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Star Wars Fans Are Bummed About How Boring Mandalorian And Grogu Looks

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Our first trailer for the next Star Wars movie has arrived and it looks incredibly forgettable. Fans are picking apart a 90-second clip of The Mandalorian and Grogu and mourning the franchise’s loss of visual identity. Is Disney’s take on the sci-fi galaxy far, far away cooked, or is this just how a movie about a dude in a helmet and a green puppet is going to look in the year 2025?

Is the Mandalorian and Grogu trailer bad-looking? Yes. Is that sort of what I expected from the post-Disney+ entertainment industrial complex in the age of streaming? Also yes. Does any of this matter? Not to me. I did not stick around through three increasingly mediocre seasons of The Mandalorian for the second coming of Akira Kurosawa. I am coming to the movie to see some weird-looking aliens, goofy robots, and flashy lasers blow some stuff up. Even by those standards the teaser was a C minus, but the latest example of Star Wars mediocrity has some fans fully crashing out.

I don’t want to sound negative but this trailer makes the movie feel more like a filler episode of the TV show. Even visually it doesn’t look like an upgrade. https://t.co/UqCJyzwrcw

— Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) September 22, 2025

They had the opportunity make a beautiful space western set in the Star Wars universe and they cooked up abysmal dogshit instead. Movie made for the sole purpose of selling more Grogu toys. https://t.co/YwRwdxHu7M

— Barto (@bartonovopolis) September 22, 2025

Do you remember when The Mandalorian used to look like this? Where did we go wrong… https://t.co/nw6ieNXuse

— The Sietch of Sci-Fi | (@TSoS_) September 22, 2025

Couldn’t even bother to make this look like it belongs on the big screen. Disney Plus at the movies. https://t.co/gD2KPxtCOq

— Jeff Zhang 张佶润 (@strangeharbors) September 22, 2025

(This isn’t a comment on the quality)

There was a time when a new Star Wars trailer was an EVENT in itself. You would hear the rumours swirling & the fake descriptions going around. And when it dropped and we got our first NEW glimpse…it was magical.

That feeling is long gone https://t.co/GOmTwk3L4Q

— ΩStuntman MikeΩ (@Stuntman_Mik3) September 22, 2025

Mando so bad it’s fast tracking sequel redemption by like 10 years https://t.co/dHynhKAu14

— ol snokey (@snoketube) September 22, 2025

this could be fun but it really shows how much Disney have cheapened their brand that the first Star Wars movie in 7 years just looks like a more expensive episode of a TV show in every possible way https://t.co/LELjKg5Bor

— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) September 22, 2025

look what they took from us https://t.co/Xp7Cgnfj4L pic.twitter.com/XRIgr7G7ib

— Shadow Knight (@shadowknightdk) September 22, 2025

In case you think this is just an algorithmically spawned dunkfest, the vibes are similar on YouTube. “This just looks like one episode of the show,” reads one comment. “I feel like people were more excited for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith re release than for this one,” reads another. My favorite, though, is this summary: “50% of the comments: Jimmy Kimmel and the Empire, 49.9% of the comments: This Looks Like Season 4, 0.01%: Somehow Razor Crest returned!” Folks on Reddit are taking things more in stride. “Kinda looks like it’s just supposed to be fun, which I totally dig,” reads the top reaction. “Like if it’s just a movie length episode I’m down with that.”

That is about what I expected as well. I think it’s partly a testament to how much the Disney Star Wars shows, even when they’re bad, have looked like big-budget productions that The Mandalorian and Grogu movie just looks like a feature-length episode. I also think people are being a bit dramatic in rushing to judge a teaser for a film about back-bench characters who didn’t exist until just a few years ago against the most iconic stills across decades of original movies. It also feels like people have forgotten that Jon Favreau is directing.

What are the most memorable shots that come to mind from Elf, Zathura: A Space Adventure, and Cowboys & Aliens? I’ll wait. He’s not that type of director. The most visually arresting 60 seconds of footage he ever recorded was himself cooking a grilled cheese in Chef. He brings other virtues to his filmmaking, most of which are probably hard to get across in a 90-second teaser where almost no one talks. That is not a defense of The Mandalorian and Grogu, but it’s a point worth keeping in mind when judging the pre-release marketing for a movie about a stoic cowboy and his green muppet baby that’s literally called The Mandalorian and Grogu. 





