Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2021 i Edge

Perhaps it was different for you, but for some of us, having videogames as a hobby during our school years wasn’t a sure-fire method for becoming the most popular kid. When even the members of the Dungeons & Dragons lunchtime club look down their noses at you, it’s difficult not to ask yourself some questions. What was it about computer games, we wondered, that these people just didn’t get? Looking back now at the state of some of the things we played in the early ‘80s, it’s not difficult to appreciate why the entire planet wasn’t quite ready to be hooked just yet, but for a while there it felt like a mystery. The world of comics (not graphic novels – that rephrasing would come later) was similar: who couldn’t…

It’s the Dragon’s Den-style question Dean Anderson gets a lot: why would big studios incorporate a UGC platform such as Playerstate when they could build their own? “Some will build their own,” he counters. “But the reality is, once we get Playerstate off the ground and we have a significant community, we will have economies of scale on our side.” For many triple-A developers, he argues, UGC is a distraction they’d happily leave to a third party. He adds, “If we can come in with a solution that drives efficiency, it makes complete sense for them to use a platform like Playerstate rather than try to build them themselves.”…

“It’s the intention that matters. We do believe that for companies that have messed up, there’s always a path to redemption. [But] the earlier you get started, the easier it gets.” As she departs as head of trade body IGDA, Nika Nour strikes a hopeful note for the likes of Activision Blizzard “Oh my god, this 11-year-old Roblox dev literally sounds like a 40-year-old burned-out indie dev gone out of business…” Indie veteran Rami Ismail contemplates the downside of starting them young “You know Travis got paid, Ariana got paid, Marvel got paid. Then you turn around and completely shit on your own industry.” Nopopo’s Folmer Kelly on Epic’s plundering of Among Us for Fortnite’s Impostors mode “The charade of launch timing serves little purpose except this dance with equity…

I don’t want control of you Why do I enjoy (re)installing games more than actually playing them? I’ve been pondering this one for a while. Due to past Steam sales with aggressive discounts you can’t refuse, and free games drip-fed into my library through Epic and Amazon Games, I now ‘own’ over 800 games. Frankly, it’s an amount that a younger version of myself would have drooled over as he was replaying Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone on Game Boy Color for the 13th time. However, now my nights are spent trawling my treasure trove of titles, debating whether I want to put in the effort – and the bandwidth – to install any of them. Like a hoarding dragon, I’d much rather sit on my mountain of playable…

We’d love to say we planned it. But in truth, this month’s 50:50 split between household names and smaller independent projects is a happy accident. There is some method, of course: at Edge, we strive to cover a broad spread of games. Indeed, among those familiar properties alone, we have an openworld game, an FPS, a management sim and an action-adventure. Let’s begin with the big guns, then – and Halo Infinite (p36) has plenty of those. Though the campaign remains out of bounds, its multiplayer component is familiar in the best way. Harking back to Halos of old, it recaptures a certain je ne sais quoi we’ve not felt since Bungie left behind the series it birthed. Halo’s The Force Awakens? It could well be, you know. On the…

Volition is positioning Saints Row as “a chance to go back to our origins” – indeed, a word cloud of the roundtable chat after its private reveal to press would probably have “roots” dwarfing “grounded” and “fans”. Yet while the outlandish action suggests the series is still happy to indulge in gleeful silliness, it would be wrong to say it’s not grown up at all since the original game. It’s become significantly more progressive for a kick-off, with this latest entry showcasing not only a diverse cast but a greater awareness of the issues facing young people in capitalist America. Despite that promised return to first principles, the series’ outlook now feels quite different from the more cynical – some might say nihilistic – worldview of the GTA series.…

Newbold says flying and marine reptiles were big community demands, and as we learned from Jurassic World, bowing to pressure for more exciting breeds always ends well. We splurge our park’s budget on a lagoon and hatching a Mosasaurus, a mashup of whale and crocodile, and it pushes us from a two-star to a five-star attraction. The challenge then lies in extending the lagoon. “Marine reptiles still have territory and needs, and we have different species that might need, or not like, a certain number of other species in their territory,” Newbold says. “I wanted parity across all dinosaur types, because I want players to deal with the same problems among all of them.” No free rides at Jurassic World.…

