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Oh wow. You mean to tell me that Activision-Blizzard was full of shit and they don't actually mean it when they say they want to fix the harassment issues plaguing the entire company and it was all just lip service because they're scummy fucks? I DON'T BELIEVE IT!

Triangle Strategy This was a fun little TBS RPG. I also loved the political intrigue, and how your choices affect it. It's basically like a PG-13 Game of Thrones, and it works surprisingly well. Some aspects of the political situation seem overly simplistic or naive, but if you accept those things as the driving factors then the actions of the individual groups make sense. The combat was what you might expect from a turn-based strategy RPG, it did its job fine, but wasn't anything standout. The real star of the show is the story and your path through it. The way you make story choices is interesting. You have your party, the main members of which are essentially a governing council, and they vote on what to do. Before each vote you can talk to them and try to sway them one way or the other to influence how the vote goes, via a three-pronged persuasion scale, called your "convictions", and additional options are opened by finding information in the world. The one gripe I have about it is even though you're the leader, you don't actually get a vote yourself, you can only try to persuade the others, which seems weird. Overall though it's a really cool idea, and I hope to see it expanded upon in other games. Grade: B

You do unlock permanent upgrades for the various guns, just not proficiency, which isn't weapon specific, and you get the Ether that carries over and you can spend on permanent item unlocks, but I get what you're saying. I think the difference for me was I very quickly gitted gudder at Returnal, so I reliably got farther each run, but with Hades I didn't feel like I was increasing in skill, and the 1% God mode boost each run wasn't enough to compensate for that, so I felt like I was barely making any progress.