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GTA 5’s Trevor actor recommends book to fans over GTA 6

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Steven Ogg, the actor behind Trevor from GTA 5, says he feels “nothing” about Grand Theft Auto 6 despite fans asking him about it all the time.

Grand Theft Auto’s single-player characters have created some iconic moments in gaming. Everyone reminisces on CJ from San Andreas, Niko Bellic in GTA IV, and Vice City’s Tommy Vercetti.

However, Grand Theft Auto 5’s trio of Michael, Franklin, and Trevor have gone to a new level. The actors behind the three main characters have become stars and regularly meet GTA fans at conventions and meet and greets. Ned Luke, the actor behind Michael, even regularly streams the game. 

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Even though he has appeared in The Walking Dead and Better Call Saul, Steven Ogg, the actor behind Trevor, is still most recognizable from his role in the game. However, he still has no interest in playing it.

Steven Ogg feels “nothing” about GTA 6

Ogg, who was appearing alongside his fellow Grand Theft Auto 5 actors at a convention, was asked about the game and GTA 6, too. “How excited are you for GTA 6?” the actor was asked. 

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“I feel nothing inside,” he quipped back. “I’m not a gamer. I’ve never played video games, so I feel absolutely nothing. 

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“Someone said yesterday ‘at one point you should play GTA 5’ and I said Why? They said ‘cause it’s so great’ and I said one day you should read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and he went completely blank.”

Ogg added that “books are my thing” after imploring the interviewer to read Crime and Punishment now. 

The clip, which was shared by GTA 6 Countdown, has gone on to reach over 2 million views, with fans ‘shocked’ that the actor hasn’t played his own work. 

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There have been claims previously that Ogg “hates” the character, but he refuted that by saying it was an “awesome” job. The Canadian would also be open to returning in GTA 6, but would want Trevor to “pass the touch” to new characters by dying early.

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Call Of Duty Movie: Activision Is Asking What Fans Want It To Be Based On
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Call Of Duty Movie: Activision Is Asking What Fans Want It To Be Based On

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A Call of Duty movie is in the works now at Paramount, but it’s still early days and there isn’t much to go on at this stage. But now, Activision is seeking fan feedback about what they want a live-action Call of Duty movie to be “inspired by.”

A survey being sent to members of the community feedback program Recon Squad asks fans to rank what they want the film to be inspired by. The choices include Black Ops, Modern Warfare, Zombies, or something other than Black Ops or Modern Warfare. Alternatively, Activision wants to know if people would instead want a totally new Call of Duty story to serve as the inspiration for the movie.

The survey was first reported on by Detonated.

EXCLUSIVE | NEW #CallofDuty Recon Survey asks Players to RANK what they want the ‘Live-Action Movie’ to be INSPIRED BY, with these options:

💥 Black Ops
💥 Modern Warfare
💥 ‘Call of Duty Zombies Story’
💥 NOT BO or MW (Ghosts, AW, etc)
💥 NEW Call of Duty Story pic.twitter.com/38hgahd2d9

— DETONATED (@DETONATEDcom) September 18, 2025

Of course, Activision and Paramount aren’t going to make the movie based on fan feedback alone, but the companies are clearly keen on gathering notes from fans.

Paramount boss David Ellison said in the Call of Duty movie announcement that he’s a big fan of the series, singling out the original World War II games, all the way through Black Ops and Modern Warfare.

“We’re approaching this film with the same disciplined, uncompromising commitment to excellence that guided our work on Top Gun: Maverick, ensuring it meets the exceptionally high standards this franchise and its fans deserve. I can promise that we are resolute in our mission to deliver a cinematic experience that honors the legacy of this one-in-a-million brand–thrilling longtime fans of Call of Duty while captivating a whole new generation,” Ellison said.

Activision has been trying to make a Call of Duty movie for years. In 2015, the company established Activision Blizzard Studios and announced it would make an entire universe of Call of Duty movies. At the time, the team said it had plotted out “many years” of Call of Duty movies based on Call of Duty sub-brands like Modern Warfare and Black Ops, but none have ever come to be. Stefano Sollima (Sicario: Day of Soldado) was at one point attached to direct one of the Call of Duty movies, with Oscar-nominated writer Scott Silver signed on to write.

Iconic Hollywood director Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to make a Call of Duty movie, but he apparently had a series of demands that Activision wasn’t willing to agree to.

