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I might be old, but that doesn’t make me a historian. It’s entirely possible thatis not the first videogame where you play as a shark terrorizing the entire food chain, up to the narcissistic humans who’ve ruined the whole damn world. Maybe there was ais unlike any game I’ve ever played—but alsotoo much like too many of the open-world games that have come out over the last decade. At first Tripwire’s cartoon shark game reminded me a little of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater; instead of doing tricks, though, I was cutting through the water in search of fish and gators to chomp on, and occasionally doing leaps and flips in the air not because the game wanted me to but because it. As the map filled out more, and icons started to spread over it, each one pressuring and pleading with me to go hunt another animal, or rip through another school of fish,started to feel too much like a list of chores. It starts to sink under the weight of this Ubisoft-style onslaught of obligations.hooks you with the freedom and grim insouciance of a shark, and then suddenly tells you to get to work. That structure doesn’t ruin the simple pleasures of undersea animal fights—although a less-than-optimal targeting system can complicate things a bit too much—and despite the repetition, squaring off against an alligator, barracuda or bounty hunter never entirely loses its primal excitement. An unrelenting, only intermittently funny sense of humor proves to be a double-edged sword, even with Chris Parnell’s rock-solid delivery.’s core is unique—I’ll give it that—and there’s a surprising, almost inexplicable peacefulness to it when you’re not worried about missions and collectibles and Parnell’s patter, or the clumsy Cajun and hillbilly stereotypes of the human characters and the game’s reality show backdrop. If you’ve ever lost a friend or loved one to a shark attack, doplay this game—10 minutes into the tutorial you’re already devouring humans in two or three bites.—At some point, you have to ask yourself not what interested you in a game in the first place, but what it is that keeps youthat game when you’ve seemingly reached what is more or less the end of new content. That’s where I am withthese days—both myself and my wife have sunk in a truly heroic amount of time into building up the esteem of our fair island, and it’d be safe to say we’ve entered’ endgame, if it even has one. We’ve both expanded our houses to their largest size. We’ve achieved the elusive 5-star island rating. We’ve caught every wild beastie currently available, with the exception of that damnable Mahi-mahi. I even made it to the peak of the “Cast Master” achievement mountain the other day, registering 100 flawless casts in a row. It’s fair to ask what there is left toAnd as the days crawl by, I increasingly see the differences in how two different players are answering that question. For me, interest inis on the waning side, and I realize that my fondness for it revolves largely around things like fish and bug-catching novelty. That means I’ll likely be logging on more at the start of each new month, to catch that month’s new creatures and add them to our sprawling museum. For my wife, however, the island represents more of a living puzzle project—a continuously shuffling layout of houses, gardens and mini-games related to such subjects as flower breeding, landscaping and themed furniture that most of our clueless residents will never really use. She delights in deciding upon sweeping changes to the island infrastructure, deciding to raise or lower a cliff in order to replant 100 tulips, roses or pansies. It’s a deeper level of participation in the real meat ofthan I will ever have the patience to partake in, but it makes me glad she happened to stumble upon this series right as the creeping pandemic decimated our normal social calendar. Truly, for those with an organizational bent, even the endgame of: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, Mac I’ve devoted an extremely significant portion of my life to role-playing games. I’d go as far as to say that I didn’t truly love videogames until I played my first JRPG, despite spending the entirety of my childhood with them. RPGs just hit differently for me. And—I don’t say this lightly—is quite possibly the best RPG of all time for me. It is a game that often left me speechless from its beginning, and even now that I’ve finished it, I’m still often in disbelief at how it exists. It’s one of those creations by humanity that is so intricate, so grand, so perfect, that I can watch several documentaries that provide insight into how it came to be, and I’m still unable to comprehend it. Its writing is witty beyond belief; its characters rich, frustrating, hilarious and endearing in equal measure; its universe visibly expansive and designed with equal amounts of brilliance and love. The number of ways any single battle or interaction can go is ridiculous—let alone the combinations that culminate into a nearly 100 hours-long experience that sincerely has no right to be as good as it is. It’s a challenging game, which would be enough to deter someone like me, who is very bad at games. But it’s a world so charming and exquisite that it sticks with you. It’s been two years since I played it for a week, blasted through it to the last chapter, and forced myself to let it go once I began studying at a university. I knew I no longer had the bandwidth to appreciate this game the way it deserved. Something this perfect demanded as close to perfection as I could give it. And so I patiently waited for the moment when I’d hear its incredible melodies draw me back in, refusing to let me go until I saw this marvel all the way to its end. This week, I finally did, not only satisfying that itch I have for the BioWare games I’ve so deeply loved, but also getting so much more than I could have expected. After finishing what I now know is the best RPG in my book, I cannot be more excited for
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