Developer Coconut Island Studio Publisher Coconut Island Games Format PC Origin China Release 2022 While the fashionable way to evoke nostalgia in videogames is to replicate the look of titles from classic hardware – the vibrant hues of the i6bit SNES palette, the crisp monochrome of early Macintosh games, and the stark colours and blocky graphics of games harking back to the Atari 2600 – Chinese developer Coconut Island Studio is taking a more artistic approach for this visual novel rich in wistful longing for simpler days and the recent past. Idyllic scenes of 1990s China are presented as distinctive hand-painted art on canvas. Its imagery is beautifully rustic, depicting a world unspoiled by the complexities and messy politics of modern life. But A Perfect Day is more than just…

With so many eyes on Venba, Abhi is feeling the weight of expectation. “Now there’s a lot of responsibilities,” the designer says, explaining how, with a very finite amount of recipes and dishes to recreate in Venba, there’s inevitably going to be debate over the inclusion of certain foods. “I can guarantee you this game will come out and almost every Tamil person who plays it will contact me and say, ‘How can you not include this dish?’” Abhi says, pointing to this as the single biggest challenge when developing a game about Indian cuisine and heritage. He’s made his peace with it, though, and is confident the recipes he’s chosen are the best ones to represent his homeland and family cooking.…

Of the 12 heroes on Midnight Suns’ roster, we see nine in action. With Firaxis apparently given free rein to decide which characters it wanted, whittling it down to even that number “may have been the toughest part of the game,” Solomon tells us. Each of the final picks meets one of two criteria: either they’re a big-name character the team thought it would be fun to see in a more supernatural context (Wolverine, Captains Marvel and America) or more niche heroes for whom this is home turf (Magik, Ghost Rider, Blade). As for the three yet to be revealed, we can only speculate – and note the appearance of Bruce Banner in our demo, taking a backstage role as the team’s guy in the chair, and the reference to…

Oma Keeling suggests that the reductive and rigid way videogames are sometimes described by connoisseurs has roots in ideas about film criticism before home-format viewing became widespread. Film critics had to be more authoritative in their verdicts, “because if you didn’t get to see it in the cinema, it was gone.” It’s an intriguing point, as is Keeling’s comment that the links between videogames and poetry pre-date the links between videogames and film, which is typically regarded as its closest relative. One of the oldest interactive digital works, they point out, was Christopher Strachey’s satirical love poem algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer, written in 1952.…

History is at the centre of everything Charles Games does. Its work has received acclaim for applying a historian’s eye to the Second World War, an era picked over by many games. But Charles Games prefers to avoid big action sequences in favour of recounting the firsthand accounts of ordinary people who experienced the horrors of Nazi occupation. Following the release of its debut, Attentat 1942, the studio also played a part in a momentous change in German law, one that saw Attentat become one of the very first games tackling such topics that was allowed to be released in the region without major changes. Stepping back to the studio’s origins, though, the focus on history comes as no surprise. Initially formed as an educational venture between Charles University in…

Developer Double Fine Publisher Xbox Game Studios Format PC, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series (tested) Release Out now We wonder if Tim Schafer has finally retired that Google Doc. Back in E349’s cover feature he told us he’d been using it to collate notes ever since Psychonauts’ release: ideas that came to him over the intervening years, whether at random junctures or after meeting fascinating people who inspired him to imagine what their inner worlds might look like. Many ended up on note cards that were combined with others to form more solid concepts for the sequel’s brainspaces. By the time the credits have rolled, we’re convinced there can’t have been many left over. Yes, Psychonauts 2’s cup runneth over with a giddy, go-for-broke energy. There is a palpable sense…

By now, you’re probably familiar with at least the broad strokes of the lawsuit brought against Activision Blizzard by the California Department Of Fair Employment And Housing. Since it was filed in July, its allegations have inspired a lot of discussion around “frat boy” workplace culture”, with “cube crawls” seeing male employees drinking “copious amounts of alcohol” and wandering between office cubicles, leading to “inappropriate behaviour toward female employees.” The full complaint makes for grim reading. The result of a two-year investigation by the DFEH, it describes “a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women”, spanning everything from unequal pay and opportunities for promotion to rape jokes and unsolicited comments about the bodies of female employees. Former World Of Warcraft creative director Alex Afrasiabi is named specifically, alleged to…

