Sonic’s Frontiers

Good morning, my beauties, and welcome to this week’s version of Whatcha Been Playing? I hope that you’ve a heat drink handy this chilly fall morning, and I thanks for taking day out out of your weekend to verify in with us. It’s getting colder on the market for positive. Wish I used to be there to heat you up.

For now, nonetheless, it’s the weekend, and I hope that yours is crammed with happiness, pleasure, good meals, good mates, and video video games. And should you are working, then I hope you’ve a easy shift, and are in a position to profit from the time which you do must your self — maybe later this night, or tomorrow. Either approach, deal with your self this weekend, each time you’ll be able to, and be type to your self, at all times.

Nighttime Fears

At EGX I had the great fortune to take a seat down with a number of titles, outdated and new. I had my second spherical Capcom’s Street Fighter 6, which continues to impress with its participating motion and dazzling visuals. I acquired slightly time with Sega’s Sonic Frontiers, a slick, easy, and deftly dealt with title that additionally sports activities a bizarrely isolating tone and a few unusual, juxtaposed design concepts. I’ve additionally spent slightly time with the delightfully darkish shmup, NeverAwake — and hopefully, I’ll discover the time to spill some ideas on this new launch subsequent week. Oh, I’ve additionally performed some Tempest and Missile Command on unique arcade {hardware}, and I nonetheless discover them each to be compelling, thrilling and difficult titles.

After all, they don’t name it The Golden Age for no motive.

Your Top Tiers

And that’ll do it for me for this week. I move the candle to you to share with us the entire rad experiences that you’ve been having over the previous week. Head on down into the feedback and tell us what video games you’ve been taking part in, the way you’re holding up, or when you’ve got something cool deliberate for the weekend. Whatcha Been Playing? is, for essentially the most half, about gaming. But it’s greater than that. It’s about me, it’s about you, it’s about our beloved neighborhood. So thanks for becoming a member of me right here every week, and sharing slightly little bit of your world with all of us. As true as we speak because it ever was: You are amongst mates right here.

Have a beautiful weekend, from all of us at Destructoid.

Chris Moyse

Senior Editor – Chris has been taking part in video video games because the Eighties. Former Saturday Night Slam Master. Graduated from Galaxy High with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse