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Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Windows, Xbox, Mac Release Date: 16th August 2024  Farewell North is a masterclass in storytelling by developer  Kyle Banks that takes you on a physical and emotional journey through the remote islands of northern Scotland. In Farewell North you play as a border collie called Chesley as you help your human through grief and support them as they try to move forward with their life. The game really nails the feeling of being a dog. Not that I have ever been a dog, but you know what I mean! You are encouraged to explore, dig, and chase wildlife to help your human companion on their journey. I particularly liked a mechanic where in certain areas a path may be blocked, so you have to look at it through the gap between two trees to unblock the way. It is almost like this game explains all the bizarre behavior that dogs have, and made me see things from a dog's eye view!  There were a few moments in which you had to herd sheep and these sections I di...

Eeh Bah Gum, I'm well chuffed! Thank Goodness  Thank Goodness You're Here, is here!   It's reet grand! If you struggled to read that, then get used to it because this game is apologetically Yorkshire and I absolutely love it!   This is the most I have laughed whilst playing a video game since South Park: The Fractured But Whole! Although it only takes around 2 hours to complete, Coal Supper packs a lot of laughs and a lot of surprisingly beautiful animation into your short visit to the town of Barnsworth. So the 'plot' (to use that term incredibly loosely) is that you play as a traveling salesman who just arrived at the northern town of Barnsworth. The locals will ask you to do various different tasks for them, which normally involves slapping everything and everyone in sight! The actual stories come from watching the locals as they go about their weird and wonderful lives in this fever dream of a town! Throughout the game you basically go around Barnsworth on a loo...