Seeing in the new year with Resogun

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Between The Swindle and Invisible, Inc, 2015 was a pretty brilliant year for thieves, so I figured that my Christmas game would be Sly 4, which I'd missed upon its release, but glimpsed in passing. A world of midnight skies and clattering over rooftops: the perfect treat for late December.
I forgot, of course, that you can't choose your Christmas game - your Christmas game chooses you. My greatest Christmas game ever was found, several years ago, down the back of the sofa as Christmas Eve approached: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. I remember returning to my mother's house that year, no significant others in tow, nowhere to be and nothing to do, and playing it solidly for two weeks: an adventure of pinks and purples and ceaseless surprises, interrupted only briefly, to see Roisin Murphy climb inside a Leslie speaker on Jools Holland.
Resogun was another unforeseen treat, rediscovered in very different circumstances, its sleek voxel spaceship selected by my daughter as it swam past on the PS4 dash, a bright fish in a strange aquarium.
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