The next Call of Duty game, Black Ops 7, launches in November. A multiplayer beta for Black Ops 7 launches in early October.





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U.S. Xbox fans hit with another hardware price hike just four months after the last increase
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U.S. Xbox fans hit with another hardware price hike just four months after the last increase

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Xbox consoles are about to become more expensive in the United States. Again.

The hike comes just months after Microsoft raised prices of its products in May, when the Xbox Series S and X increased by between $80 and $130, depending on the spec. While May’s cost hike was felt across the world, this time the increase is limited to the U.S., with Microsoft confirming: “Pricing in countries outside the U.S. remains the same”.

The prices for controllers, headsets, and products “in all other markets” also remain as they were.

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Here’s how the price changes impact the Xbox console range in the U.S. when they go live on 3rd October:

  • Xbox Series S 512: $399.99 (up $20 from $379.99)
  • Xbox Series S 1TB: $449.99 (up $20 from $429.99)
  • Xbox Series X Digital: $599.99 (up $50 from $549.99)
  • Xbox Series X: $649.99 (up $50 from $599.99)
  • Xbox Series X 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition: $799.99 (up $70 from $729.99)

“Beginning on 3rd October, we will update the recommended retailer pricing for Series S and Series X consoles in the United States due to changes in the macroeconomic environment,” Microsoft explained.

“We understand that these changes are challenging, and they were made with careful consideration. Looking ahead, we continue to focus on offering more ways to play more games across any screen and providing value for Xbox players.”

Microsoft did not justify the price rise, but it’s possible the current U.S. administration’s import tariffs have had some bearing. That said, the company reported an 18 percent boost in profits at its last earnings call, and a 13 percent increase across its Xbox business.

If recent reports are true, we likely won’t be seeing Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox console until 2027 at the earliest. But that hasn’t stopped the company from teasing a couple of details as it announced a partnership with AMD to co-engineer the hardware.



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Rockstar Just Made 65,000 GTA 6 Fans Panic For No Reason

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In the span of about 20 seconds and with just a single Discord ping, Rockstar Games got 65,000+ people, nearly all of whom are waiting for Grand Theft Auto 6‘s launch, very excited and then crushed their hopes, dreams, and happiness.

On September 19, at precisely 3:20 p.m. EST, Rockstar Games posted a single message in the GTA Online section of the company’s official Discord server. The message was simply Rockstar Games acknowledging a bug involving a GTA Online weekly challenge that was supposed to unlock a piece of in-game clothing for those who completed it, but wasn’t working properly. Pretty basic GTA Online update. But for some reason, Rockstar Games followed that message up with an “@here.” They did this in a server with 68,097 members. Uh oh!

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For those who don’t use Discord, dropping “@here” pings everyone in the server channel unless they specifically opt out of notifications. And most people don’t do that, especially not in Rockstar’s Discord server, where desperate fans cling to the hope that at any time, the studio could drop a new trailer for GTA 6.  Rockstar Games has also not really done this before. So that random “@here” instantly caused around 68,000 fans to freak the fuck out. Making matters worse is that for many, myself included, the notification simply appeared as “Rockstar Games – @here” with no further context.

I’ll fully admit that when I first saw it, I assumed the company was making some big random announcement about GTA 6. Instead, what I found when I opened Discord was a lot of confused, sad, and angry fans who weren’t sure why Rockstar had done this to them all. “Why!” “Whattt?” “Shut up!” “WTF?!” “No GTA 6??” “Stop it!” and “HOLY SHIT WHY” were just some of the hundreds and hundreds of messages that whizzed by my eyes when I opened Discord shortly after the ping.

I’ve reached out to Rockstar Games about the Discord ping and why it decided to do this. But whatever the reason, it won’t change the fact that for a brief and chaotic moment, 65,000+ people went wild thinking they were about to watch a new GTA 6 trailer or get news of another delay. Nope. There’s no new trailer or other big announcement, and GTA 6 is still set to launch in May of next year.



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Weeks after Silksong’s launch I can’t stop thinking about this streamer’s masterful troll campaign against its fans: ‘They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don’t have car keys, and you’re excited for that?’

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I’ve spent a not-insignificant portion of my waking hours the last few weeks thinking (and writing) about Hollow Knight: Silksong, but I may have actually spent more time replaying a description of the game from streamer Northernlion in my head over and over again like a Nick at Nite rerun.

