{"id":1877008,"date":"2026-04-11T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1877008"},"modified":"2026-04-11T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:00:00","slug":"what-weve-been-playing-i-do-not-have-three-thumbs-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1877008","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"features\" data-article-group=\"feature\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/features\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Features<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">A few of the things that have us hooked this week.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/thumbs-wwbp.jpg?width=690&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Three black-and-white thumbs-upping hands with white borders on a sunshine yellow background.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"thumbs-wwbp.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Adobe Stock \/ Prostock-studio<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Robert Purchese avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"user-9946-originalxoriginal-14-03-23.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"features\"><br \/>\n                    Feature<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/robert-purchese\">Robert Purchese<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      Associate Editor<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-04-11T07:00:00+00:00\">April 11, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<div class=\"comments\">\n      <a class=\"comments__link comments-bubble\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/what-weve-been-playing-three-thumbs-nintendo?view=comments\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n          40 comments<br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"0957bcd6-92e6-49cf-9371-4e9f5fa0d940\" data-name=\"LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" data-follow-text=\"Follow LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow LEGO Batman: The Videogame\" title=\"Follow LEGO Batman: The Videogame\"><br \/>\n  Follow LEGO Batman: The Videogame<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<h2>11th April<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Kelsey battles a terrifying enemy in real-life letting agents; Marie breaks her personal Jack and Daxter best &#8211; bravo!; and Bertie decides to do something he never thought he&#8217;d do and focus.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been playing this week?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don&#8217;t have to! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">The What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> has you covered.<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon Champions, Nintendo Switch 2<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Pokemon Champions - Official Overview Trailer | Pokemon Presents July 2025\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmK964mnh1w?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KmK964mnh1w\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Pokemon Champions &#8211; Official Overview Trailer | Pokemon Presents July 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmK964mnh1w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve admittedly been slacking when it comes to playing games in my personal time lately, as I&#8217;ve instead been playing mind games with letting agents galore in an attempt to find a new house to live in. Riveting stuff. Though I did make some time to try and get into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-champions\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a> this week, and, well, it&#8217;s not very good. I love battling Pok\u00e9mon as much as the next person, and there being limits involved to the Pok\u00e9mon you can recruit makes things a little more interesting, allowing me to experiment with what I have rather than cloning meta teams in Showdown. But it&#8217;s slow, connectivity issues are rife, and I think I&#8217;ll return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-pokopia\">Pokopia<\/a> as soon as the novelty of climbing up the ranked ladder wears off.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/tomodachi-life\">Tomodachi Life<\/a>: Living the Dream arrives next week and I absolutely can&#8217;t wait to share my cursed Mii creations with everyone.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Kelsey<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Lego Batman: The Videogame, PC (Steam)<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight - Official Cinematic Trailer | IGN Fan Fest 2026\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WiGYZN5QvbM?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/WiGYZN5QvbM\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight &#8211; Official Cinematic Trailer | IGN Fan Fest 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>There is of course a new Lego Batman game coming out, and very good it looks too.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WiGYZN5QvbM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First of all, a quick Jak and Daxter update from last week. Without counting the unskippable cutscenes, I managed to get it finished under my goal-time of five hours! I did it in around four-and-half hours; the timer said four hours fifteen minutes, but I like to account for stopwatch errors. It was a really smooth run, though the same part always trips me up: the blue-ring run in the Precursor Basin. One year, I&#8217;ll master it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/lego-batman-videogame\">Lego Batman: The Videogame<\/a>. I&#8217;ve become very used to voice lines being used in Lego games, so it was a surprise when this one relies solely on music and grunts, or smug &#8220;ah ha&#8221; noises. Then again, that&#8217;s also one of the reasons I&#8217;m finding it charming. That and I&#8217;m still finding joy when certain villains appear &#8211; despite knowing this is a Batman game and Batman villains will appear! &#8211; and in the amusingly cartoon ends to their devious plots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely showing its age in a few areas, particularly in some of the in-game responses to actions or puzzles being solved, but it&#8217;s still an enjoyable way to spend a free hour or two.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Marie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Slay the Spire 2 and Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 3, PC and Switch 2<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Nintendo Switch My Way - Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3 Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WIfjEpM0nc?