The next time you’re walking down a street with friends, try playing a round of “corporate exorcism” game Skcubrats. You score points by shouting out corporate signs backwards. First player to ten wins. Alternatively, keep going until capitalism crumbles. Skcubrats is one of the lighter entries in Casual Games For Protesters, an archive of physical games to play at rallies and marches. The goal is to make “participating in social change [feel] exhilarating, social, intellectually and physically stimulating, liberatory and fun” – though, as the creators acknowledge, “context is crucial”. It’s one thing to ‘protest playfully’ in the UK, quite another to do so in a country where police routinely bear arms. Launched in 2017, CGP is the work of writer-performer Dr Harry Josephine Giles and Professor Paolo Pedercini, founder…

Arcades Four Quarters and NQ64 Locations London and Edinburgh Over the years we’ve probably spent way too much time fretting about the fate of old coin-ops, imagining them rotting away in leaky old garages, but to be fair we couldn’t reasonably have foreseen the scale of enthusiasm that exists for keeping them alive – and, increasingly, available for everyone to play, rather than squirrelled away in private collections. August saw the opening of two more UK venues where arcade machines can continue their useful lives well into old age. London’s contribution is the flagship site for the Four Quarters barcade chain – at 3,000 square feet, considerably larger than its two other sites in the UK capital. Located at Elephant Park, the venue (above) hosts games including Asteroids, House Of…

Across film, theatre or television, the legal drama portrays an alternative universe in which a puzzling binary question can be settled beyond doubt, to the intellectual and emotional satisfaction of the audience. The world outside our windows might be a never-ending blizzard of chaotic and irrational rubbish where certainty is impossible, but in the microcosm that is the courtroom we can at least witness an ideal version of truth-finding and justice. So it has been since the ancient Greek tragedian Aeschylus composed The Eumenides, the third play in his Oresteia trilogy, in which Orestes is arraigned for the murder of his mother and his guilt debated in the first 12-person jury trial, presided over by the goddess Athena herself. That symbolises the moment in the evolution of human civilization when…

Metroid Dread switch We keep seeing it described as “the first 2D Metroid in two decades”, which is a stinging indictment of either online game coverage or MercurySteam’s efforts on Samus Returns. That game’s flaws haven’t lessened our anticipation: the arguments over who gets to review it have begun. Jett: The Far Shore PC, PS4, PS5 Yes, it hasn’t been long since our first contact with this contemplative space adventure, but we’re already aching to return to Superbrothers’ alien planet with its beautiful, deadly sunsets – and that majestic Scntfc score. Hey, it’s been a decade, what’s a few more months? Elden Ring PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series A certain member of Team Edge says they think about this Miyazaki/Martin collaboration “more often than is healthy”. It can’t…

Developer 343 Industries Publisher XBox Game Studios Format PC, Xbox One, XBox Series Origin US Release Q4 They say you can’t go home again, that if you return somewhere after a long time away, it’s never how you remember it. As we rack up the first of many Killing Sprees in Halo Infinite’s first technical preview, however, we’re not so sure that’s true. The territory might be new – Live Fire, a tangle of ramps, towers and gangways wrapped in drab training-facility theming – but everything else feels like home. The crunch of a melee hit connecting with the armour plate of an opponent. The lazy, tumbling trajectory of a frag grenade. The precise number of Needler shards you need to embed beneath someone’s skin before they’ll explode in a…

Unsurprisingly, the Guardians don’t stray too far from their MCU counterparts in terms of characterisation – it’s no surprise to learn that Marvel was very hands-on in this regard – though DeMarle says Eidos Montreal has nodded towards the comics more in certain places. “Drax is very intelligent, but in the movies he’s very literal. We wanted to maintain that, but also make it [clear] that he’s a smart guy: he’s more of a tactician in the group.” One character diverges more from the films, however. “The character I liked best that we worked on was Mantis,” DeMarle says. “We put more of the character we saw in the comic books into her. She was a lot of fun to write because she’s so unpredictable.”…

