Aliyn Raven

"Monster Hunter Wilds" has a very strange design: the monsters are so sweet that you want to kill the heroes so that they don't touch the cute animals. Of course, the teasers say very little about the plot and the game, but the "play as monsters" option is already needed.

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Assassin's Creed Shadows
I feel like I've been robbed of a great, exciting story. A black or white foreigner could rise to the top in medieval Japan, it was IRL. But Japan wasn't Venice or England, it was a closed world, and any foreigner there was an unusual event. I want to see how hero integrated, what was easier and what was more difficult for him. Otherwise, it’s not clear why a foreigner would be brought into a story about medieval Japan.

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I was thinking about trying the game Assassin's Creed Shadows and decided:
- Rewatch the Shogun series—a charming opening of Japanese culture through the eyes of a foreigner and the exciting complexity of his adaptation.
- Rewatch a movies with Will Smith and Eddie Murphy.

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"Avowed," new impressions.
So far it's a children's fairy tale, but for some reason it's not boring, and I don't want to drop it. There's some kind of charm here. I don't regret the money I've spent.

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"Avowed" is a rare case among video games: a good playthrough brings a cool reward in the end—your hero will be the king (queen) of a new country. This isn't a spoiler but a reason to buy the game: I want to choose what to strive for in the game, and I always read about endings.

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"Ravenbound" is a charming advertisement and a monstrous disappointment as gaming. To be fair, the hero's transformation into a raven and the flights are gorgeous, but everything else, i.e. 90% of the game, is dreary, ugly drawn, and extremely inconvenient to control.

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I want an RPG video game with a "From trash down to sparkly crown" plot.
*Oh, all RPGs are like that!* (Gaming community)
What? Really?
Almost always, the hero gets a zilchburger for saving the world, and the NPCs enjoy the chocolate that the hero brought them. Even if a game has an option where a hero gets a reward worthy of his efforts, and a gamer chooses it, a game calls the hero evil, NPCs hate him, a game world plunges into darkness, etc. In other words, a game almost always has a world that does not deserve to be saved.

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It's funny to hear about wokism in video games. Games must make a lot of money for several years. In the 2-3 months after a game is released, a vocal minority buys it. And then the silent majority pays a lot more. And they have other tastes. The game should satisfy exactly them.

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To understand whether video games need same-sex romance, gender-swapping, alternate genders, different skin colours, and so on, look at the popularity of mods that provide these things and the sales of the game after the mods are released. Game developers look at reality.

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Skyrim (2011)
It seems that since then there has never been a game that can fully satisfy a gamer.
BG3 has beautiful visuals, combat strategy, gay romances, lots of stories, quests, jokes, clothes, puzzles—I love it all, but I desperately lack a house that can be furnished.

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