What we've been playing

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This week: Overboard!, a large impact remastered, and that bit from Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones where C3PO gets stuck on a conveyor belt.

If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What we’ve been playing, here’s our archive.

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I’ve always told people you can’t skip Mass Effect 1 – to the point where I think I’ve ruined playing the Mass Effect trilogy for a few friends. “Just get through this mechanically-dated game where all the characters and plotlines are still in their infancy,” I tell them. “You need to save Wrex! You need to kill Ashley!” And while this is all absolutely true, I also know I’m basically forcing them to sit through that terrible first season of Buffy on some tatty old VHS, instead of dipping in to all the better episodes to come.

I usually start a Mass Effect trilogy run every couple of years – it’s complete comfort food, ticking off every sidequest, taking the same Paragon decisions and dialogue options. But Mass Effect 1 had become increasingly hard going, to the point where not even a pandemic could make me play it again last year with the Legendary Edition imminent on the horizon.