{"id":5337,"date":"2022-06-26T04:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/why-did-nobody-tell-me-how-profound-returnal-is\/"},"modified":"2022-06-26T04:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:50:47","slug":"why-did-nobody-tell-me-how-profound-returnal-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/thegamer-originals\/why-did-nobody-tell-me-how-profound-returnal-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Nobody Tell Me How Profound Returnal Is?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn\u2019t play Returnal when it came out in 2021 because I wasn\u2019t in the mood to have my ass kicked over and over again, but I felt like I knew a lot about it. I heard it was painfully difficult and that a lot of people never made it past the first boss. I heard it was the first great 3D bullet hell and that more games should follow in its footsteps. I heard that the DualShock features were great and that the lack of a System Save was terrible. But what I didn\u2019t hear was anything at all about the story, or what Returnal is actually about. After finally playing through it this weekend, it\u2019s the only thing I want to talk about. There\u2019s something profound about the way the experience of playing Returnal mirrors the themes it explores, and I think Housemarque deserves a lot more credit for the novelty it brought to both the roguelike and the time loop game. <\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t play Returnal when it came out in 2021 because I wasn\u2019t in the mood to have my ass kicked over and over again, but I felt like I knew a lot about it. I heard it was painfully difficult and that a lot of people never made it past the first boss. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thegamer-originals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}