28th April, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: coffee, nostalgia, and nostalgic horror.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Coffee Talk 2, Xbox
As ever, it’s tipping it down in Seattle. It’s late but the place is still quite empty. Officer Jorji is fretting about how to get home in a hurry when a new customer comes in. Tall, blonde, rams horns sprouting neatly from both sides of their head.
They sit down. This is Lucas. They tell me they used to love coffee, but their stomach turned on it. They miss the boldness of it as well as the caffeine. Any recommendations.
I suggest Matcha. Isn’t that just tea, Lucas asks. Kind of, I say, but stronger. I make them a Matcha – bright green glowing in the cup. Lucas pulls out their smartphone to take a picture of it, and as they do I reach forward, on the other side of the screen, to take a screenshot of the moment.
Fortnite, Xbox
It’s never a bad time popping back into Fornite for an hour or two, but it can be quite strange. I know this game better than any other by this point, but a few months away – deadlines, a big bit of work, my daughter playing more Among Us or Minecraft in the evening – and I come back in to find I’ve lost my bearings a bit.