Play Station Official Magazine - UK (2019-12)

021

The Big 10

STORIES EVERYONE’S TALKING ABOUT

IAN DEAN

EDITOR

JESS KINGHORN

STAFF WRITER

OSCAR TAYLOR-KENT

GAMES EDITOR

MIRIAM MCDONALD

OPERATIONS EDITOR

Which PlayStation game

deserves a novelisation?

WHEN HE’S NOT

MASSACRING

FREAKERS DEACON

ST JOHN LIKES

TO REFLECT...

With such a vast and

well-realised world,

and a hero who generally

shouts his angst over

the roar of a motorbike

engine, I’d love to read On

The Road... with Deacon

St John. The Freaker

hunter’s diaries would be

a challenging read, and

would make for a

fantastic prequel- or

sequel-set trip into the

mind of gaming’s second

angriest man™ as he

comes to terms with the

state of the world around

him. There’ll be lost love

rekindled, Boozer-fuelled

hijinks, and insight into

how Deacon has managed

to overcome his hatred

for the modern world by

mastering the theraputic

art of fuel tank painting. Q

STORY IS KING BUT

HOW THAT STORY IS

CONVEYED HAS GOT

TO BE QUEEN.

I still have a lot of love

for FromSoftware’s

Déraciné, as imperfect

as it is. After all, a story

gradually revealed

through item descriptions

is a joy to unpick in a

Souls game, working well

alongside the trademark

exploration and combat,

but it holds up less well

as the sole focus of a

PS VR game. With Life Is

Strange’s technically bad

ending being more fully

explored in comic book

form and even

Bloodborne receiving a

graphic novel adaptation,

perhaps Déraciné’s

strengths could be

elucidated through similar

treatment... though I’d

say that gothic fairytale

illustrations are a must

however you do it. Q

LET CONTROL’S NEW

WEIRD INSPIRATIONS

BECOME CYCLICAL.

Throughout the

development of Control

the team at Remedy has

consistently cited the new

weird genre as a key

inspiration – specifically

the likes of Jeff

VanderMeer’s Southern

Reach Trilogy (of which

Annihilation was made

into a film), and Mark Z

Danielewski’s twisty-

turny House Of Leaves.

Either author would

do a cracking job of

transferring Jesse

Faden’s journey onto

the page. I’d love to see

VanderMeer tackle it,

because the Southern

Reach Trilogy does

an excellent job of

presenting the bizarre

through the lens of

drab-seeming paperwork

and reports. It’s a match

made in Area X. Q

JUDGMENT HAS

PLENTY OF

POTENTIAL TO BE A

SUMMER HOLIDAY

BESTSELLER.

Crime novels sell like hot

cakes, and with the

excellent Japanese/

British crime drama

Haji/Giri having been on

the BBC recently, I reckon

I’d be far from alone in

welcoming a novelisation

of Takayuki Yagami’s

detective adventures.

Things like the drone

races would have to go,

but that would leave room

for meatier side-stories,

in which Yagami really

delves into the lives of

the people he’s following.

And, of course, in print

the authors would be

more able to dip into the

really gory or even saucy

bits they can’t get away

with putting into a game.

Honestly, this could be a

whole series of books. Q

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just one more question...

the team debate this month’s burning issue

ALL THE WRITE MOVES

The co-creator of CW’s TV show

iZombie, Chris Roberson, has

turned his attention on Rebellion’s

Zombie Army series. The novel,

Zombie Army: Fortress Of The

Dead, will release 6 February.