the ps5 port is quite jank, let's get that out of the way - it hard crashed on me three times, softlocked within five minutes of my game, and i couldn't fast travel at arbitrary times even when standing at the specific locations.

but those are minor distractions from a truly beautiful game - the core narrative didn't grab me as much as i wanted it to, it feels like scrolling through twitter, with all the snark, hope, failure and disillusionment that comes with it but the world, the revachol zone of control and the town of martinaise itself - it's there that you feel like you've been let into some universal truth that you've never noticed before.

revachol forever, forever and ever. the ideologues of all colours, or as the moralists would consider themselves - of no colour, will come and go, take our hopes, dreams, fears and tears - crush them, grant them, liberate and imprison them, but revachol, the people, us, live on, survive.

in revachol, some await le retour, some make the conditions for le retour possible, some give up hope on le retour and scrape by. we, of earth, are just the same. le retour can be whatever you hope or despair it to be, but don't give up on humanity.