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I made a mistake. Yesterday, I had to stop playing
Returnal, a tough-as-nails action game released last week exclusively for PS5, mid-run to tend to some chores. You know, like shopping for groceries and drinking rosé on my roof. When I returned to my PlayStation 5 this morning, a pop-up notification informed me that
Returnal had updated. I immediately realised…that run I was on? Gone, erased, consigned to the dustbin of history forever.
Part of this is my fault. (I’ve played a lot of the game, and should know better by now.) But it’s also the result of how
How To Not Die (As Much) In Returnal
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The science-fiction action game
Returnal, out today for PlayStation 5, drops you all by your lonesome on a haunting, uncharted exoplanet. It’s a gorgeous, fresh, fascinating game that’s well worth sticking with. It’s also quite difficult. As with any game built around a live-die-repeat structure, you will die a whole, whole lot on your escapades through Atropos. Here’s how to make sure that doesn’t happen, or at least doesn’t happen as often.
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I’m sure you’ve felt it too. For the past year and some change, life has fallen into a rut more than usual. Life is always cyclical to some degree humans are, after all, creatures of habit but the stresses that go hand-in-hand with a certain mismanaged pandemic have made the day-to-day feel more dreary and cyclical than ever.
Returnal, an action game out tomorrow for PlayStation 5, captures that sensation in a bottle.
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To play
Returnal is to subject yourself to repeated lessons in failure. Every time you play, you’ll do the same thing, except slightly different, except the same, really. You might, at the end of a session, walk away with the inexorable, all-consuming notion that everything is futile, that nothing will ultimately change, and that it’s just not worth it, man.
Returnal: The Kotaku US Review
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I’m sure you’ve felt it too. For the past year and some change, life has fallen into a rut more than usual. Life is always cyclical to some degree humans are, after all, creatures of habit but the stresses that go hand-in-hand with a certain mismanaged pandemic have made the day-to-day feel more dreary and cyclical than ever.
Returnal, an action game out tomorrow for PlayStation 5, captures that sensation in a bottle.
To play
Returnal is to subject yourself to repeated lessons in failure. Every time you play, you’ll do the same thing, except slightly different, except the same, really. You might, at the end of a session, walk away with the inexorable, all-consuming notion that everything is futile, that nothing will ultimately change, and that it’s just not worth it, man.