Hey, haven't posted here in a while since I moved into my house.
Nevertheless, I managed to play some games so I'm gonna start with my controversial opinion:
Somerville > Planet of Lana
also
The Last Case of Benedict Fox > Planet of Lana
Planet of Lana is a good game but nowhere near as good as Limbo, Inside and the less popular Stela.
The puzzles are just way too simple. Also wasn't the biggest fan of the same environments (the woods) getting re-used over and over again.
Both Somerville and TLCoBF had the superior world design. Also there was no annoying girl calling for her sister all the time even though she saw her getting abducted just a little while ago.
To be fair, I played both Somerville and TLCoBF quite a few weeks/months after launch and I know they were full of bugs on launch but they are perfectly playable now.
Somerville 8/10
The Last Case of Benedict Fox between 7.5 and 8 out of 10
Planet of Lana 7.5/10
What else....
Finished Judgment which is essentially a Yakuza game. Certainly has more in common with the Yakuza series than Yakuza 7. Pretty good game but I had hoped it would do something differen and not just basically cover the mechanics of the other Yakuza games. 8/10
Additionally finished Riders Republic thanks to the $1 month of Ubisoft+. Even though it covers more sports and probably offers more content, I had a little more fun with the "predecessor" Steep. Still a pretty fun game but I feel like they missed some opportunities here and there. 8/10
Currently playing:
Hi-Fi Rush
Started that one shortly after launch but decided to wait for some collectible guides to appear. Recently fired it up again and beat the first 3 stages. I'm having a good time
Atomic Heart
About half-way through the game now. While I'm not quite blown away, the game is IMO much better than the review scores (70 Metascore) suggest. I'd put it at 8.5/10 so far. Truly insane what that new dev studio has created here. Such a meaty singleplayer FPS campaign is incredibly rare to find these days. It can definitely hold its ground against other AAA titles. Furthermore, I expected to have quite a few performance issues but they seem to have updated the game quite well. It runs pretty good and there aren't any big framerate drops.
