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Not 100% complete yet, but we rolled credits on Big Walk tonight! Absolute masterpiece of a finale, and surprisingly affecting right at the end. Undisputed GOTY for me.

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The Big Walk continues! It's so good, but remains quite hard to describe in a way that really captures it. Last night, for example, we spent a long time collecting buttons from hidden spots around the landscape, then wandered into a tunnel and found a hidden underground disco room.

On a whim, we also started a run on Return to Moria. Not entirely sure on it yet, but I'm in a big co-op headspace at the moment, and it's doing double-duty scratching a Lord of the Rings itch, too. We're still very much in tutorial phase, I think - it's been pretty low-stakes so far, and we've only had to fight orcs once yet. Sarah has ambitions of restoring and/or remodelling the entire of Khazad-dûm, but I suspect that might be beyond the game's scope…

Overwatch.

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 remains top of The List, even though (I think) I still have a couple of missions left in the original. I'll have to see if I can scare up a last hurrah to get those done while waiting for a discount on the new one.

Not much on my radar besides; I watched (most of) Sony's State of Play thing the other night and came away fairly underwhelmed. I saw someone, somewhere gushing over Rhapsody in Scarlet, but it looks like a HD remaster of a Vita game to me. The only thing that piqued any interest at all as Hunter's Moon, which is sort of a folk-horror Sir, You Are Being Hunted by way of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

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I continue to be astonished that It hasn't happened yet.

I'll definitely go back for Songs of the Past, but I've never been able to replay the main game again for fear that I'll fuck something up and get a terrible ending…

I've gotten a few things on Audible, but only with the free credits when they offer me a trial. I have the most of the Andy Serkis Tolkien stuff (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion) and most of the Tiffany Aching Discworld books. The sound quality isn't always great, especially on headphones, but it does just fine for listening in the car.

In "What I'm Reading" territory, I'm between things right now. I finished Beowulf (much shorter than the Odyssey, but not entirely dissimilar, despite having been written 2,000 years apart), and have a stack of things on my desk. Top of the pile at the moment is Wool, which I had recommended to me years ago, but only just got around to picking up a few weeks ago.

The screenshots give me fantasy Wildstar vibes (this is a good thing).

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Big Walk is great. I've done the first area three times now - once with a group of four, and then once each with the kids - no voice comms, just calling to them from the other room. I'm trying not to give them hints, just let them work things out for themselves, and they're surprisingly quick at picking up stuff that the adults got muddled over!

Between that (and too many rounds of Overwatch), I've also played a bit of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It's very Ubisoft, but I haven't played a FarCry game in a while, so it feels relatively fresh to me. It also, surprisingly, has co-op, which I've been trying to get Sarah to join me in, but despite being a bigger fan of the movie(s), she's not enjoying the game as much as I am. It is very Ubisoft…

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Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 is out tomorrow. The first one was fun, and this one adds in a fourth player, so we'll have to rotate out less often. It's not preorderable, so I'm not sure what the price tag will be, but given everything else that's on my list - and the fact we've not finished the Pathogen expansion from the first game yet - I'll be happy to wait for a discount (or PS+ appearance..?).