CORE 538: Something is Forever

So here it is.

Onimusha, the way of the sword or just way of the sword.

There's no the.

John talked about it at length last week, gushed much love around it, and then immediately beat it this week between

the last time we

spoke.

I played it.

I got it after the show.

Played it a bunch.

I'm not near the end, but I'm early, but I'm having a really good time with it.

The thing that sticks out is what you said last week about how when you start the game, they start breadcrumbing the ability stack to you.

Slowly but surely, you're getting trained, but you're having fun while you're doing it.

And Every time I get to something where I was like, oh, shit, that's a thing I didn't do before.

Aren't we too far into this to teach me a new thing? No, that's what John said.

The game's constantly giving you some new way to hone your skills or to use what you've already learned in some new way.

And that really stands out.

And it's a lot of fun.

I also didn't expect it to be so freaking funny.

There's like legit humor in this thing.

So those who are worried that it's this grim, dark samurai blood fest, whatever, you're going to get a bunch of that, but you're not, it's not all that.

He's kind of a funny character.

And it's really good.

But I don't want to, you guys don't want to hear my early play in the game.

What you want to hear is John's take now that he's beaten it.

And did it rise to the number one slot in his best games of the year so far? Or did it not, John? Oh, wait, John's out of the thing.