What we've been playing – mental mindsets, fond farewells, and untapped potential
10th May
Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve been playing. This week, Jessica writes a last entry before casting off into the world of freelance journalism – you are a star, Jessica, and we’ll miss you – Bertie ponders his variable states of mind, and Tom O ponders the untapped potential of PlayStation VR2.
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in our What We’ve Been Playing archive.
Clair Obscur, PS5
The frame of mind we approach a game with, or a movie or a work of some kind of creative act, has slowly started to fascinate me. How much of our reaction to something depends on how we feel at the time? And if the answer is ‘a lot’, how precarious that then is for the authors of those works, to have the reception depend literally upon our whims.