Developer Geography Of Robots Publisher Raw Fury Format PC Origin US Release Q1 2022 Crouton died during the development of Norco. Afterwards, developer Yuts (he prefers to go by his nom de plume) found himself adding his beloved cat to more and more scenes in his game, no matter how logical (or otherwise) the appearance. Crouton even has his own minigame, where if the player fails to memorise an increasingly challenging memory game on the screen, they’ll receive a clawing. If they succeed, they’ll rack up valuable petting points. “His memory lives on in the game,” Yuts says. “It’s a way of maintaining some kind of connection or relationship.” Memories shore up the foundations of this science-fiction Southern Gothic point-and-click adventure, which is based on the eerie and powerful specifics…

On top of managing Liang Chen’s anxiety, you will find collectibles that may shape later chapters, and affect his interactions with other characters. Items such as sweets and books can also be packed away for use the next day. A Perfect Day has Easter eggs that will be instantly recognisable to Chinese players who grew up in the 1990s, such as references to a TV series called My Fair Princess. A palace drama broadcast in East and Southeast Asia, this became a cultural phenomenon, catapulting its cast into superstardom overnight (western audiences may be most familiar with actress Fan Bingbing). A poster of the show can be seen in Liang Chen’s bedroom.…

Developer/publisher Ghost Pattern Format PC Origin Australia Release Early 2022 One of the more heartening recent developments in the game industry has been the opportunity to hear from a wider range of voices. Through art funds, boutique publishers and independent stores such as itch.io, creators from different backgrounds are getting the help they need to bring more personal projects to market, and it’s becoming easier to broaden our cultural diet. Still, even without knowing a great deal about Australia in the 1970 s, we’re sure that airships converted into hospitals were never a thing. “Actually...” Ghost Pattern Games’ Marigold Bartlett begins, before her poker face breaks into a grin. “In terms of the time period, I think a really big thing was just that we were excited to find out…

In keeping with the decision to find their own corner of the Marvel universe, the team were keen to find a distinct visual take on all of Midnight Suns’ characters. The more recognisable the character, we’re told, the harder this became. “Everybody knows what Iron Man looks like,” Solomon says. “So it has to look like Iron Man. But it better not look like any other version of Iron Man, because then it gets confusing.” Part of the answer was drawing from the era that inspired Midnight Suns, in and out of comics. Wolverine is dressed in the tan variant of his suit that was an ‘80s staple, while Iron Man’s armour is based on the vents and angles of the 1987 Ferrari F40.…

God, what the fuck am I doing? / Rock, Star, North / It is Saturday. I’m thirty. I’m inside when it’s sunny playing / Rock, Star, North / playing Grand Theft Auto V on the PlayStation 3 in / Rock, Star, North / in my flat in Garnethill and my friend just called to say / Rock, Star, North / to say he’s in the park and I should come they’ve got the slackline they’ve got / Rock, Star, North / they’ve got beers and Robbie’s coming with the barbecue and languistine and / Rock, Star, North / and it hasn’t been this hot since last July you realise Calum it’s been / Rock, Star, North / serious the park is hoaching get off your arse and join us man…

Just a thought is all I’ve got A notion has been buzzing around our minds for a while now. It seemed foolish at first, enough for us to dismiss it. But after this issue’s Play selection, that buzz has grown louder, and we can ignore it no longer. So here goes: is the time-loop game simply a new variant on the Metroid-like? Bear with us while we explain. Or, rather, ask another question: what is the main defining trait of this genre? In the likes of Recompile (p118) and Axiom Verge 2 (p120), you focus on gaining powers to expand your ability to navigate a world, and in turn to deal with the various challenges found within it. In each case the environment is subtly gated: you will encounter obstacles…

Bastion’s original conceit was, as audio director Darren Korb once put it, “what if Cormac McCarthy made a fantasy videogame?” The mournful, whiskeyhoney tones of Bastion’s narrator Rucks certainly seem like they could have been plucked straight from the author’s bleak yet lyrical descriptions of the American landscape. When McCarthy writes, in his 2006 novel The Road – in which the country has been beset by a terrible cataclysm, leaving few survivors – of “the ashes of the late world”, or the “barren, silent, godless” wasteland, he could just as easily be describing the post-Calamity wreckage surrounding the Bastion, what Rucks calls “fragments of the old world”. Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s 1985’s frontier novel, even featured a protagonist known simply as “the kid”.…

