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The fighting is over, but Canton hasn’t noticed. As the town smiles and carries on, Runtar struggles with what they chose not to say, how Gloom has changed, and what it means to leave a place that feels wrong behind.

Bought for my six-year-old, SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide ended up being more enjoyable and more complicated than I expected, with tricky button sequences leading to plenty of repeated sections.

I wasn’t sure I liked Subnautica, but I couldn’t stop playing it, frustrating at first, then addictive once the story and goals finally fell into place.

Beneath Canton’s town hall, the party finally confronts what’s been happening to the missing sailors. Faced with forced transformation, stolen identities, and a creature that drags them into the depths, Runtar discovers there are moments when even a gentle bard has to stand and burn.

Canton looks normal in the daylight, but it isn’t. People are taken to the water, told they’re becoming something bigger, and come back changed. Watching it happen made Runtar realise this isn’t about death, it’s about erasure, and that doing nothing is no longer an option.

We arrived at a seaside town called Canton. Everyone smiled too much, the curtains closed themselves, and the tavern served hot wax as a drink. Gloom drank it. I think something is very wrong here.