But I can, through a process of coaxing lava from the Earth's core below - it's a long story - begin to introduce life and colour back to it, before finally, I lower the temperature and turn it back into the unspoilt, frozen wilderness it should be. There's barely any ice there, there's barely any life there. The level I'm on at the moment, the arctic level, begins like all of the others - as a barren, polluted lump of nothing. Terra Nil presents scenarios where we can, through the ingenuity of human technology, reverse the damage we've done to the world and heal it. Incidentally, there's a wonderful podcast about maintaining hope in a dark time called Outrage + Optimism that I very much recommend.īut Terra Nil offers me an escape. I try - I do what I can, but in the face of mega companies pillaging the earth, and the non-stop belching of aeroplanes, it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything. I'm probably like you: I worry a lot about the state of our planet and the future of humanity on it, yet I feel powerless to do much about it. I never did finish Terra Nil, if "finish" is even the right word - it's not really that sort of game - but I've been tempted back by the ongoing COP28 climate conference. Donlan Terra Nil, PC First you burn, then you grow! | Image credit: Eurogamer / Free Lives More than anything, Toasterball wants to make you laugh, and it does. And also because every gimmick that gets tossed in doesn't stop the game from feeling fair, albeit in a very chaotic way. Toasterball gets away with all this because being surprised is part of the fun. Maybe there will be portals, a la Portal. Maybe the ground will be ice, or will be electrified. And the enemy goal area will frequently have screens in front of it that you need to knock down. If there's toast in your toaster, you can fire that to knock the ball about. The goal is to get the ball past your enemy and into their goal area.īut it's all gimmicks after that point. You fire both toaster triggers to hop straight into the air, and you fire the left or right to move yourself around. What if you played volleyball, but with toasters. I played with my daughter last night and we were both falling about crying with laughter. I played Toasterball quite a bit on PC, but now it's on Switch I think I'm fully in love. (Side note - one of the villagers I wanted to leave actually moved out, so that was a bonus!) Again, there's something cosy about grabbing a coffee from The Roost in the museum, and then hopping over to the shop to spend a few Bells on a gift and wrapping paper for your favourite villagers. It doesn't expect too much of you, or for you to do things quickly.Īlso, Toy Day is rapidly approaching (an in-game version of Christmas where you can give your villagers gifts) which means Nook's Cranny has started stocking presents for you to buy and wrap. The soundtrack of the newest game combined with the small flecks of snow that begin to fill the late afternoon air, as my villagers wrap up in their warm hats, reminds me why I loved this game in the first place. I admit that my favourite version is still Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City, as its personality is hard to top, but New Horizons is a very close second. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Īs I sat there, digging away at the hundreds of flowers, I was sure I'd never felt more relaxed. However, now the winter is well and truly here, I finally dived in to fix my floral fiasco. I had flowers somehow take over my island and the idea of digging them up while the real-world weather significantly improved was not an inviting prospect at all. Yes, I did leave it for ages but I have a reason for that. This time around, I went back to a game that I've not touched since February 2023 - Animal Crossing: New Horizons. This is the time of year where I like to grab a relaxing game and delve into another world while burrowing myself under two blankets. Where I live, it's the time of year where the weather is cold, rain is constantly in the air, and generally the idea of going outside is not an inviting one. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Nintendo Switch If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We've Been Playing, here's our archive. This time: re-freezing the Arctic, re-visiting cosy corners, and volleyball with toasters. Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days.
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