I always find one sound effect to hyperfixate on in a FromSoftware game-in Dark Souls, it's the bwaaam of parrying with your shield, a sound so concussive it gives "anti-tank rifle" rather than "little guy swinging his arm through the air." It's ludicrous, but it also makes perfect sense for the most powerful sound effect in the game to play when you are, for just a moment, literally invincible. And the neon bloom of a plasma blade felling a lowly mech or an entire battleship in one charged up blow. And watching the hot flames flickering out and turning to steam when standing still. I will have to spend the next few months restraining myself from commandeering Discord chats to talk about the articulation of these mechs, and the little jolts of glee I got from watching each individual thruster change direction as I skated along the ground. This is Top Gun: Maverick for anime nerds like me who grew up enraptured by Mobile Suit Gundam instead of F-14s. After a decade of making games about overcoming immense adversity, FromSoftware has made one in which you're an apex predator
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