Yep! Progression carries over. I played the demo all the way through and carried everything over to the full game.

I’ll definitely say this: when I played the demo, the Distant Future chapter didn’t hook me as much. The protagonist is a weird lookin’ little robot, there’s no combat (outside of the mentioned optional in-universe video game you can play), and it starts with the crew having little bickering moments that I didn’t…

You forgot to mention population one VR...

Even $300 is a lot to ask for a form of games that doesn’t really have a killer app yet.

This game looks AWESOME! Holy crap, its like the blend of games I didn’t know I wanted. Can’t wait. 

If you have Netflix you get the game free on Android and IOS devices too. It’s on my iPhone now, which is why my wife thinks I have dysentery.

I wouldn’t write it off based on this one review. Every other one I’ve read has been pretty overwhelmingly positive. Kotaku has become notorious for writing negative, condescending, clickbait titles since the scandal a few years back and subsequent staff changes. I only come to scan headlines and see if I’ve missed…

This kind of stuff is, as you note of course, entirely predictable and it seems frankly not enough consumers care. As a physical media embracing old person, I realized I lost the battle when my physical copy of the rebooted X-COM required me to download Steam and the game itself. I am not a proponent of piracy in an…

It does still exist, just not really on Kotaku, now that Jason is gone.

In terms of gameplay only, it does feel like something that would be a $10 mobile game. Maybe even f2p if they turned the mansion cosmetics into a microtransaction den. It’s the music/story that really bring it up and even that wouldn’t make me buy it above $20, and I really liked the game enough to get it on both PC…

I likes Hades, but $14.99 seems like it should be its regular price.

While always good. I hope that means money and action.

Agreed. City and Origins both had obnoxious limitations to just getting around the city - in Arkham City it was always having to go all the way around Wonder Tower (and the huge chunk of real estate it and its fortifications took up), while in Origins it was having to slog your way across Pioneer Bridge to get between…

To be fair, it’s easier to not care about delays when you are an indie studio that created a bestseller.

Tbf I think Ari in particular is just basically salty about everything. It seems all their articles have to take snide swipes at whatever the subject matter is.

Just in case I’m not the only one struggling to find said trailer in this article -

Those other people got paid.

Many moons ago we got some Force Unleashed sets, with a particularly sick personal ship for our boy Starkiller and Juno.

They sure do talk a lot about character arcs and plot points while not showing any real extended story focused footage.

I’d say you’re being a little dramatic, but this is Kotaku