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Can kids master the video games their parents loved?
Our video games writers get their children to play the games they loved as kids – and get to grips with the ones they adore now. Will they be bored, baffled –or hooked?
It’s half term and the Switch has already hit its parental time limit, so we have to solicit Dad who is working from home in the loft, rationing out the Nintendo and probably stroking a white cat like Blofeld. The furry textures, detailed scenes and dazzling effects are not far off movie-quality, but the upbeat vibe and cheerfully bloodless violence reminded me of the games of my youth, if not my childhood – stuff like Jet Force Gemini on the Nintendo 64. This is a tale of depth about love and loss and the sad secrets teenagers keep: the ending is profoundly emotionaland a plot twist halfway uses a track from the peerless Mogwai that is the best mix of music and game I have witnessed.
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