I just finished playing the PS4 RATCHET & CLANK reboot. I enjoyed it overall – it's a very smooth, well-paced platformer – but there's something that feels weirdly hollow about it. I can't quite put my finger on it, though. Still, I more or less enjoyed my time with it. Side note: It's sort of hilarious that the few…

It's inside the mountain - solved everything in the first area, and solved all of the main puzzles in the second area, but now trying to crack the puzzle that you need to solve to proceed to the next area. You have to solve it on one side of the room (that part is easy), but then you have to go solve it again on the…

I'm a couple of hours into the PS4 version of RATCHET AND CLANK, which seems pretty fun so far: a slick, polished platformer with a charming sense of humor and a lot of nifty gadgets. I imagine I'll keep playing that this weekend.

I've been busy with stage stuff much of the past week, so I haven't had a ton of gaming time. However, I've been playing a bit of OVERWATCH to unwind when I get home each night, so it seems like a good time to talk about how things are going on that front.

Ah, yeah, that elevator puzzle took us a while to crack, too. I can't remember the solution to the sound-based puzzle you mentioned, but a tip for the elevator: pay attention to the shifting color patterns on the puzzle as you go up.

There are the new Nintendo Selects titles that are available for $20 each. Of those, Ocarina of Time 3D, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon are worth checking out. Also, the superb Super Mario 3D Land - a must-play if you own the system - is frequently available for less than $30 at Amazon.

My wife and I have made a lot of progress on THE WITNESS this week. (Minor spoilers ahead, though I won't reveal any puzzle solutions.) I'm pleased to say that we've activated all eleven lasers and have made our way into the mountain. The town was a particularly challenging area, as it required us to use pretty much…

That's a great story. My wife and I had a recent breakthrough with one of the "maze" puzzles - we had spent maybe 30-40 minutes looking at it and trying to figure out the solution, and just couldn't figure out what on earth we were missing. So, we wandered off to other areas and worked on other types of puzzles. A…

This weekend, I'll be playing THE WITNESS, which is really starting to get its hooks into me. I've been playing it with my wife over the past few days, and having another set of eyes has been a huge help in terms of figuring out how to approach some of these puzzles. We've committed to figuring out everything on our…

Yeah, I gave up somewhere around mission 24 or so. It's an amazing 25-hour game trapped in an 80-hour shell.

As I mentioned last week, I've been blasting through BORDERLANDS 2 for the second time. This is the first time I've played the DLC, though, and I've run into a problem: the game has gotten way too easy. I was all the way up to level 29 in the main campaign, about to start the final mission, but I decided to go ahead…

I thought I would still be playing No Man's Sky this week, but alas, my patience for that game has finally come to an end. I won't say I regret trying it – it was fairly awe-inspiring for the first 10-15 hours – but it's a bright, shiny package with a fairly hollow core, and I just can't see putting many more hours…

This is one of my biggest struggles, too - I really want to devote an inventory slot to every single element I find. Y'know, just in case! But doing that really limits my ability to pick up new things I find and ensures that I have to keep seeking out trading posts at every possible opportunity, so I'd probably be…

Mine is pretty boring: giving all of the star systems and planets Star Trek names, mostly to add to the sense that I'm on a one-man five-year-mission.

This weekend, I'll be playing NO MAN'S SKY. It's a stunning achievement… but also a little tedious. It's full of endless possibilities… but also a little repetitive. I've only been playing for ten hours or so, but I already have a pretty good sense of the limitations of this randomly-generated universe. Still, I kinda…

This weekend, I'm playing TOKYO MIRAGE SESSIONS #FE. Recently finished Chapter 4, and this game is still bonkers fun (the villain in the last chapter was Quentin Tarantino - er, I mean, Kuen Tarachino). There are a few mildly annoying elements here and there - the constant trips to Bloom Palace to upgrade your…

2016 games I've missed out on that I'd like to catch up with:

This weekend, I'll be playing TOKYO MIRAGE SESSIONS #FE, a breezy pop song of an RPG with a surprisingly deep and rewarding battle system. I've never played any of the Shin Megami Tensei games, but the bits and pieces of Fire Emblem worked into the mix are pretty entertaining and the story works just fine on its own…

I've pretty much been doing that with Woolly World. I pop the disc in every few weeks and play a level or two. However, I blasted through Rainbow Curse and Captain Toad pretty quickly.

I picked up Super Metroid on the e-shop a few months ago and haven't gotten around to it yet (I've only played the Metroid Prime games). I need to check it out soon… I've heard nothing but wonderful things.