Kirk Hamilton

Interesting.

Yeah, we can talk more about the sound and the situational awareness maybe when we get a little deeper into it.

Jason, how about you?

What are you thinking of this game, Big Picture?

That sounds right.

Yeah, I'm liking it as well.

And yeah, I do appreciate how there are just some persistent things in the level, I guess is how I would describe what you're describing, Jason.

You open a door and the door stays open.

There are some doors that once you open them, you can then access the boss.

So you don't have to play through the whole level if you die at the boss, though you can play through the whole level since playing through the level gets you upgrades and gets you new artifacts and all kinds of new things, more powerful weapons, etc.,

Yeah, I'm liking this game.

I suppose first of all I should say I've died six times.

I haven't beaten it though.

I'm only up to the second boss and I will certainly die more than seven times on this game.

I kind of wanted to get to eight just to let myself off the hook a little bit.

Stop thinking about it.

And also just because it would have been funny to have died eight times already.

But I'm sort of playing this game a little differently than I played Returnal and having more fun with it.

And also, death is kind of an important part of this game in particular because a lot of the story kind of develops as Arjun returns to base.

I just had a cutscene play out with a very important character, kind of a mysterious one.