Kirk Hamilton

And, like, I don't like playing with a shotgun, for example, because it's really short-range.

And I vastly prefer a long-range weapon where I can kind of keep something between me and every enemy.

Like the first sub-boss that you'll fight is just this big, huge bruiser dude who jumps at you and has a couple of kind of nuke attacks that'll do a lot of damage.

He's so easy if you just run in a circle and keep some element of the environment between you and him.

And that's something I guess I just do instinctively from Returnal.

I don't think it's some mind-blowing strategy.

I'm sure a lot of people do this.

The levels are designed to make you do that.

But that's really crucial, I think, is to just move in circles around the edge of the room and try to keep your wits about you in terms of location.

I also find, actually, I play this some on the TV and then mostly on a computer monitor.

I find it way better on a computer monitor, in part because you do have a mini-map

This isn't a game where you need a map to navigate exactly, but in combat it's super helpful to look down and it's kind of like Halo or whatever, you see red dots.

And in some of those fights, especially later, when you're fighting a big beefer and they're pushing you around the room, suddenly adds will just...

spawn in and if you're not paying attention you can really lose a lot of health just because there's like a dude standing right behind you who starts shooting you that you didn't even realize was there so looking at the map i've found that's super helpful and on the tv it's like the screen is a little too big like there's too much to take in and it's so visually overwhelming and so easy to lose your head and the minute you start to panic or get too excited that's when you start taking damage and and pretty quickly die

You just lose a chunk of health if you fall off the cliff.

You're just psyched out and you can't get back on it.

Pretty silly, but pretty fun show.

Yeah, I kind of generally agree.

The setting, like the setup is pretty familiar.

Like I mentioned, it really does remind me of Event Horizon, that movie, just the idea that something went wrong and now we've arrived to find out what.