It’s not bad storytelling to not spoonfeed the story. It is different from the norm, whether you like it or not is up to you. It’s mean to replicate the director Miyazaki’s experience of reading fantasy books in English with limited grasp of the language when he was young, which forced him to cover the blanks with his…

That’s the whole point. Nobody is supposed to be able to get every experience and learn the whole plot on their own when they go into the game blind. Everyone’s supposed to have their own, unique experience. The big picture is only revealed when the different experiences are put together. 

He was in a cocoon, actually. He was trying to be reborn as a true deity, but the cocoon was stolen by his half-brother who was trying to make him a consort, and so we only see Miquella as a half-formed arm sticking out of a dry cocoon in the main game. 

Most games yes, but FromSoft DLCs tend to demand more than most. 

That looks like Miquella riding Torrent...

They have to manufacture batteries to keep cars, walkie-talkies etc. working. 

The mall was sealed because of the Infected, but of course Riley had to go there to set everything up and if there were a whole bunch of active ones there’s no way that she wouldn’t have roused them in the process. Makes more sense that there was just one dormant Infected that only woke up from really loud noise and…

The mall is outside the QZ, blocked off specifically because of the Infected. Ellie mentions in an earlier episode that she got bit because she snuck to a forbidden area.

Soviet and Communist aren’t synonyms by a long shot. 

FEDRA school, I guess? 

Mahjong is like dominoes mixed with poker, actually. You’re probably thinking about Shogi. Both are about as obtuse for Western players, though. 

In Japan it’s called Ryū ga Gotoku 7: Hikari to Yami no Yukue (Like a Dragon 7: Whereabouts of Light and Darkness).

The greatest Sherlock Holmes adaptation was from Granada, starring Jeremy Brett.

A question: If the infected don’t go to rural areas - to such an extend that you can sleep out in the open and not be massively worried about your safety - why would ANYONE bother living in or even visiting a city?

Clearly the government response to the outbreak was a colossal mistake: by herding citizens into bombed-out urban Quarantine Zones, they contained the fungal pathogen but also created death traps for survivors. If the countryside is relatively free from infecteds and fungal networks, do the rich and powerful live in…

Bill was a 2003 era Libertarian. An ancestor to the modern QAnon types, but far less into Right-wing bootlicking. He hated the Bush regime and probably thought the 9/11 was an inside job.

Hell, there was a radical Jewish group who had the full intent on poisoning 3,000,o00 German civilians to death as a revenge for the Holocaust. Practicalities eventually forced them to dial back to a few hundred imprisoned SS troopers, partially because they were afraid of accidentally killing masses of Allied…

It was already picked for season 2 after the second episode. If they’re going to make a season per game then the show probably won’t be longer than that, but I guess it’s always possible that there’ll be an original in-between season.

Broadly speaking, the narrative most Gundam anime follow has a young protagonist battling in a cool mech while the show expounds upon the horrors of war between intergalactic nations.

The Last of Us is great so far, but Arcane is far better still.