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  • Something that’s very different, unique, with its own touch to everything.

    1. There’s very little explanation about the story despite a lot of really high quality cut scenes
    2. The combat is turn based but also very real time due to parries, dodges, jumps and what not
    3. The turn based combat is very addictive and yet very easy to understand.
    4. The art, you probably have never seen stuff like you see in the game
    5. The dialogues are really well thought
    6. Music, fresh.

    Basically, they are doing a lot of stuff that isn’t what you commonly see in games yet it all works really well together.


  • […] The formula to make […] Game of the year is stupidly simple, but somehow it keeps on getting lost.

    The studio made their game because they wanted to make a game that they wanted to play themselves.

    They didn’t make it to increase market shares. They didn’t make it to serve a brand. They didn’t have to meet arbitrary sales targets or fear being laid off if the didn’t meet those targets.

    Furthermore, the people in charge forbade them from cramming the game with anything whose only purpose was to increase revenue, and don’t serve the game design.

    • Sven, Game Awards 2024











  • There’s some nuance.

    • One of the bigger issues about PC gaming these days is the shader compilation stutter. Valve is able to precompile and upload these for SteamDeck, so a fixed hardware “console” from them will solve this problem too.
    • SteamDeck is pretty weak but games are still sort of optimised for it. Same would be true for such a console, making devs focus on a target platform directly.
    • Assembling PC yourself can have its own issues. You may not get all the ROPs, or a new Windows update may break your games, or you may occasionally update drivers to make a game more playable without black screens, or wouldn’t turn on with a controller when set up as a “console”. I’m not saying it isn’t doable, but there is an audience for consoles who would love whatever SteamDeck has done for handheld but in console form, and may not want to bother with setting everything up. Valve can disrupt that