Ben Lindbergh

Yeah, I think that this will have some legs.

I don't think it'll be like 2XKO, you know, kind of another live service struggle story, or the other platform fighter, the Smash clone that Riot was interested in making with League of Legends characters.

I think, yes, there is a place in the market for this game, and

it's good.

So know that it's not just a quick cash-in on the license and that people who actually know what they're doing with fighting games made this game.

Unfortunately, I'm not someone who knows what I'm doing with fighting games, but I did mostly enjoy my time with it.

And lastly, let us wrap up

with two games.

I think we can kind of lump them together because they are both flawed but fascinating narrative games about humanity's struggles on a polluted planet.

So thematically similar here, Tides of Tomorrow and Ophelion.

And Matt, I know you fully played through both of these.

I played some Tides of Tomorrow and finished Ophelion also.

Tides of Tomorrow is developed by DigixArt.

It's published by THQ Nordic for PS5, Windows, and Xbox.

And then Ophelion is developed and published by the famed French studio Dontnod for PS5, Windows, and Xbox.

So...

You played more of Tides of Tomorrow than I did, so maybe you can tell me about that one first.

But the gimmick here, the hook, which I played enough of to experience, is that there is sort of, it's a single-player game, but there's asynchronous multiplayer.

Kind of inspired by FromSoft Games' Elden Ring, where you can kind of see evidence of other people's playthroughs, but more substantial than that.

in that you can actually kind of follow another player through this game, see what they did, do what they did, or decide to do something different.