I’m just here to reinforce everything he says about it, and to tell you one simple truth: The Forgotten City is the best game you’ll play in 2021. Now, if you click here, you can read a proper review for The Forgotten City from my much more sensible colleague, Levy. Cue, The Forgotten City from the bedroom development team at Modern Storyteller. Yes, the good news is that if you want something a little bit different - something cerebral - something that isn’t out to charge you £22 to download Mbappe’s Nike sweatband, then you can find it if you look hard enough. I’ll tell you where they are, they are hidden deep below the Earth, in a place that time has failed to conquer. Where is the originality? Where is the passion? Where are the new ideas? Remakes and f**king sequels - and that’s your lot. What else is in my Next-Gen collection though? Upgraded versions (only some of which are free) of God of War 3, Gears 5, Forza 7 - there are seven of them before even counting Horizon and there are four of those - Jesus Christ - and even a remake of Dark Souls, which remains just about the only reason to own a PlayStation 5. FIFA ’s awful business model is now so successful that it has effectively killed off Pro Evolution Soccer - forcing Konami to replace it with the absolutely dreadful eFootball. FIFA 22 - a game so riddled with child-baiting microtransactions that it makes me have to choke down my own vomit. Well, you see the trouble is that every time I boot up my console - especially my Xbox Series X - all I see are asinine sequels. It’s a question I also ask myself whenever I have some free gaming time - and in 2021, it’s been a particular problem for me. What will you do with yourself today? This is a question asked mainly by parents when intending to load their teenage children with tasks around the house, or by a spouse who senses that their partner looks dangerously close to having a lie in.

Battle in the forgotten city