What Are You Playing?

[Parkus]

I decided to finally finish up the last of us 2 with the release of its s2 for the show after having it up in my library for the past 2 years. Close to wrapping it up but this kind of made me buy the first game which I'd have already watched an entire playthrough about awhile back. I had known it had a multiplayer aspect and surprisingly it's still decently active though sometimes you could queue with the same people a bunch. I've been weirdly drawn to it and it kind of makes me wish they didn't cancel the online mode they had in store for the second game.

 

[Phonon89]

I am mostly finished with clair obscur: exhibition 33. @Lawliet Already made a good extensive post about the game. I would say at this point it is in my fluctuating list of top ten favorite games of all time.

Not only could I gush about the story, gameplay and art direction for hours. But I also love the story behind the games development. It's no sage news but smaller development teams seem to create the best stuff. So of course I have been listening to some developer interviews now that I finished the main story up.

The lead developer Guillaume Broche is on record in this interview saying he is a big manga reader. Some of the manga he listed by name as inspirations were Monster, Berserk and Attack on Titan.

I mentioned in the chat but I am not surprised at all as while I played there were a few areas and points that made me think "I feel like someone on that team has read Berserk." I wasn't surprised when the developer confirmed it but it just makes me love the game that much more.The music also did remind me some of the different Berserk anime OSTs but that could just be more coincidental. Where ever the the composer Lorien got his influences from though I want to know because the soundtrack is also game of the year material.

He mentions Berserk around 36 minutes in.