A solid DLC featuring the game’s strengths and weaknesses. It definitively does a good job of explaining Leviathan’s absence from the main game whilst approaching it in an interesting and different way from the other Eikons. The main area is stunning and the new characters are compelling and Clive’s as amazing as his companions are useless, standard FF16 stuff we love. And they added in a rogue-like mode, cause that’s what the kids are into these days.

As a side note, I love how every side quest adds lore tidbits, it’s a strength of the game and I love how they kept that. I do wish they weren’t as shoehorned into the UI and had more meat in them, but as a lore nerd I’m satisfied.

I’d just be sad this is it for this cast. They are so great and full of untapped potential it’d be a waste to just move on.

A critique of The Stanley Parable itself would be too ironic for me. An irony that I’m not keen on taking part of, much less if it means creating the opportunity to be made fun of by the devs when The Stanley Parable: Ultra Mega Deluxe Director’s Cut or something comes out.

Instead, I wanted to express how surreal it was to begin the game at 12:00 AM not knowing that the game asks what the time is first thing when booted up, as the default time IS 12:00 AM.

And I realized that only when booting up the game for the second time; it asked the time again, and I adjusted it accordingly. The game mentioned how it was pissed off at how I didn’t adjust the time the first time I booted it up but calmed down after I actually adjusted it the second time around, jokingly saying that it must had actually been 12:00 AM then. But it was.

The coincidence itself is cool and all but it actually mentioning that afterwards was just an awesome meta moment that made the whole game worth it.