BOOK Pac-Man: Birth Of An Icon bit.ly/pacmanlcon Arjan Terpstra and Tim Lapetino deliver a comprehensive and colourful history of Namco’s mascot in Cook & Becker’s latest lavish coffee-table tome. Bolstered by interviews with key figures, Birth Of An Icon offers rich insights into the arcade classic’s conception, development, design, marketing and legacy, alongside a wealth of fascinating images. These include vintage photos, flyers, posters and more: a particular highlight is a “distribution of errors” document (effectively an old-fashioned heat map) with a graph-paper maze marked with crosses showing where players were most likely to die. It’s crowned by the first-ever translation of Toru Iwatani’s book Pac-Man’s Game Study Manual, offering reflections on his career at Namco and the design of his seminal creation. VIDEO DreamsCom: The Reality bit.ly/dreamsthereality DreamsCom 2021…

The role of the intimacy coordinator arose out of a need to keep people safe and address the abuses of power that have run wild in the entertainment industry. But also, their job is to help to create moments of intimacy that are hot/tender/real, as a story demands. Our intimacy coordinator for Immortality is called Jean, and she is marvellous. Like a stunt supervisor, Jean is there to keep everyone safe, but she also wants to create some stunts (sex) that will take the audience’s breath away. Along with her bag of modesty garments, Jean brings a genuine passion for humanity and our capacity for intimacy. Talking with her – especially in the climate of further industry exposés of abuse and toxicity – made me think. Under such clouds, it…

Developer Volition Publisher Deep Silver Format PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series Origin US Release February 25 Let’s face it: a reboot was the only realistic option for Volition’s open-world series. At the end of the fourth game, your protagonist had expanded their criminal empire into space, effectively becoming ruler of the universe. And if that wasn’t quite far enough, expansion Gat Out Of Hell culminated in you defeating Satan, before giving you the option to either ascend to Heaven or become king of the underworld. “To me, the comparison is the James Bond film Moonraker,” principal writer Jeremy Bernstein explains. “It’s so extreme – it’s so far outside anything that’s even plausible – that it’s like, ‘Where can we possibly go from there?’ And you can’t. You’ve got…

One aspect of Halo Infinite we’re not fully convinced by yet is its personal AI. These AI characters of the Cortana variety provide the thematic explanation for a button that pings nearby weapons, like a detective vision mode, but really their main purpose is to act as a personal commentator for your matches. You can now select an AI personality alongside your custom paintjob, loading up the cowardly Fret or the murderously peppy Circ, who will then shout out your latest power weapon pickup or any gnarly kills. Alongside Jeff Steitzer’s announcer and barks from your fellow Spartans, it makes for a very chatty game. A way of ensuring voice-comms-off players never feel lonely? Maybe. But do the AI voices have to be quite so annoying?…

Developer/publisher Frontier Developments Format PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series Origin UK Release November 9 As Jeff Goldblum’s Dr Ian Malcolm noted in The Lost World, “Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas.” Frontier is more optimistic. Set after the film Fallen Kingdom, which saw dinosaurs escaping into the US wilderness, the returning park-management sim shifts its focus, at least in its campaign. You come expecting to gouge punters with overpriced chips, but discover a more noble cause: in this demo, a poaching ring to demolish and its Carnotaurus captives to cheer up. Such is the work of the Department Of Fish And Wildlife, an organisation title that really buries the lede. “You’re not building theme parks any more,…

“I don’t want to just introduce puzzles for puzzles’ sake,” Yuts says of the game’s focus on story over systems. “All the puzzles that we have are kind of mechanics or that are an outgrowth of the narrative.” It’s a tale rooted in personal experience: protagonist Kay recalls that her childhood home had been through four hurricanes, which reflects Yuts’ own experience with natural disaster. “I’ve got a drawer at my parents’ house where I’ve been putting all my old videogames, CDs, pictures, and notes in Ziploc bags since I was a kid because our house has flooded so many times,” he says. Other key influences include Super Nintendo and PlayStation, Phillip K Dick, urban theorists such as Mike Davis, and country musicians Townes Van Zandt and Merle Haggard.…

