Really great! The knowledge that there's more content on the way makes me wish I'd held off for a little while to play something a bit longer, but the gestures towards a larger world on show here are pretty special. The slow arc from feeling lost on The Eye to feeling extremely comfortable navigating it is one of the best portrayals of arriving in a new place that I've ever seen in a video game.

My only real criticism of the game is that none of the stories on show here really interacted with each other in a meaningful way outside of one notable example - there were tiny crossovers here and there, but I felt like completing certain Drives should have locked you out of others or impacted the outcomes and content of other questlines. This of course widen's the game's scope by a significant amount, and overall I think this is a pretty special thing worth your time at its current scale.

Put more dice in video games

Much like the first game, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 attempts to be every JRPG ever made all at once, and suffers for its lack of focus and mechanical chaff - but for all the game’s stumbles and overreach, I can’t help but get giddily into all its overcooked systems and anime melodrama. The game is stupidly ambitious and committed to being exactly what it is with no compromises. It’s totally batshit, a messy and unwieldy thing that resists any attempt to engage with it like a normal game, and I’m super glad it was made!

The next one needs to be like 30% less horny so I can play it on my TV

In every tiny moment or flourish, Unsighted shows itself as a true labour of love, generous and complex with something to say that could only have possibly been said by the people responsible for it

My main criticism of the game is that it’s too much - it’s best ideas are often obscured by a lot of mechanical chaff that leads to a pretty uneven experience that feels like the video game made inside someone’s imagination as a teen for better and for worse

Ambitious, messy, but above all, spirited and earnest in a way few games are

I hope you're ready to talk about this game for the next ten years

i wish i could eternal sunshine myself to experience the first fifty hours again because they were absolutely sublime, but elden ring is at once the most accessible modern fromsoft rpg and a caricature of all the criticisms of the developer by people who have never played one of their games - the endgame content felt less forgiving than even dark souls 3 at its meanest, and depending on the exact variety of brainworms that you've got, this is a great thing or a terrible thing

maybe one of the most magical games i've ever experienced, but by the end I was on my hands and knees begging for it to be over so I could think about anything else

in short, bloodborne's still the king let's go baby