Which usually crumbles under its own weight - I don't remember people saying King Kong game was immersive thanks to the lack of UI; it led to more confusion.

The thing I personally like about certain games is that they feel "immersive" as a mix of "logically deducible rules" plus "social life".

Yeah I also happened to write a bunch of words about it and basically came to conclusion that "immersion" as understood by US game industry is a foremost tech/haptic/perceptive value. As in "you die in the game - you die in real life"memes/plots - the technical wizardry able to fool you.

That's good to read.

I was perfectly fine with Nightreign's concept (roguelite-y spin-offs are not unheard of in Japanese games - see Mystery Dungeon), but I never thought it would end up scratching the itch of 'actually good 3D beat' em ups', which Nightreign is in a way.

Hyped to play more.

Не считая интервью с Колантонио для книги, где про Dishonored мы говорим - и таким текстом карма отягощена (это не столько об игре, сколько ответка-размышление): panmeditat.substack.com/p/b3f

Есть такой грешок, давно уже. Наверное, как и в случае с Dishonored, апдейтну текст потом для сабстэка: dtf.ru/games/745806...

I am in this picture and uhhh I am okay with it, I guess

Like, you can't heal members of different confessions or iconoclasts, use of miracles is further limited by license and paperwork (mauling people is - unsurprisingly - not), self-education is thoroughly disencouraged.

Which leads to worst enemies of the Church being more devout in their faith.