Sunday Gold almost feels like a reshuffle of Final Fantasy VII. You’ve got the corporate overlord and his secret labs gutting an over-industrialised city, the rag-tag freedom fighters – complete with disaffected loner and bruiser lady with a heart of gold – and a secret base under a dive bar to return to. It’s red meat, classic videogame stuff. The game’s initial trailers drew me in with its arresting neo-’70s sci-fi setting, but the most refreshing thing about Sunday Gold is its combo of old school JRPG gameplay with point-and-click adventuring.
The trend in newer RPGs (I’m thinking Pillars of Eternity, Divinity 2) is to bring you back to full health in-between fights, letting players focus on the tactical minutia of each battle. Sunday Gold instead tasks you with treating each of its three chapterheists as a long war of attrition, managing party members’ health, stress, action points, and consumables, negotiating Sierra-style exploration and item gathering puzzles as well as dust-ups with corporate security without any real breaks.
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SUNDOWNER
Wipe out a cult with one bullet in CHILDREN OF THE SUN
KENWAY AHEAD
Smooth sailing and pearly whites in ASSASSIN'S CREED IV BLACK FLAG
COUNTER INTUITIVE
PICK & POKE your way through this gorgeous tabletop roguelite
DOUBLE TROUBLE
Whatever happened to MULTI-GPU setups?
MICROPHONES
A good microphone can be the difference between a professional sounding triumph, or a crackly, tinny disaster
BORING PLATFORMER
In a good way! The superb drilling of PEPPER GRINDER is sublimely chaotic
MEIER'S BASTARDISATION
MILLENNIA attempts a spirited but messy coup to Civ's throne
LOOSE MORALS
BROKEN ROADS: a cerebral narrative adventure
CROWN WARS: THE BLACK PRINCE
Tactical medieval combat with a gory edge
NO REST FOR THE WICKED
One of the smartest Soulslikes I've played in a long time