Astride Trico you vault across the world, ocassionally using his tail to scale up and down.Īnd the animation is just beautiful – from the crumbling towers, to the wind rippling through Trico’s feathers, it’s gorgeously detailed. And he’s a useful friend to have in a landscape that essentially consists of lots of very very tall towers. He’s been bound in chains and you have to gain his trust and free him – naturally, he becomes your friend and guardian for life. The game begins when you wake up in dank cavern next to Trico. In Skyrim I had Shadowmere, in Fallout I had Dogmeat, and in The Last Guardian I had Trico who’s kind of like a griffin… but cuter.

Stomping around as Vader is very satisfying and I have a special fondness for the jetpack jump.Ĭaveat though – I firmly expect Final Fantasy XV to completely knock this out of the water once I get home for Christmas to play it.īasically all I ask of a game is a desolate world and an animal to accompany me through it. This is the most fun I’ve had in any reimagining of the original trilogy aside from Secret Cinema’s IRL adaptation (which was quite literally the best thing in the entire world, so hard to beat), and is even something my less nerdy boyfriend can happily play against me without having all the Galaxy’s lore at the back of his head. It’s been years since I cared for a shoot-em-up, and this game delivers a super compelling portion of that along with frantic speeder bike races through the forests of Endor and epic X-wing dogfights.

This is technically a 2015 release but the ongoing DLC is lit and I’m in a complex custody situation where I only see my PS4 on holidays.īattlefront had me harking back to my heady days of extremely long and intense Halo sessions. Please note: we are actually very nice people and some of these games don’t involve destruction. In our downtime we love nothing more than to kick back on the sofa and destroy an AT-AT/wolf pack/dragon. So today we’re looking back at the best games we play in 2016.

Bioware games for free christmas 2016