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8WIfjEpM0nc\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Nintendo Switch My Way &#8211; Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3 Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8WIfjEpM0nc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to focus, which isn&#8217;t like me. I&#8217;ve never actually made it all the way to Ascension 10 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/slay-the-spire\">Slay the Spire<\/a> 1 or 2, and I feel like there&#8217;s associated bragging rights that comes with doing that, and now I&#8217;ve decided I want them. So I&#8217;m doing it. Or rather: I&#8217;m trying to do it. And I&#8217;ve decided the divisive Regent character will be my vessel through which to realise it. I&#8217;m on Ascension 2 and counting; we&#8217;ll see where I am next week.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time &#8211; not exactly the same time &#8211; I&#8217;ve been trying out Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 3 on Switch 2. This isn&#8217;t my usual jam, I must admit, but my partner bought it because it has co-op and here we are. I&#8217;m&#8230; warming to it. I didn&#8217;t like the saccharine start but now we&#8217;re actually playing and sucking things through the very satisfying ghost-vacuum, or whatever it&#8217;s called, it&#8217;s much more enjoyable. I&#8217;m also a big fan of Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;I&#8217;m terrified&#8217; animation which, with this being a haunted mansion, plays very often.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not a big fan of a control scheme that maps the torch&#8217;s movement to the right thumbstick while also requiring the same thumb to use the face buttons. I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Xeno War update,  PC<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"No Man's Sky - Official Xeno Arena Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7uysyDBkE0?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/t7uysyDBkE0\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">No Man&#8217;s Sky &#8211; Official Xeno Arena Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7uysyDBkE0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>What&#8217;s next, I chortled to myself after No Man&#8217;s Sky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-customisable-trucks-hauling-and-gravity-guns\">suddenly turned garbage collection sim<\/a> at the start of this year, <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>?! What a joke this entirely fictitious exchange with myself seemed at the time. But three months later, that&#8217;s exactly where we are. No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-goes-pokemon-in-new-xeno-arena-update\">new Xeno Arena update<\/a> really <em>is<\/em> Pok\u00e9mon, or at least an amusingly close approximation &#8211; complete with fizzingly energetic battle music while it all goes down. And it turns out developer Hello Games wasn&#8217;t joking when it called its new creature-battling system an &#8220;entire multiplayer game all of its own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"3\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, all those procedurally generated creatures you&#8217;ll find fallomping around planets &#8211; those fluffballs, those metallic skyscrapers on legs, those sentient anuses &#8211; all have elemental affinities based on their planet of origin, as well as associated stats. And while I&#8217;m only a few battles in, and still trying to wrap my head around its slightly unorthodox version of space rock-paper-scissors, I&#8217;m having a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Nok\u00e9man Sky (feel free to use that Hello Games) is slick, ridiculous, and weirdly more-ish &#8211; particularly when you win a match and get to fiddle around with your critter&#8217;s DNA to boost one of its stats. I&#8217;ve never really bothered with the pets in my collection that much before, but all of a sudden it&#8217;s like they have purpose and presence, and maybe I&#8217;m even feeling a bit of a bond as I watch them grow. So well done Hello Games, you&#8217;ve done it again. Your wily unpredictability has pulled me back in.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Matt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<h2>11th April<\/h2>\n<p>Hello and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we&#8217;ve been playing. This week, Kelsey battles a terrifying enemy in real-life letting agents; Marie breaks her personal Jack and Daxter best &#8211; bravo!; and Bertie decides to do something he never thought he&#8217;d do and focus.<\/p>\n<p>What have you been playing this week?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another question: do you remember what you were playing last week? You don&#8217;t have to! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/topics\/what-weve-been-playing\">The What We&#8217;ve Been Playing archive<\/a> has you covered.<\/p>\n<h2>Pok\u00e9mon Champions, Nintendo Switch 2<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Pokemon Champions - Official Overview Trailer | Pokemon Presents July 2025\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KmK964mnh1w?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/KmK964mnh1w\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Pokemon Champions &#8211; Official Overview Trailer | Pokemon Presents July 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KmK964mnh1w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve admittedly been slacking when it comes to playing games in my personal time lately, as I&#8217;ve instead been playing mind games with letting agents galore in an attempt to find a new house to live in. Riveting stuff. Though I did make some time to try and get into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-champions\">Pok\u00e9mon Champions<\/a> this week, and, well, it&#8217;s not very good. I love battling Pok\u00e9mon as much as the next person, and there being limits involved to the Pok\u00e9mon you can recruit makes things a little more interesting, allowing me to experiment with what I have rather than cloning meta teams in Showdown. But it&#8217;s slow, connectivity issues are rife, and I think I&#8217;ll return to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/pokemon-pokopia\">Pokopia<\/a> as soon as the novelty of climbing up the ranked ladder wears off.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/tomodachi-life\">Tomodachi Life<\/a>: Living the Dream arrives next week and I absolutely can&#8217;t wait to share my cursed Mii creations with everyone.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Kelsey<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Lego Batman: The Videogame, PC (Steam)<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight - Official Cinematic Trailer | IGN Fan Fest 2026\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WiGYZN5QvbM?