Tessera

kept you waiting huh

Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wolverine ends with Logan looking at the player saying he guesses he really is the last of us.

Like, it's not like all of this stuff isn't important, especially in certain contexts. But gosh, do hardcore game players even like playing games anymore?

Shaun Musgrave @shaunmusgrave.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's always been a problem with gaming discourse, but it's frustrating how little discussion there is about the actual games now. Between sales data, layoffs, delivery media, performance analysis, weirdo extremists, review scores, etc it's like the game is the least important thing about games now.

India midnight launches for Wolverine are going to be just that — mid. You’d think by now Sony India would realise these work best when reviews are good. Should have taken a call after they went live.

Derek Van Dyke @derekvandyke.bsky.social · 3w ago

peak bullshit from square enix and hamaguchi just say you hate your fans and you want to control games ownership instead of lying

Extremely ready for a $1000 PS6 that launches with only the same third party games that exist on everything you already own but you have to spend $80 a pop for digital licenses (or just $20 for the digital upgrades!) and promises of future first party titles releasing halfway through the generation.

Liam Robertson @liamrobertson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Maybe one of the worst possible outcomes to this situation.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 3w ago

XBOX and KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS Expand Partnership to Publish PHYSINT news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...

Third! @hdkirin.bsky.social sat down with Naoki Hamaguchi for RPG Site and got into the weeds on costumes, DLC, and combating icon vomit on the map: bsky.app/profile/rpgs...

"No, the outfits Cloud and Tifa wore at Wall Market will not be included as a skin" FF7 Revelation Director Naoki Hamaguchi & Battle Director Teruki Endo on why the iconic dresses aren't in, why FITS instead of Jobs, & more! https://www.rpgsite.net/interview/21323-ff7-revelation-pax-west-interview

Then @professorrpg.bsky.social took a very classically focused RPG Site approach to the demo, putting his attention specifically on this: what's it like to fight Ruby Weapon in Revelation? He did it. Or tried, anyway. bsky.app/profile/rpgs...

Scott already loves what Final Fantasy VII Revelation is doing with the boss battles after fighting the Ruby Weapon. His thoughts: https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/21339-ffvii-revelation-ruby-weapon-fight-boss-battle-full-impressions

Respec@respec.net · 3w ago

And finally, @luckychanjr.bsky.social spoke to Hamaguchi /again/, for @respec.net, where he talked about the push for Revelation to be a game that redefines FF as more than "just a JRPG"! bsky.app/profile/resp...

"I want people to see it as an open-world action adventure" - Final Fantasy VII Revelation's director on moving the game and franchise beyond being "just a JRPG" https://bit.ly/46AoQyp

That interview also includes the quiet reveal that the 'Steamlined Progression' some latecomer fans got used to in Remake/Rebirth will NOT be in Revelation at launch: bsky.app/profile/rpgs...

Final Fantasy VII Revelation will not have Streamlined Progression at launch | RPG Site

It will be patched in at a later date.

rpgsite.net

Final Fantasy VII Revelation will not feature Streamlined Progression at launch. Naoki Hamaguchi says it will be added "after a certain time has passed": https://www.rpgsite.net/news/21341-final-fantasy-vii-revelation-streamlined-progression-will-it-have-at-launch-hamaguchi-response

Busy FF7 day here! First off, here's me on RPG Site absolutely mind-blown by the size of the game but made a bit nervous by the kitchen sink approach (less can be more sometimes, after all)...

Final Fantasy VII Revelation is massive, impressive, and makes me a little nervous - hands-on: https://www.rpgsite.net/preview/21340-final-fantasy-vii-revelation-massive-impressive-makes-me-little-nervous-hands-on

headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 3w ago

i know after having his loyalty betrayed big boss took money from war criminals to fund his dream but this is a bit on the nose

Can you really blame him?

PlayStation losing Kojima would be a mythical screw up in any console generation except this one. As Sony has already been hellbent on burning down everything it built up.

remember, you might be bad at your job but you're never going to be as bad as the playstation exec that fumbled the company's relationship with kojima to the point where xbox took advantage of it

Kojima is the realest one. While some said boycotting PlayStation over them killing physical media wouldn’t make a difference homeboy yeeted his entire business from PlayStation to make a point.

Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 3w ago

normies: gotta preorder a digital rental of muh gta 6 now because it’ll go out of stock if i don’t and struggling indie rockstar needs the money ps5 fans: why boycott, it doesn’t matter, slop me up daddy sony kojima: fuck it, i’ll just move my projects to xbox

Hello hello, decided I'm just going to start writing my essays on my own thing, instead of bottling them. Here's my first on Dawnwalker's use of time as narrative tool

Why The Blood of Dawnwalker's time mechanic is better than you realise

Far from being a hindrance, making time a finite resource shapes stories and undermines the idea of open-world bloat

criticalverdict.beehiiv.com