So were in a vaguely Disco Elysium sort of area thats at the midpoint — Fully Ramblomatic

"In Talos Principle 1, we were an AI in a virtual world going through a process to develop our sentience which, for reasons I wasnt entirely clear on, involved solving a hundred million line-of-sight laser reflecting puzzles... "Do you want us to explain it to you, Yahtz!?" Thats okay, Talos Principle 1... "Its no trouble! We wrote like nine hundred in-universe text logs explaining the philosophical link between sentience and filling the backs of cereal boxes!" Im sure you did, Talos Principle 1. I dont have time to read them now; could you pop them in my novelty inbox thats designed to look like a dustbin?"

"I wont spoil anything, but if youre wondering why Alan Wake American Nightmare is no longer canon, its because it had a satisfying ending that tied up all the loose ends that might have kept the DLC and sequel train a-rolling indefinitely, and you can be fucking well certain Alan Wake 2 is determined not to repeat that mistake."

"Alans game takes a more Silent Hill-y approach where we systematically explore an abandoned hotel or dog grooming salon, looking for the locked doors and the keys to open the locked doors like a janitor on his first day whose supervisor isnt answering their phone, with the added twist of Alans power to rewrite the story to alter certain rooms and open up new doorways. It gives a rather effectively creepy feel of being trapped in a surreal, introspective world with a sense of reality as reliable and permanent as a career in corporate tech journalism."

"It is very cute. I want to pinch RoboCops little cheek and jiggle it til it makes a sound like a metal mixing bowl being cleaned with a chamois leather. Because its totes adorbs the way RoboCop: Rogue City thinks its a real game. Its trying so gosh-darned hard with its accurately modeled likenesses of the original actors that animate so awkwardly, you can practically hear the squeaking of gears as their mouths flap up and down."

"I think it was during the third kingdom that my boredom with the combat reached critical mass, and I decided it probably wouldnt make a splash in the scandal press if I were to just kick it in the head and watch the rest of the cutscenes on YouTube. After which, I discovered Id successfully predicted all the reveals and twists in the plot, including that at the very end it would turn out that the mastermind was a hitherto unintroduced corrupted faux benevolent god, and we defeat them with the power of friendship. But not that I have the power of prophecy. It was primarily my profiency in Persona pattern perception."

"But the cultural vogue is constantly adapting, and thats presumably why, with RoboCop: Rogue City, developers Teyon are pioneering a new interesting counterpoint to the "movement shooter." Namely, the plod-around-like-youve-got-tea-trays-strapped-to-each-foot-and-two-pounds-of-rapidly-cooling-shit-threatening-to-leak-out-the-legs-of-your-underpants...-shooter. Or, to use its original name, Gears of War."