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Aug 01, 2026 lore

Vessel to Subject: Both Hollow Knight Games Are Asking One Question

Grounded shrinks you to the size of an ant and lets you measure an insect world with a body: grass blades become timber, dew becomes a pond, an ordinary spider can run you down. That is a shock of ...

Aug 01, 2026
Down and Up: Hollow Knight and Silksong Are a Precisely B...

We are used to reading a sequel as an extension of the original. The relationship betwe...

Aug 01, 2026
The Dessendre Family Explained — Five Kinds of Love in Cl...

A tragedy with no villain. Gustave and Sophie reunite half a life too late, Lumière kee...

Jul 31, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Story Isn't Too Small — Wha...

The most common complaint about the game is that an epic about human survival ends as a...

Jul 31, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Is a Good Story Told Like Som...

A design-minded retrospective after one blind playthrough: how the 9999 damage cap post...

Jul 31, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Lead Writer — There Is No C...

Jennifer Svedberg-Yen on why Sandfall refuses to name a canon ending, why a genuinely h...

Jul 30, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Endings Explained — What the ...

Who is who on each side of the Canvas, why Maelle's position is impossible to resolve c...

Jul 30, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review — The Art, the Combat,...

Lumière dresses death up as a festival. A spoiler-free look at what Sandfall's debut ge...

Jul 30, 2026
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review — The Sailor the Siren...

A review that starts out suspicious of the game's excess and ends up defending it: the ...

Jul 30, 2026
Every Type of Demon Ending in Journey to the West — And W...

Kui Mulang abducted a princess for thirteen years and was sentenced to tend a furnace. ...

Jul 30, 2026
Who Was Sun Wukong Before Journey to the West? A Thousand...

The Monkey King is about a thousand years older than the novel he is famous for. He sta...

Jul 30, 2026
How Sun Wukong Was Rewritten for Four Hundred Years: From...

After 1592 the rewriting shifted from who the Monkey King was to what he meant. Qing co...

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