Ive started playingSplit Fiction, and its just as good as everyone has been saying.

Sure,the writing is a bit contrived, but this is a Hazelight game.

What did you expect?

The Borderlands movie next to Mio from Split Fiction.

I couldnt work out how to getFriends Passto work.

What Is Split Fictions Friends Pass?

Friends Pass is simultaneously Split Fictions most creative idea and its own worst enemy.

The party in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stand together while underwater.

One player thats me has bought the game.

Their friend thats my friend wants to join them.

However, its about a half-hour drive to each others houses, and weve got stuff going on.

atsu looking at a giant copy of ghost of yotei in ghost of yotei.

We want to play remotely, using the online services that many games implement.

It basically acts as couch co-op would in the days of yore.

Personally, this is fantastic.

Zoe and Mio on a motorbike in Split Fiction.

via Hazelight Studios

Except for the part where we dismembered a cuddly elephant.

We turned the game off and played a few calming games of FIFA after that traumatising experience.

My brothers moved a little further away now, so I called up my oldest friend to replace him.

mio and zoe in split fiction.

Im not sure if it was Destroy All Monsters or Save the Earth, but it was great fun.

Or maybe the game was just a bit rubbish.

Either way, we got through it.

Following the Monkey King’s dance steps in Split Fiction

Thats a fairly simple requirement, right?

Alright, now to play.

Again, we were premature.

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I tried to add him to my game.

No notifications were popping on his screen.

Thankfully, a quick Google revealed the problem: hes on PS5 and Im on Xbox Series X.

Split Fiction

Once hed turned on crossplay invitations in his configs, the notifications started popping up.

The invite to play would appear on his screen for a split second.

But even when he managed to nail the timing, we still couldnt connect.

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Sometimes wed get a loading wheel, sometimes wed get a full-on error code.

It just didnt want to work.

However, we persevered, Googled, and kept trying.

Eventually, we connected.

There was no trick or hack, we just kept trying the same thing over and over.

So much for Einsteins theory of madness, eh?

After that, the game was a breeze.

We played through about a quarter of the game in one evening, and had a great time.

It was exactly the nostalgic fun wed hoped for.

But Im not looking forward to doing it again.

It took us 40 minutes last time!

It’s a fun game, but there’s basically no plot to it.