7th June 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 play probably the closest thing we’re ever likely to get to Bloodborne on PC; we jump back in time in a retro-inspired RPG; and we enjoy the easy delights of this year’s Clash Mini.
What have you been playing?
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To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Skald: Against the Black Priory, PC
Playing Skald last night, I was struck by a sense of RPGs being a kind of language. It’s a thing we pick up as we grow, in a gaming sense (and maybe a literal sense too), and it’s there working away in the background whenever we fire a game like this up. Instinctively, before we’ve even begun, we know what to do. We know how to balance things like “to hit” scores, and why they might be useful. We know what stealth is all about, and ranged attacks, and magic. We have an implicit understanding of character archetypes and how they’re going to be used. Really, we can see part-way down the tunnel of a game’s experience before it’s even begun.