I like how Dan brought up The Shining, wondering if it has underlying meanings. Being so ”gung-ho America” it might just blow his mind to find out that it’s a critique of American imperialism.
I’m digging the atmosphere, story, and characters of The Sinking City but man that game is a technical mess, at least on consoles. A recent patch fixed the massive screen tearing that was the worst I’d seen this gen. I’m talking half the screen tearing up every time you moved the camera so that the devil’s hole that got fixed.
Unfortunately the game still has pretty bad stuttering because of a mandatory auto save that triggers anywhere from every 30 seconds to every couple minutes. Stuttering also occurs when the game streams data in which happens often because it’s an open world game and the game is horribly optimized.
For a vertical slice that’s supposed to get you hyped for a game, this had the opposite effect on me. What was shown looks like the bad parts of an Uncharted game: walk forward, here’s some brain dead platforming, now here’s a bland combat sequence, rinse, repeat.
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