Kirk Hamilton

They would not get along.

I kind of could.

Wow.

The hijinks they would get up to.

So I think that if it were just Arjun for a while with Primary and we spent some more time with him, that could maybe have been more effective.

Then again, I also understand why Housemarque would want to do something different.

Selene in Returnal was all alone, and that was very effective, but it wasn't just that she was alone.

So early in Returnal, Selene is making her way through this alien planet, and then suddenly there's a house, like an Earth house, just sitting there.

you know, on the face of this planet.

And then you go inside and it becomes like this first person game where you're walking through this house and it's this memory.

It seems clear it's a memory, but it's not clear of what.

And like it's got this like horrific kind of scary energy.

And then you gradually re-experience that house and the house becomes like how Celine's backstory and the narrative is delivered.

That's really cool.

You know what I mean?

That was the kind of thing that jumps out at you and that I still remember all these years later is the feeling of seeing a house and being like, what the hell?

And going inside it.

And I think that by comparison, there is, or I haven't come across anything yet in Saros that feels as immediately iconic and interesting and different.

It's more, it's all very familiar.

And I would imagine with more cut scenes, more time, really seeing the more expressive versions of these characters, and then learning the twists and turns, even if some of them are somewhat predictable.