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What We've Been Playing (Crimson Desert, PS5 Pro, Tomodachi Life, Raccoin, Returnal, The Ratline)

The Back Page · April 10, 2026

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me scroll down Tomodachi life. It came back. Is this a bit of a cult favorite for you from back in the 3DS days? Yeah, I don't know if it's like a like an all time favorite or anything. It's an interesting curio. It was certainly a great game when you're working on magazines, because just to you know, fill people in it's like, sort of Nintendo's I'd say Nintendo's take on a social sin that isn't Animal Crossing. It's a bit more like The Sims in that it's about lots of little humans living together and interacting together, except all those humans are me. So if you are a magazine editor with no games to cover, you get this game which lets you have all these weird screenshots of little celebrity caricatures doing weird things. It's gold, you know, you can spin so many features out of Tomodachi life. It's you know, the game that keeps on giving dot dot dot if you're a magazine editor. It's a little bit tricky to talk about this because the reviews

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... very shiny cyberpunk on my on my on my TV. That is that is exciting to me. So yeah, it's, it's true, Matthew. The shiny things very impressive to me. And I am curious to see what GTA six looks like me scroll down Tomodachi life. It came back. Is this a bit of a cult favorite for you from back in the 3DS days? Yeah, I don't know if it's like a like an all time favorite or anything. It's an interesting curio. It was certainly a great game when you're working on magazines, because just to you know, fill people in it's like, sort of Nintendo's I'd say Nintendo's take on a social sin that isn't Animal Crossing. It's a bit more like The Sims in that it's about lots of little humans living together and interacting together, except all those humans are me. So if you are a magazine editor with no games to cover, you get this game which lets you have all these weird screenshots of little celebrity caricatures doing weird things. It's gold, you know, you can spin so many features out of Tomodachi life. It's you know, the game that keeps on giving dot dot dot if you're a magazine editor. It's a little bit tricky to talk about this because the reviews tangled about what you can and can't talk about. I think the preview period basically covered what is in the public demo of Tomodachi life. So if you've played that, you know, some of this some ...

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