While Silksong was the focal point of online gaming conversation from its late August release date announcement up until the launch of Borderlands 4, Northernlion not only cheerily avoided streaming it alongside other big Twitch channels, but spent the Silksong hype period roasting viewers who asked why he wasn’t playing it.

“Have metroidvania fans ever considered that walking back is not as much fun as walking forward? I guess I’m just a different kind of beast’,” he joked a few days before Silksong’s release. “You can do metroidvanias if you want, but once I finish with something I’m done with it. I’m moving on. Greener pastures. Oh, you need a double-jump to access that door up there? Well, I guess god doesn’t want me to go up there. I’ll be moving to the right. I’ll be moving to the right and jumping onto platforms that are approximately one times my height above me. That’s about it, man. That’s about it.”


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In the early 2010s Northernlion amassed a fanbase on YouTube with let’s play videos of The Binding of Isaac, but in recent years has become better known for live interactions with his audience on Twitch streams. At some point his ability to riff on basically any topic started generating a consistent stream of viral goofs, rants, and unbelievable moments—enough to earn him a reputation as “your favorite streamer’s favorite streamer.”

So it was perfectly in character when, straight off the dome, he delivered a perfect stream-of-consciousness takedown of metroidvanias as the gaming equivalent of getting to your car and realizing you forgot your car keys.

You can watch it here, but I will now transcribe the quote in its entirety for your reading pleasure:

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“We will not be playing Silksong. Regardless of its reviews, we are being indifferent to Silksong. The reason is, I hate going back for stuff. I hate when I get to my car and then I forgot about my car keys. I’m like, what the hell, now I have to go back to the house?

“They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don’t have car keys, so now you have to go into your basement and get a fucking pogo stick that lets you jump up to the shelf where you’ve got your car keys, only oh wait, your garage door opener is inside something you have to become really tiny to get into, you have to get into your crawlspace to get the garage door opener, and then you go to click it but there’s no batteries, to get the batteries you’ve got to use the pogo stick to get a key that goes into a lock that unlocks to get the batteries but you don’t have the screwdriver to unlock the back of the garage door opener to put the batteries in so you’ve got a use a shovel to dig a hole, you gotta use your pogo stick and get really small in order to get to the shovel that you use to dig up the screwdriver to unscrew the back to put the batteries in to use the garage door opener to get into your car to use your car keys to drive to work.

“They made a game about that, and you can’t wait for it? You’re excited for that? Are you crazy?”

This is a perfect bit. It is immaculately conceived comedy with an unimpeachable narrative throughline that would leave stand-up comedians who’ve spent months polishing the delivery of worse jokes reeling. Per-second it has delivered me substantially more joy than any of the 20 hours I’ve put into Silksong so far, and I love the game.


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The best part is that this is not just a bit; it’s a bit-inside-a-bit, just one moment inside the meta joke of games he plays instead of Silksong, as highlighted in this compilation of subsequent streams.

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“i can’t believe in the middle of the ragebait he plays a puppygirl game out of no where,” reads one of the YouTube comments, reacting to Northernlion booting up a clicker game.

Northernlion’s fanbase has picked up his flair for multilayered and ironic reference-filled in-jokes, as another comment on that same video demonstrates:

“Pro tip: The Lion of the North frequently attempts to Ragebait against the current of the popular. If you do not have the prerequisite endurance or Thick Skin charm, counter by purposefully ignoring his cinema references or feigning absolute indifference towards it. The glass canon nature of this interaction will flip the Soyjak-Gigachad equilibrium to your favour, and soon enough NL will be the irate lion screaming at the calm and composed monkey that is you.”

You can no doubt find an army of YouTubers and Twitch streamers out there currently not playing Silksong, or making videos about why its difficulty is a crime against gamers. But only one who has the composure to blurt out “Shitsong!” and then segue to a diss of James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful. Truly a different kind of beast.



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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds leak reveals more iconic characters coming to its roster, which retro fans will love
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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds leak reveals more iconic characters coming to its roster, which retro fans will love

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds still has some DLC to come, as physical copies show yet-to-be-revealed characters on their way to the kart racer.

As the CrossWorlds name suggests, this latest Sonic Racing game includes crossovers with a bunch of other franchises, both from Sega and other studios. The likes of Hatsune Miku, Minecraft’s Steve, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Pac-Man have all been revealed, among others.

