Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?

What Have You Been Playing... IN NOVEMBER 2024?

   ENSLAVED: Odyssey to the West Premium Edition
https://store.steampowered.com/app/245280/ENSLAVED_Odyssey_to_the_West_Premium_Edition/
It is $3 right now on steam; If you don't have this title just buy it right now.  The combat & platforming are straightforward and linear (this is a Point A to Point B classic Quest after all), which is totally fine with me, and I played on Easy difficulty anyway.  The affecting story and excellent voice acting by Lindsey Shaw, Gollum and Daddy Pig are a cut above, and make Enslaved truly worth playing, and you get involved with these characters much more than the average title.  The 10+ year old graphics look great to my eyes -- 1080p is the maximum resolution, and looked fine on my 1440p monitor which auto-adjusts -- textures reasonably detailed and colorful, and a standard xbox controller worked well.  This is not a deep, complex game, and it doesn't need to be.  It tells a great story in just the right amount of time:  Big thumbs up!
If you want more of this, don't forget the Pigsy's Perfect 10 dlc that's included https://store.steampowered.com/app/245280/ENSLAVED_Odyssey_to_the_West_Premium_Edition/ (I decided to skip playing this but watched a cutscene compilation instead) and if you want even more, I also just finished and can recommend reading the abridged Journey to the West novel the game is based on:
https://www.amazon.com/Journey-West-translation-originally-published-ebook/dp/B0DG7V8NJR
as well as the Stephen Chow movie https://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=42612606#item_42612606
and of course there is the recent Black Myth Wukong game!
rms