There is a sense of adventure and despite some of the side missions being a bit bland and the contracts reminding me of the Oblivion radiant quests - there's some real magic buried in this game. I think it would have been better as a linear game instead of cramming in an open-world.

The open world gameplay is in tension with the narrative. The story is trying to inject urgency while you're like "let me go and do this contract to get crafting materials so I can upgrade my ship". I will say that it blows Starfield away in terms of a true sci-fi open world game.

I feel sorry for Clair Obscur. Series S is *not* the correct device to play that on. The voice-acting was wonderful from the bit I watched - skipped most of that segment to avoid spoilers.

When you held up the series S on Big Think I just stood and applauded. I'm looking forward to seeing one of the greatest flop swaps of all time.