Developer/publisher Visai Games Format PC Origin Canada, India Release Winter Most cooking games, such as Overcooked! and Battle Chef Brigade, focus on the mechanics of food preparation. But Visai Games’ debut, which follows the lives of an immigrant Indian family living in Canada, is mixing up the recipe, tying the process of cooking directly to its story and the day-to-day lives of the family at its heart. Venba tells their tale in episodic chunks, each featuring a dish to cook, with interstitial sequences showing the growth of the individual family members over time. The dishes aren’t simply thrown into the game for the sake of it: each has a specific significance to the family, or advances the story in some way. “For me, cooking felt like a very natural fit,”…

The aim is to give players a complete story they can happily walk away from at the end of its “roughly movie-length” runtime. “There’s an overarching story to do with Casey,” Bartlett says, hinting towards it focusing on her relationship with her mother. But the option is there to return and find out more about the characters you didn’t get to know so well. “On the last day, it’s not like you’re [focused on] unlocking the good ending or whatever,” Bakker says. “But your interactions with the characters will be very different if you’ve spent quite a bit of time with them compared to if you haven’t – you may only bump into someone on the third day, and you’re like, ‘oh! Who are you?’ Just like real life.”…

While Midnight Suns’ battles default to a close-up camera, it is possible to zoom out into ‘tactics mode’, which provides a topdown overview of the battlefield with all pertinent information. “That’s useful in some cases,” Solomon says – but he’s adamant that the entire game is playable without ever using it. “Because if you can’t, we’re probably violating some other thing, philosophically, that we wanted to do.” He’s referring to the game’s essential design pillars: conveying how powerful the characters are, something that’s harder to do from a distance, and keeping battles fast and flowing. “We don’t want the player to sit there constantly rethinking this or that decision.” This was more important than making something that looks closer to the shiny blockbuster Marvel is known for, we’re told –…

While Marvel has established its dominance in cinema and, more recently, television, it’s yet to replicate the feat for videogames. When we share this observation, Solomon initially pushes back: “The indie darling Spider-Man, I guess you’re referring to?” But it’s hard to deny that Midnight Suns exists in the shadow of Square Enix’s Marvel’s Avengers. Accepting that it’s yet to have the interactive equivalent of Endgame, Solomon says: “I think it’s just a matter of time. Because these stories and these characters are archetypes, they’re like the modern mythology.” Marvel’s game division is taking the same approach as its film studio, he says, partnering with creatives whose work they like and letting them do their own thing. Surely it will eventually produce the equivalent of Black Panther or Thor: Ragnarok?…

Calum Rodger’s publications include Fiat Ontology, a blend of poetry booklet and Proteus Let’s Play. It borrows the game’s seasonal changes, mapping these to the seven letters of the title, which appear at the beginning of or within lines of poetry – the acrostic method. Both the seasons and letters correspond to ‘levels of being’, as the book travels from grab-bags of details from screenshots (“distance, grass, sound, sand”) to collages of comments from the game’s Steam forum. Rodger drew upon a wide mixture of poetic and philosophical traditions, from Scottish minimalism and object-oriented ontology, but as he notes, “so much of it is just the good fortune of words happening to behave in the way that you want them to.”…

Radim Jurda Co-creator, designer, artist Creaks’ art direction really resonated with players. Did you have any particular inspirations for the visual style? There aren’t that many huge, specific inspirations. I always try to avoid being influenced too much by the work of others. I mostly try to take ideas from my free sketchbook drawings. Of course, many influences from things I like naturally appear in my work. There are Czech animations by Jirí Barta and Jan Švankmajer that I encountered during my studies, illustrations by Edward Gorey, and films by Tim Burton. We also inspire each other at our studio, and the influence of Adolf Lachman’s Machinarium drawings was a particularly strong inspiration. How did you feel about the way Creaks was received by players and the press? I’m happy…

Fracked PSVR The blend of shooting, skiing and climbing, all in service of a B-movie narrative, made it look as though Fracked could be VR’s answer to Uncharted. Imagine the disappointment, then, as we put on the headset and are struck with motion sickness so severe we can’t even make it through the game’s three-hour duration. Still, the response from those with stronger stomachs has been positive, so maybe don’t let us put you off taking to the slopes. Necrobarista Switch A welcome Final Pour for one of our favourite visual novels of recent times. This enhanced Switch edition gives us the perfect excuse for a return visit to the Terminal and spend more time with Maddy, Ashley, Kishan and the gang. And while it’s the supporting cast who are…