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116: Finding Hope in Loss with Red Hook Studios (Darkest Dungeon II)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

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The Darkest Dungeon Game

I play it for about like 14 hours now as far as I can tell there's no Hamlet. The thing that survived is the core element of the turn based combat with the lineup before and the different elements around that but pretty much everything else despite still existing has been run through a large mixing machine. We wanted to challenge ourselves as developers to create kind of a a new experience so that you could play darkest dungeon one to scratch your ex-comfortable itch then go out and play dark dungeons two. It was an interesting journey for us because doing a sequel comes with a lot of expectations and we knew that but we chose a very specific path.

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