How do you get people to pay attention to music? Everyone having access to the majority of all recorded music ever has turned it into background noise. Before the internet you might have trawled record fairs for that one bootleg album of rare cuts, going home and listening intently to the jewel you’d finally unearthed. Now? Everything is a few clicks away. All of which makes one relatively new trend in video games very welcome: the ‘interactive album’. The most famous example is the amazing Sayonara Wild Hearts, in which you zip through a neon-drenched virtual world to Daniel Olsén and Jonathan Engkickass’ kickass synth-pop. The act of playing means you don’t get distracted and the rhythm of the gameplay tangibly connects you to the music. And so to Team Lazerbeam’s Teenage Blob.
Maid Of Sker is a first-person stealth-horror title set in the late 1800s featuring some of the best audio work I’ve come across in the genre, Maid of Sker is a solid and spooky title based on a folkloric, Welsh tale.
Jenny LeClue Detectivu - Switch - eShop £15 https://joe-russ-saiu.squarespace.com Jenny LeClue Detectivu was successfully funded on Kickstarter in August 2015, with nearly 4000 backers the campaign raised over $105,000 and was initially released on PC. You play as Jenny LeClue, an aspiring young detective and obsessive pursuer of the truth. The story is told through the eyes of the writer of the Jenny LeClue books as he is tasked with spicing things up in his long-running and beloved series of books. The problem is that nothing exciting ever happens in the world of Jenny LeClue and she longs (along with the readers) for a really exciting and juicy adventure to get their teeth into.
During the writing of this exciting 39th book, Jenny gets more than she bargains for when her mother is accused of murder!
