'Ludonarrative dissonance, ludonarrative dissonance,' Yeah shut the fuck up, this game's got a barbershop quartet, a spooky ghost, and a lighthouse in it

You take an engine you've polished to a mirror shine over like a decade or so, and then you just add more and more stuff to it until everyone agrees it's a masterpiece. It worked for the Shanghai Maglev Train and it works for Elden Ring

Yeah doing a wheelie makes you go faster but it's dull to just travel in a straight line; this isn't TRON