Infamous: Second Sun (PS4 Pro)

Not as good as I remembered but still a very pretty 7/10 and no doubt a technical showcase for what the PS4 could do near launch. Lots of fun just tearing around Sucker Punch's recreation of Seattle with new powers, and I quite like the good karma story arc (the evil karma route feels even less natural than in Infamous 1+2). Problem is the bland open-world mission structure and drawn-out boss fights, especially the last that forces you to finish it with what might be the dullest of the four powers.

Infamous 2
Best of the 3 games.
Looks a lot better then the first one. Maps are a lot better as well, not as dull as the first game. Powers are great, slight improvement on the moment. Which was already good in the first game.
Story is good, just don't like the new voice actor for Cole.
Good & evil choices have a lot more impact, then in the 3rd game.
Would have loved a remaster collection. But Sucker Punch says they have no plans to revisit the series anytime soon

Broken Sword – Shadow of the Templars: Reforged (Nintendo Switch)

The last point-and-click games I played were the Switch versions of Syberia 1 and 2, and I burnt out by the end (though I still love the first), I didn't expect to enjoy this so much but it's still the same interesting mystery and endearing characters, just with overhauled visuals and a more aggressive hint system if you enable it.

You've got a hints menu that was in the older "directors cut" version, but if you wait long enough, you'll get in-game icons spelling out the way forward. Thankfully, the game always had reasonably logical and self-contained puzzles, so I only had to use it a handful of times. If you were ever curious about this classic, they've done a great job remastering the visuals, music, and most of the voice lines, and it runs perfectly on Switch (so probably will on other platforms too).

The story is still intriguing and blends real history with conspiracy, and though Nico has a limited role in the first game, George is a great protagonist that tackles every situation with enthusiasm you can't help but appreciate. The game has so many amusing observations and optional dialogue, including the ability to discuss random inventory items with everybody. The very first puzzle item, a sewer key, must have a hundred lines of dialogue alone.

Immortals of Aveum - Garbage.

Dishonored Definitive Edition
Still a great game!
Not much of an upgrade though. Game looks pretty much the same as the previous gen, but love the art style. & the load times when you die are terrible.
Dunwall City Trials are basically challenge maps, lots of fun.
Did not enjoy ‎The Knife of Dunwall. Felt like the game was pushing you for High Chaos. The Brigmore Witches was better.

Dishonored 2
Looks better then the first one, but still keeps that great art style.
Load times are still terrible.
First time I played as Corvo, this time as Emily. Story wise its better as Emily.
Powers are a bit different in the game. But you move a lot faster, pouncing on your enemies before they know what hit them.

Stalker: Shadow of Chornobyl (the console port!)

Wanted to stop before the end of Stalker 2 to see if the post-launch patches would fix a few bugged side quests and ended up sinking 15 hours into completing the 2007 original on console.

Given how staggering unoptimised and broken it was at launch on PC, it runs well on console with few issues. All major quests have no more scripting bugs, though the dynamic quest system still starts and ends request randomly when the quest-giver was eaten/shot/walked into an anomaly while you're doing something else.

Still a tough but fair "hardcore" shooter that's more than happy to leave you with no viable way to survive if you don't prepare by hunting for new gear, artefacts, and stocking up on meds/ammo.

Once thing I do appreciate over the sequel is how a smaller world is a busier world, even if it makes little sense how quickly areas are repopulated by faction members and mutants.

Dishonored Death of the Outsider
Basically DLC for the second game. & like the DLC from the first game, its not so good.
Theres not even a chaos meter in this one, just kill everybody.
If you want to complete a contract in this one level. You have to kill everyone!
Its still fun, but its even more fun trying NOT to kill everything that moves.

Stellar Blade, got the platinum after shelving it for a few months

STALKER: Clear Sky (the console port on XSX)

A weird prequel that I enjoyed well enough until the final hours, which are just like Shadow of Chornobyl: a gruelling gauntlet spent saving and reloading as you can die almost instantly in firefights.

It's not a bad story and does a decent job introducing and wiping out a new faction, it explains why some factions end up entrenched in certain locations, and it even explains what happened to Strelok leading up to the opening of Shadow of Chornobyl.

Gameplay wise, it has a strong focus on faction battles to the detriment of everything else - but it also introduces several important mechanics like gear repair and upgrades, periodic emissions, and fewer but more powerful artifacts. Mutants roam about and feature in a few missions, they often feel like an afterthought as the story revolves around human-on-human firefights as the protagonist "Scar" (who reappears in STALKER 2) looks to open a way to the CNPP bypassing the "Brain Scorcher" barrier in the first game.

It's not mandatory, but you can even join factions in each region and the missions you complete for them improve their control and numbers. It's weird in the sense you can almost make the zone feel too safe, especially as you go underground only one or twice, and never into the mutant and anomaly infested X-labs.

I can understand why Clear Sky is disliked or treated as the worst of the original trilogy, but if you enjoyed the survival-horror/tactical-shooter gameplay of the original, it's not a terrible choice to scratch the same itch.

Diablo 4.

Stray
Great little indie game!
You don't just play as a cat, theres a bit more to it