That’s... actually not too much an ask considering single cartridges have sold for more - though there’s always the suspicion that several of those were money laundering schemes and whatnot.

Heeeey, I know that interface and art style. It’s from a game called Alchemy Story, which I like very much... in a relaxing laidback kinda way. xD

True

ROFL, I mean sure... the indoctrinated loves to be paid scrip.

At this point, Denuvo is basically a scam company preying on the outlandish claims big gaming company continues vomiting out regarding piracy because they are too worried about “losing revenue” to understand the reality that is right in front of them - that the absolute majority of people who go through the hassle of…

C’mon guys, it’s not so bad, this was 1994 after all...

Puts a whole other significance into

Huh... despite having put this game on the Ignore list, somehow it entered my library. Humble Bundle perhaps? Seems it’s been there since 2018. Since it didn’t qualify for a refund anymore, I just straight took it out of the list permanently.

“To work on this project we brought more than 70 staff members on board”

Preemptive comment before this comes up, if you are gonna discuss the horribleness that happened when the studio announced they were going with Epic, please read these:

...huh?

....and yet, if you ask around, how many people do you think would know King Lear vs Mario these days? Or being more fair, watched King Lear in theaters or the most recent movie, vs Super Mario Bros The Movie... xD That I’m less certain about, but still, gotta wonder.

Counterpoint - if it’s reliant on “super-fans”, it might as well be dead - at least from the announcement standpoint. Remember, this was supposed to democratize gaming for all or some crap like that.

Newer generations won’t even know that this sort of stigma existed for American comics in the past too... xD

The culprit.

Feels like a time somewhere between Nausicaa and Last Exile. xD

This is a very common misconception on how copyright law works, so I’ll just address it here.

The very early years of 3D, very polygonal and weird, with a horror genre that goes more towards psychological and Lovecraftian (versus action adventure), with extremely clunky controls and an arcade style keep retrying until you don’t die gameplay...

This is nuts!