Game of the month: The Last of Us, Splatoon 3 and Monkey Island

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Game of the month – At the end of the month, afrilatest will discuss the most important games that have appeared. With this time The Last of Us Part I, Splatoon 3, Return to Monkey Island and Shovel Knight Dig.

Shovel Knight Dig (Game of the month)

• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, pc, Apple Arcade
• Rating: 4 stars

Like a small, comical knight with a shovel, you dig deeper and deeper into the earth. The game seems to come from the nineties with its pixel dolls, but is smoother and more varied animated.

Shovel Knight Dig is a so-called ‘roguelike’. You try to get as far as possible into a randomly generated level, until you go off and have to try again from the very beginning. The more often you play, the better you get at the game and the further you get.

The game is based on the previously released Shovel Knight, a game that brought in a lot of money with its crowdfunding campaign. This spin-off is less extensive than its predecessor, but still manages to leave a nice impression

Games of the month

The Last of Us Part I

• Platform: PlayStation 5
• Rating: 3 stars

This is already the second time that Sony releases a revised version of The Last of Us. The zombie game originally appeared for the PlayStation 3, after which it received a remaster for the PlayStation 4 in 2014. The Last of Us Part I is a remake this time, where the game has been put in the new.

The end result looks beautiful. The game is now more in line with The Last of Us Part II, which previously appeared on PlayStation 4 and 5. Firefights also feel a little better than the original.

However, the game does not differ very much from its predecessor, which makes it difficult to find the added value in this game. There is one feeling in particular: it seems a bit too early to make this game all over again. It’s like picking up an eight-year-old movie, casting new actors, and re-recording it.

Splatoon 3

• Platform: Nintendo Switch
• Rating: 4 stars

Nintendo’s shooting game series Splatoon has received a third part this month. Broadly speaking, the idea behind this game is the same as with the previous two editions. You are divided into two teams, shoot at each other with paint guns and try to paint as much of the level as possible in your color.

It’s clearly Nintendo’s answer to a normal violent genre. Where games like Call of Duty let you shoot enemy soldiers, Splatoon with its squid and paint guns is more innocent.

Moreover, the bar is lower, because even someone who aims badly can contribute by painting the levels.

The differences with Splatoon 2 are in the details. The lobbying system has been changed to make it easier to meet up with other players. In addition, the Japanese game company promises to add new content more often.

There are new weapons and levels, and a new story to play solo. But at its core, this is the same Splatoon you know from part two.

Return to Monkey Island

• Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PC
• Rating: 4 stars

After a long time, there is a new part in the Monkey Island game series, which once started in the nineties on the PC. This is also the first part made by director Dave Grossman since the second part from 1991. As a result, it is one of the few games that seems to carry the inspiration of the first two parts with it.

Return to Monkey Island expands on the story of the original games, starring wanna pirate Guybrush Threepwood as he tries to uncover the secret of a mysterious island.

It’s a game that doesn’t take itself too seriously, with a lot of jokes and bickering between characters.

There is hardly any fighting and jumping either: you play Monkey Island mainly by talking to characters and solving simple puzzles. As a result, the pace is quite slow – a big contrast to many other games we played this month.

Valkyrie Elysium

• Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC
• Rating: 3.5 stars

The sequel to an old Japanese role-playing game that appeared for the PlayStation is completely different in this new part. You play a so-called Valkyrie: a living fighting machine in the service of the Norse god Odin, who travels through a country torn apart by a war between gods.

The game is especially reminiscent of the previously successful NieR: Automata. Both are action games, placing you in an abandoned, mysterious world and giving the lead role to a naïve fighting machine that discovers that nothing is what it seems.

It can hardly be a coincidence: both games are from the same publisher, which unexpectedly had great success with NieR.

Valkyrie Elysium never reaches the level of that game, but it is still a great game to sink your teeth into. Fighting is fluid and the world is atmospheric, although visually the game sometimes drops some stitches.

FIFA 23 will also be released this month. Because we have not yet been able to test this game, we have not yet included it in this section. A separate review will follow later.

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