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STEAM REVIEWS ROUND-UP - WITH PETER GABRIEL!

20/5/2019

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​Steam games roundup – guest post by SUPER BAD ADVICE... with comments from Peter Gabriel!
 

"Noot noot! Hello everyone, I’m prog rock legend and latterday Colonel Sanders lookalike, P. Gabriel. I’m here today to talk to you about a subject I have no interest in at all – video games on the PC gaming service, Steam! 
 
"In fact, I think they probably only asked me because I once had a hit with a song called Steam, so it might all be an administrative error.

​"It wasn’t as good a song as Sledgehammer either, to be honest, but it did pay for me to make another 5 albums of world music no one bought. Anyway, on with the reviews and my showbiz goss! Nooooooot!"
DESCENDERS
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If elderly arcade game Enduro Racer had a child with console snowboarding effort SSX, for starters that would be a terrible perversity against nature. But: it might also be a fair bit like this 1st or 3rd person (the choice is yours, Henry) downhill mountain bike racer.
 
You pedal yourself along, pulling off stunts, skids and jumps down increasingly steep and hazard-strewn inclines. Crashes gnaw away at your limited health, and too many will mean a restart – though more minor incidents will see you respawning at checkpoints along the way once you’ve scraped yourself off of the gravel.
 
Slightly twitchy controls can make for a somewhat fiddlier time than we’d have liked, but it looks nice and is a fun little blast – and as tracks are algorithmically generated anew each time, you’ll certainly always have something different to try (although by the same token, you won’t be able to learn any given course to perfect it).

​The idea of ‘boss’ levels with particularly swollen mega-jumps tickled my amusement bulb though!
 
SCORE: 7.366 out of 10.3
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Peter says: "I wrote a song about descending once, called ‘Don’t give up’.

"Only it was about descending into a bad mood after losing your job rather than cycling (unless the job was as a paperboy, I suppose).

"Kate Bush was on it as well, but she wouldn’t sing a note until she’d eaten a whole 48-pack of Weetabix, dry. I guess that’s how she gets her lovely deep voice, but she’s ker-ayzeeee!!"

THE MYSTERY OF WOOLLEY MOUNTAIN
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Also available on Switch, my alarm bells started ringing on this one when it loaded up and looked an awful lot like those fake flash pop-over games that appear sometimes on webpages that are actually adverts, and then when you click on one you accidentally agree to buy a toaster at 1000% interest over 4 years.
 
Anyway, Woolley Mountain isn’t a flash game or a £900 kitchen appliance scam. But it is, regrettably, a bit poo. A decidedly old school point-and-click adventure, it’s hamstrung by non-obvious puzzles you’ll have to bludgeon your way through more often than not by just trying every option, ‘funny’ dialogue that just grates after a while, and some background music that gets irritating a bit too rapidly.
 
Consequently, I can only really recommend it unless you get a lot of jollies from this particular genre, or you’re a huge fan of occasional British pop culture references, like seeing a ZX Spectrum onscreen (wheee).

Cheap, but not quite cheerful enough I’m afraid. 
 
SCORE: 52.5556% out of 100.00004%


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Peter says: "I buy my Mum a new toaster with the proceeds I make on royalties every time Genesis do a tour and play the old songs they did when I was in the band, and I don’t even have to lift a finger.

"How’s that for an ‘invisible touch’ eh?

"In your face, Phil Collings!"

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WHAT NEVER WAS
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Well one thing’s for sure – while this game may be short and sweet, it couldn’t be any more of a bargain given it comes for the price of £0. Yes: absolutely free. But don’t assume that low, low price means it’s a pig’s dirty elbow.
 
Sadly not starring 80s pop act Was, Not Was (although if it did that could have got confusing VERY quickly), What Never Was is a first-person puzzle adventure in the mould of other walking simulator games like Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture and The Witness. 
 
Here, you play a young girl cleaning out your grandad’s loft (mercifully, not a euphemism) and discovering things aren’t what they seem (even more mercifully, not meaning you discover a stash of well-thumbed ‘adult entertainment’ magazines and a gimp suit behind the box with the xmas decorations in).
 
There’s more than a suggestion this might be a very in-depth teaser for a bigger game to come, as it winds up a little too abruptly and with ends very much still loose.

​But with decent voicework, visuals and puzzles, plus that sweet zero outlay, there are far worse experiences to while away a couple of hours on. Ideal for a commute, or if you really need to spend a worryingly long time in the lavatory and could do with a distraction.
 
SCORE: 800 and 2/3rds out of 1000 and 15/16ths

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Peter says: "I turned my loft into a recording studio.

​"One day, I rented it out to a young boyband called U2 making their first album, and they completely trashed the place – after they left it was totally covered in half-eaten cheese slices and dog hair.

"Rock bands today, eh? I bet they’ll never make it big like me and my 13 chart-topping albums. Noooooot!"

3 Comments
David W
20/5/2019 12:57:14 pm

Q: What type of games does Peter Gabriel like?

A: Open world! (Games without frontiers.)

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Starbuck
21/5/2019 06:57:45 pm

Q.What newly-purchased videogames console did Peter Gabriel leave following his tour in America?

A. His Genesis.

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Voiced By Guides
21/5/2019 11:20:02 pm

Why couldn't Peter Gabriel connect to his steam account? Because his LAN was down on broadband.

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