Terahawks Corner

Last month was a little quiet from me in the upload stakes - picked up a rather nasty cold bug mid May that continued to linger well into June, with some sick days taken as a result. This in turn has shot my sleeping patterns to all hell. Combine that with a particularly busy stretch at the day job and I've not had much time, and not much energy. The busy season is easing off though at work - the cold bug has departed (though I think I may have just replaced it with a summer flu instead ...) and my internet connection remains a known qaundary (there will be no twitch recordings any time soon. Back to the games. Largely this month when I have reached a console, it's needed to be a child-friendly title. As generally has been the case this last year, Lego steps quite handily into the breach. And currently Lego Indiana Jones 2 has been the choice. As Telltale always seem to do, it's moved to a different set-up from previous games - a pseudo open world mini version of the...

Traveller's Tales Lego  games have become a staple within our household. The quality of the games is somewhat variable - so some I will go back to and play; particularly as the younger members of the family get older and some some won't be quite so high up the replay list but there is one feature missing from every Lego  game I've played since the original Lego Star Wars  - a customised party I've found in every game that there are characters that I prefer to use - often not the primary characters. For instance, in Lego Pirates of the Caribbean , my female character choice would be Park (one of the supporting pirates from the Singapore segment) or my preferred webslinger in Lego Marvel is Venom. Yes I can pick a preferred character, but every game will auto-select the other characters in the party. Yes I can select other characters on the fly (in Free Play at least) but it won't remember previous selections. I'd firmly expect this to be something not ne...