular basis instead.

After completing Yakuza Kiwami 2, I'm taking a break from these games until the new year. I've also finished with this Season of Fortnite having got up to level 151, so lots of Fifa 22 especially now that I have completed my LFC squad with Salah. Also playing through some of my back catalogue with Guardians of the Galaxy TellTale Series & picked up a small indie puzzle title off the store that has been in my wishlist in Islanders.