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 time: photography, a classic shooter, and cards!
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Bryn’s wonderful piece on photography games sent me back to Umurangi Generation this week, and my favourite level, which I’ve decided is the first. The rooftop level, with the sunlight blazing around you in all those strange colours.
I don’t think this is the best level, and it’s certainly not the most complicated, but it’s the level that gets at the heart of the game for me. This is about a group of friends and a world where all of the decisions are being made by other people – generally stupidly. This rootfop feels like home – a place filled with graffiti and tape decks and music and magic markers and cherished clutter. It’s the perfect place to understand how to use the camera and the lenses, and to get to grips with what the objectives are.