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Cynni's BlogReview – Lost Records (tape 1: Bloom) 🎮 Warning ⚠️ this post will contain spoilers! Continue at own "risk"! Ello sweet gaming Friendos 💜 hihi, that's how I usually start my gaming toots on Mastodon. This post is partly based on my Toot about the game, with some additional bits for the blog. Recently, I've been playing the new Don't Nod game, Lost Records. The first part had been released, which was "Tape 1: Bloom". This post will contain spoilers, so don't click the "read more" part of you want to enjoy this game without having seen any spoilers! […] <a href="https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/review-lost-records-tape-1-bloom-%f0%9f%8e%ae/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/review-lost-records-tape-1-bloom-%f0%9f%8e%ae/</a>

deKayPhogs (PS5): COMPLETED!One good thing about PS++++++++++, is that in amongst all the crap games and shovelware there are a load of co-op games that are fun for me to play with my daughter. It’s because of an afternoon where we were looking for something to play together that we were trawling through the library and spotted Phogs (or possibly “PHOGS!”), and now we’ve completed it.In many ways, this game falls into a similar category as other wonky-physics titles like Human Fall Flat and Totally Reliable Delivery Service, in that you have inaccurate control over a character and have to manipulate objects in the environment in order to progress. An additional hinderance here, however, is that each player controls either end of a double-ended dog. Imagine a sausage dog with a head at each end, Push-Me-Pull-You style, with each independently moved by each player. You can make things cosy by sharing a single controller and having a stick each, but we were fine to go with a pad apiece.<a href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Phogs-6-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a> Anyway. That’s all logistics waffle – what about the game?It’s a sort of platformy-puzzley game, where your phog has to reach a big snake at the end of each level who swallows you and moves you on to the next. In the way are gaps you have to fill, plants you have to water, items you have to collect, water spouts you have to plug, and dark areas you have to light up (or vice versa). Mostly, these are achieved by grabbing something with one or both of your phog heads. For example, there’s a watermelon patch that needs watering so the watermelon can grow and create a platform for you to progress. Nearby is a pipe with water coming out. You grab on to the pipe with one phogmouth and then the other phogmouth becomes a hose, and – since you can also stretch your phog – you can use this to reach the patch and water the watermelon.Cooperation is absolutely key, as you can imagine, especially on the many “swing over this gap” sections, where you can grab hold of a hook (or something) with one phoghead then swing the other phoghead to the next hook and grab hold, repeating until you’ve swung all the way over. Timing is often critical so we found ourselves counting to three a lot. Thankfully, you can’t really die and if you fall off the world (which is inevitable give the wonky physics and lack of coordination) you don’t lose much progress at all.<a href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Phogs-11-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>It’s not a very long game, with us finishing it in about three hours, but we enjoyed it and the silly hats you can unlock (which do nothing except adorn a head). There’s a fair amount of variety across the four main worlds, with bosses of a sort on each. The “night and day” world has some especially clever light-and-dark, awake-and-asleep and perspective puzzles and events. The final world also has a short section where there’s a big change to the game mechanics, although I won’t spoil it. Oh, and eating all the food you find so you get phat phogs never gets old or boring.It’s nice and colourful and mostly low stress (unlike, say, Overcooked), and we didn’t end up fighting each other or anything so that’s probably a recommendation?<a href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Phogs-38-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a>

deKayMoving Out 2 (PS5): COMPLETED!Looking for a co-op game to play with my daughter (and mourning the lack of yearly, or even twice-yearly Lego games), I stumbled across this on PS++++++++ (or however many plusses I have). We’d enjoyed <a href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/2022/07/moving-out-ps5-completed/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the first game</a> a while back so why not?It’s more of the same, really. You have to pick up and carry (or throw) furniture from houses to your truck, sometimes you have to do the reverse, and other times you’ve weird requirements like chucking certain things in portals or catching farm animals. All against the clock, and frequently with doors that are one-way, platforms that move, drones, and things that need to be broken (or not broken) in order to progress. With a multidimensional rift you have to sew back up with the help of some IT gnomes or something. Obviously.<a href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Moving-Out-2_20240817173817-scaled.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>There are plenty of silly moments that made us laugh, and it’s all very stupid in all the right ways. Much like the first game. Oh, and toilets. Of course there are toilets. There’s a whole level where you have to collect them. A++ would play again.<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a>

deKayAnimal Well (PS5): COMPLETED!What if Jet Set Willy was a Metroidvania and it was a still all pixels but all the pixels had thousands of colours and there was amazing light and shadow effects and you got special toys that gave you new skills and it was all creepy and weird and there were ghosts and rooms in total darkness and there were puzzles and switches and you could warp around the map by […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vS" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vS</a>

deKayFAR: Changing Tides (PS5): COMPLETED!Remember a while back I completed a game called FAR: Lone Sails? If not you can just click that link. I refer to it because the ending of that game was a bit of a damp squib and didn’t make any sense. Turns out, this sequel is actually sort of the other half of the game and that’s why.Whereas in Lone Sails you had a land-boat where you travel […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vE" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vE</a>

deKayStreets of Rage 4 (PS5): COMPLETED!Oh would you look – a PS+ monthly game that’s actually good and I don’t already own! How rare.And yes, it is good! It’s a long awaited sequel to the original Mega Drive fighting games, if we ignore the Fighting Force game which was obviously supposed to be Streets of Rage 4 for the Saturn anyway. And even that was […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/streets-of-rage/" target="_blank">#streetsOfRage</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vC" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3vC</a>

deKayNour (PS5): COMPLETED!What even is this? I’ve completed it and I’m still not sure. I think it fits into the same sort of category as something like Electroplankton or Noby Noby Boy where although there is a goal of sorts, it’s the toy you play with along the way that’s the real game.In Nour, you’re given a large restaurant table, and each plate on it […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3uE" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3uE</a>

deKayEarth Defense Force: Iron Rain (PS5): COMPLETED!Although I’d had access to this via PS++++++++ for some time, I’d never downloaded it as I, erroneously, thought it was that vertically scrolling shooter EDF spin-off rather than a “normal” third-person co-op giant insect/robot apocalypse game. Then I noticed the screenshots and realised I was thinking of Earth Defense Force: Wing Diver The […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/earth-defense-force/" target="_blank">#earthDefenseForce</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3uk" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3uk</a>

deKaySuperliminal (PS5): COMPLETED!Imagine a cross between that weird hypercube animation optical illusion thing and The Stanley Parable, and you’re some of the way to understanding Superliminal.Like The Stanley Parable, it’s a narrative discovery game in a series of corridors, offices, warehouses and… other places. Whereas Stanley is trapped in a Groundhog Day style scenario, […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3tW" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3tW</a>

deKayTinykin (PS5): COMPLETED!Well, what a lovely surprise this turned out to be! It had been on the periphery of my want list for a while, but I was sceptical that it was just going to be a Pikmin clone like the reviews suggested it was, and Pikmin is fantastic so that’s a hard wall to break through and every likelihood it’d be a bit pants. And, while there’s definitely a […]<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/completed/" target="_blank">#completed</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps/" target="_blank">#ps_</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/ps5/" target="_blank">#ps5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/tag/psn/" target="_blank">#psn</a><a href="https://wp.me/pMWBb-3tO" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://wp.me/pMWBb-3tO</a>

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