What we've been playing – action heroes, dice, and old hunting grounds
12th April 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: action heroes, dice, and old haunting grounds.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Not a Hero, Switch
We don’t think about genres the right way. I am sure of this. Shooters? Metroidvanias? Fine. All fine. But what happens if you spread your wings a bit. Here’s a new genre: the best game to play for an hour. (Hulk: Ultimate Destruction belongs to this genre, incidentally.) Here’s another: the most exciting game to play when you’ve forgotten the controls.
Top of my list for this one is Not a Hero. I love this game. Roll7 taking their skating line and applying it to action games. Not just action games but those wild cinematic shoot-outs where you’re ducked behind something as your enemies fill it with bullets. I leapt in today for a half hour and it was as good as ever. Better maybe. Because for the first five minutes I had forgotten how to reload.
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Sure I could easily find out how to do this, or just jab randomly at buttons, but why would I do that when the panic that set it was just deliriously harmonious with what I was playing. I was running, sliding, shooting, and then there’d get to a point where I was out of bullets and… and… argh!
