Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

This remake of Star Fox 64 proves the Arwing isn’t out of style quite yet.

I recently finished reading Keza MacDonald's excellent Super Nintendo, a largely celebratory book about the company that "helped the world have fun", which nevertheless sounds a note of understandable caution at its conclusion. The author is concerned – and it's a concern I share – that Nintendo has been playing things too safe of late, that its release slate (with the odd exception) has become alarmingly conservative. It's time, surely, for the next Splatoon, and by that I don't mean Raiders. As hardware goes, Switch 2 is no big swing, and so far its software has generally followe

Where A Plague Tale's Amicia spent two games hiding in the grass, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy's smuggler Sophia is far more athletic and trained for danger, and it plays less like a full-blown stealth puzzler than like Assassin's Creed crossed with Tomb Raider. On this evidence, it's the best the series has ever felt in our hands.

“Bad Dancer” ramps up the paranoia in Star City, bringing out some nice early character development along the way.

The third game in the Plague Tale series is a prequel set on a Greek island.