"It didn't feel like it had as many a, you know, hooks or upgrades to make me feel like i was getting more powerful," says Russy. At a certain point of upgrading your arcad your dad starts giving you to do lists and he pays you actual direct money. "They're sort of creating a fake stress with the the chores that you have to do to make the playing of the games,. like that part is more immersive and not necessarily entertaining."
If you think you just played a version of the original The Last of Us, we're here to tell you that you probably did, but here's a new one with prettier graphics! Well, pretty is maybe not the right word as much as it is far more viscerally depressing now.
Also discussed: Bounty of One, Zor: Pilgrimage of the Slorfs, Arcade Paradise, Dark Souls 2, and Immortality.
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