Gilbert Cruz

Absolutely.

I was going to say, certainly with the first Hades, the voice work, the acting, and maybe people don't think about that as much when it comes to video games, but the acting that went into that performance.

It was very entertaining, sort of droll, but sexy at the same time.

Like, I thought it was great.

i just once again you know if we're talking about like how video games relate to real life maybe i don't deal with frustration well it's like that is this this is not what i want are you scared of death i think about it every day um i'm thinking about it right now

Well, let me complicate that, because the next game that we're going to talk about here also deals with death, and it has a very different tone, maybe more one that was to my liking.

This is Claire Obscure Expedition 33, and this is an RPG game

a role-playing game, the story of which is this.

Essentially, every year, the citizens of an island named Lumiere, and the world is like a late 19th century France or late 19th century Europe.

Belle Époque.

They have to deal with a being out there who is slowly exterminating them, year by year, age by age.

You see off in the distance every year on this one day a number written on a giant rock, and everyone who's older than that number dies.

sort of crumbles into dust, like, at the end of the adventure.

I agree.

And then every year, a new expedition of fighters is sent out there to try to defeat this thing, which in the game is called the Paintress.

And so this is Expedition 33.

It's been 60-something years.

Um...

This is a game that is inherently about death.

It is a game that I didn't cry at, but I got teary-eyed at many times.