Highway To Oblivion

It’s about to be a fun weekend.

I’m just not in the right place in my life to enjoy this punishing of a game. Fully aware that the game has modifiers that allow you to make the game, and its currency loss on death system, more forgiving. My counter is that if a game necessitates that modifiers be included so as to become more accessible then the developers knew what they were shipping was a difficult game. There’s a lot of design decisions that don’t make sense to me but clearly made sense to the developers: No map, no way to tell where you’re at in a completely open world that allows you to go anywhere in any order. The game’s tutorial is hidden away in a menu that mimics an old manual. Mina tries to be old-school to a fault. It’s fine, really. To the people who are looking for that, this will be video game heaven. I was just hoping for more of an exploration focus with combat included rather than the combat being what determines how far you even get out of the first town, Ossex. I expected Zelda and I got Bloodborne instead. I’m just not a From Software or Souls fan. Sad to say, aside from Cyber Shadow, I’ve not really been a Yacht Club Games fan thus far either.