Yet physical copies are now out in the wild ahead of the game’s release on 25th September, revealing more characters on the way.

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As shared on reddit, a flyer inside the box features logos for crossover franchises. It includes Capcom’s Megaman, who has yet to be officially revealed, suggesting we’ll be able to race around as the iconic hero.

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Sonic fan pages Sonic Stadium and Tails’ Channel have both confirmed the flyer in social media posts.

What’s more, Sonic Stadium revealed the back of the box features a render of NiGHTS, the jester character from the iconic Sega Saturn game, suggesting another character inclusion yet to be officially announced. It’s unknown if a themed race track will also be added.

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds will be out next week across PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, and PC.



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Nightreign Mode Is So Hard Fans Can Now Derank Themselves
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Nightreign Mode Is So Hard Fans Can Now Derank Themselves

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It’s only been a week since Elden Ring: Nightreign‘s new hard mode was added to the multiplayer roguelike, and FromSoftware is already patching in some relief after even the most stalwart fans found themselves brutally beaten down. The mode has five depths, with the goal being to eventually complete enough successful runs to reach the deepest and most difficult one. Now, however, players will have the option to arbitrarily boot themselves back up to upper levels so they can stop dying and actually have fun again.

Depth 1 is straightforward enough. While some harder enemies and new item debuffs force players to adapt to the game in new ways, most were able to make short work of it. Then came Depth 2. For my team it was like hitting a brick wall, but others successfully made it to Depth 3. Past that, the game basically becomes a no-hit run mode in disguise. Within a few days some fans were already begging for an option to play on the lower difficulties again just for fun. With a shockingly quick turnaround, FromSoftware has now obliged.

An update that went live today adds “a new feature to voluntarily decrease your Depth ranking by one level.” It also gives loss protection to players at lower Depths, so that your first loss on Depth 3, 4, or 5 won’t immediately lose you points and kick you back to the previous one. This protection even applies if you’re returning to Depth 3 or 4 for the dozenth time. This is mostly for players at the final Depths who lose more points from a loss than they earn for each win.

“Lets go voluntary derank,” one player wrote on the subreddit. “This is based,” wrote another. “But we really just need more bosses.”

The new system allows more casual players the option to enjoy the mechanics in the new mode without having to run something they just keep dying in. At the same time, some players are wondering why FromSoftware doesn’t just nuke the whole ranking up system altogether and just let players choose which Depth they want to play on from the jump. Some fans were also hoping for a true “endless” mode, which was rumored based on original datamines for the Deep of Night update but which appear to have been based on a mistranslation.

Deep of Night is cool overall, but the progression system has been a bit of a bust. It’s also not a replacement for new bosses, maps, or random events during runs. The new difficulty mode will need more tweaks if it’s going to keep Elden Ring: Nightreign in the multiplayer rotation for a lot of current players, especially with so many other big games coming out this fall. But in the meantime, at least everyone can go back and farm the broken Deep Relics they need from easier Depths.



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Silksong Devs Talk Difficulty As Fans Debate If It’s Harder Than Elden Ring

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Hollow Knight: Silksong ratchets up everything from its predecessor. The world is bigger, more detailed, and more dangerous. Team Cherry co-founders Ari Gibson and William Pellen recently spoke about some of their thinking behind making the Metroidvania Soulslike sequel harder, and what players can do to navigate the higher difficulty.

“Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight–so even the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent,” Gibson said during an interview at the ACMI Game Worlds exhibition in Melbourne, Australia, according to reporting by Dexerto. Even basic enemies in Silksong hit harder and can be much more aggressive. That’s because the hero Hornet is much more agile, and Team Cherry wanted to balance that out with more effective adversaries.

“The basic ant warrior is built from the same move-set as the original Hornet boss,” Pellen added. “The same core set of dashing, jumping, and dashing down at you, plus we added the ability to evade and check you. In contrast to the Knight’s enemies, Hornet’s enemies had to have more ways of catching her as she tries to move away.”

If you keep dying, go somewhere else

That was essentially what Gibson’s advice seemed to be from the interview. He argued that Silksong is much less controlling than its predecessor when it comes to where the player can go and explore at various points in the game. “The important thing for us is that we allow you to go way off the path,” he said. “So one player may choose to follow it directly to its conclusion, and then another may choose to constantly divert from it and find all the other things that are waiting and all the other ways and routes.”