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/WiGYZN5QvbM\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight &#8211; Official Cinematic Trailer | IGN Fan Fest 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>There is of course a new Lego Batman game coming out, and very good it looks too.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WiGYZN5QvbM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First of all, a quick Jak and Daxter update from last week. Without counting the unskippable cutscenes, I managed to get it finished under my goal-time of five hours! I did it in around four-and-half hours; the timer said four hours fifteen minutes, but I like to account for stopwatch errors. It was a really smooth run, though the same part always trips me up: the blue-ring run in the Precursor Basin. One year, I&#8217;ll master it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/lego-batman-videogame\">Lego Batman: The Videogame<\/a>. I&#8217;ve become very used to voice lines being used in Lego games, so it was a surprise when this one relies solely on music and grunts, or smug &#8220;ah ha&#8221; noises. Then again, that&#8217;s also one of the reasons I&#8217;m finding it charming. That and I&#8217;m still finding joy when certain villains appear &#8211; despite knowing this is a Batman game and Batman villains will appear! &#8211; and in the amusingly cartoon ends to their devious plots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely showing its age in a few areas, particularly in some of the in-game responses to actions or puzzles being solved, but it&#8217;s still an enjoyable way to spend a free hour or two.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Marie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Slay the Spire 2 and Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 3, PC and Switch 2<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Nintendo Switch My Way - Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3 Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8WIfjEpM0nc?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/8WIfjEpM0nc\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Nintendo Switch My Way &#8211; Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3 Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8WIfjEpM0nc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to focus, which isn&#8217;t like me. I&#8217;ve never actually made it all the way to Ascension 10 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/slay-the-spire\">Slay the Spire<\/a> 1 or 2, and I feel like there&#8217;s associated bragging rights that comes with doing that, and now I&#8217;ve decided I want them. So I&#8217;m doing it. Or rather: I&#8217;m trying to do it. And I&#8217;ve decided the divisive Regent character will be my vessel through which to realise it. I&#8217;m on Ascension 2 and counting; we&#8217;ll see where I am next week.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time &#8211; not exactly the same time &#8211; I&#8217;ve been trying out Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 3 on Switch 2. This isn&#8217;t my usual jam, I must admit, but my partner bought it because it has co-op and here we are. I&#8217;m&#8230; warming to it. I didn&#8217;t like the saccharine start but now we&#8217;re actually playing and sucking things through the very satisfying ghost-vacuum, or whatever it&#8217;s called, it&#8217;s much more enjoyable. I&#8217;m also a big fan of Luigi&#8217;s &#8216;I&#8217;m terrified&#8217; animation which, with this being a haunted mansion, plays very often.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not a big fan of a control scheme that maps the torch&#8217;s movement to the right thumbstick while also requiring the same thumb to use the face buttons. I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Bertie<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s Xeno War update,  PC<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"No Man's Sky - Official Xeno Arena Trailer\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7uysyDBkE0?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/t7uysyDBkE0\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">No Man&#8217;s Sky &#8211; Official Xeno Arena Trailer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7uysyDBkE0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>What&#8217;s next, I chortled to myself after No Man&#8217;s Sky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-customisable-trucks-hauling-and-gravity-guns\">suddenly turned garbage collection sim<\/a> at the start of this year, <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>?! What a joke this entirely fictitious exchange with myself seemed at the time. But three months later, that&#8217;s exactly where we are. No Man&#8217;s Sky&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/no-mans-sky-goes-pokemon-in-new-xeno-arena-update\">new Xeno Arena update<\/a> really <em>is<\/em> Pok\u00e9mon, or at least an amusingly close approximation &#8211; complete with fizzingly energetic battle music while it all goes down. And it turns out developer Hello Games wasn&#8217;t joking when it called its new creature-battling system an &#8220;entire multiplayer game all of its own&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"3\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now, all those procedurally generated creatures you&#8217;ll find fallomping around planets &#8211; those fluffballs, those metallic skyscrapers on legs, those sentient anuses &#8211; all have elemental affinities based on their planet of origin, as well as associated stats. And while I&#8217;m only a few battles in, and still trying to wrap my head around its slightly unorthodox version of space rock-paper-scissors, I&#8217;m having a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Nok\u00e9man Sky (feel free to use that Hello Games) is slick, ridiculous, and weirdly more-ish &#8211; particularly when you win a match and get to fiddle around with your critter&#8217;s DNA to boost one of its stats. I&#8217;ve never really bothered with the pets in my collection that much before, but all of a sudden it&#8217;s like they have purpose and presence, and maybe I&#8217;m even feeling a bit of a bond as I watch them grow. So well done Hello Games, you&#8217;ve done it again. Your wily unpredictability has pulled me back in.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Matt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"poll_wrapper\" data-fixed=\"true\" data-hashid data-init=\"false\" data-poll-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Features What we&#8217;ve been playing &#8211; &#8220;I do not have three thumbs, Nintendo&#8221; A few of the things that have us hooked this week. 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