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To add to this, the school where the game primarily takes place, Shujin[ 秀尽 ] Academy, is a pun on the Japanese word for 'prisoner'[ 囚人 ], pronounced the same way. This has been confirmed as deliberate.

Alright then. Though, did you ever play Nine Sols? I mentioned in my 'review' of it that it's easily got the best story of any Soulslike I've played.

I don't think I've bought a takeaway or frozen pizza since I learned how to make my own at home.

Different strokes and all that, but the Souls games have always been open to interpretation about which endings are "good" or "bad". It depends on your mindset and your read on the lore, with a few exceptions. If you're relying on Reddit to tell you whether you got a "good" or "bad" ending...

Was gonna mention that, but I decided I couldn't really fit it in cleanly.

If there's a takeaway from the David Jaffe Situation(tm) it's probably that games are made by teams of people. You can bill yourself as an auteur all you want, but unless you're actually making an entire game by yourself like ConcernedApe, there are other people who have creative input, and that...

I need to get around to Rebirth soon. Dust off my PS5. Left off at the Chocobo farm so I barely need to relearn anything at least.

Fair 'nuff.

The point of Cait Sith invalidating his own self-sacrifice was to make you think they were going to cop out again with Aerith, so that it would hit harder when they didn't.

Saw Blue Prince was on sale on Steam, so I bought it. My first run ended when my last two rooms had three locked doors between them and I had no keys. That just felt like a middle finger from the game, and while I've dealt with a lot of roguelike RNG BS in the past, this just feels wrong to me...

As funny as it is to laugh at Zeke, here's a video game hot take as opposed to an Escapist user hot take: I genuinely don't mind getting help with puzzles from NPCs, particularly in games with character-driven stories where they realistically would try to help, as long as I have to press a...

If it doesn't have a Tony Hawk grind button to ensure that I do or don't land on rails when I do or don't want to, I'm not buying it. That's why I stopped playing the original.

I thought it was a remaster of one of the original Onimusha games; I played Warlords but didn't really go for it, and the first level of Dawn of Dreams once*. But if it's a brand new one, that might actually be pretty cool. Pity about Denuvo on the PC version, but hell, that's what my PS5 is...

I would never wish death upon a game, but I kinda feel like it might be too little, too late for Marathon. Even if it does end up with a steady fanbase, the damage of Destiny 2's cancellation has already been done, and it was probably far worse for Marathon than any update could be.

I'm not a proponent of "it was better when it was worse", but something about the specific MIDI guitar sound on this track just speaks to me.