The logic is reminiscent of Elden Ring which, despite its punishing enemies and brutal boss fights, was arguably more inviting than previous FromSoftware Soulslikes because the open world allowed players to approach each challenge in unique ways. In addition to being able to grind additional levels, they could also explore off the beaten path until they found a weapon or spell that would tip the balance of power in their favor.

“Silksong has some moments of steep difficulty–but part of allowing a higher level of freedom within the world means that you have choices all the time about where you’re going and what you’re doing,” Gibson said, adding that players “have ways to mitigate the difficulty via exploration, or learning, or even circumventing the challenge entirely, rather than getting stonewalled.”

A clash of design philosophies

There was recently a mini-debate about whether Silksong is actually harder than Elden Ring. The Washington Post‘s Gene Park came down on the side that it is. I would agree, though I think that’s in part because Elden Ring isn’t necessarily one of the harder games out there. Elden Ring is just a hard game that happened to sell over 30 million copies, meaning that its reputation is partly derived from tons of people who wouldn’t normally play a Soulslike actually giving it a try.

Ryan Thompson, an assistant media studies professor at Michigan State, teased out what I thought was an interesting observation about one of the core differences between Silksong and Elden Ring. It’s not just that one is a 2D side-scroller and the other is a 3D open-world RPG; it’s also the way the roots of those genres diverge. “3D games are designed for you to win eventually,” he argues. “2D platformers are originally designed to take your quarter and tell you to piss off.”

That’s an oversimplification, but a helpful one when it comes to a Metroidvania Soulslike like Silksong. As the genre name denotes, it has its feet in two related but distinct traditions. One is 8-bit action platformers of the NES era that seemed to be perfectly content if the kid they were sold to was never able to beat them. The other is a baroque RPG adventure in which the expectation is you’ll be able to level up or learn your way out of any challenge.

Silksong is as much a 2D bullet hell game as a Metroidvania, maybe even more so. The margin for error on screen is more circumscribed than in its 3D counterparts, and its arsenal is more streamlined. It’s borrowing from Castlevania III: Dracula‘s Curse more than Dark Souls, and the result can be more uncompromising. That might be easier to accept if Silksong didn’t also tell an evocative and whimsical story that’s constantly dropping devilish obstacles in your path. But I’ll take that challenge over the original Mega Man any day.



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Don't worry Final Fantasy 14 fans, Yoshi-P isn't going anywhere
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Don’t worry Final Fantasy 14 fans, Yoshi-P isn’t going anywhere

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Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida (Yoshi-P) intends to work on the game “for at least a good while”, even as he works on other projects within Square Enix.

In an interview with Noisy Pixel at Pax West, Yoshida discussed what keeps him working on the MMORPG after 12 years, to which he described himself as “more of a businessman” than a creative person.

“People tend to say we’re creators or creative, but I am an employee at Square Enix and I receive money to make games,” he said, “and I think my primary purpose is to make games so that we are delivering it to gamers out there, fans, players that want to consume our product. I think that is fundamental or a minimum requirement that I have because I belong to this company.”

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He continued that designers working in a company and feeling bored should remove themselves from a corporate environment, but he doesn’t “have that strong personal desire to go into my own creative things”.

“So when asked, do I ever get bored with Final Fantasy 14?” Yoshida concluded. “I don’t think so, because there are a lot of things that I have yet to actualise in 14, things that I want to do, things that I must do, things that require to be taken care of. And so I think for at least a good while, I should be ok.”

Yoshida added he wishes to do less “management or operational things”, joking he may be scolded for his response. “I already do a lot of game developing and I’ve sacrificed some sleep sometimes,” he said, “but perhaps if I were to have a choice, I would like to focus in on the game development design.”

Yoshida is best known for his work on Final Fantasy 14, but in recent years has been pulled into other projects. Yoshida heads up Square Enix’s Creative Business Unit 3, responsible for the MMORPG as well as Final Fantasy 16 and the forthcoming Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. He was also co-producer on Fantasian: Neo Dimension.

In another interview at Pax West, Yoshida requested players stop sending developers demoralising abuse.

“I want to emphasise here, there is a person behind the games,” he said. “While I understand some harsh criticism might be necessary sometimes, there’s a person behind the games that you enjoy and if you have that harsh criticism, I think we would want to have it be constructive.



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