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Monster Hunter Wilds. This is a mix bag of “woah it’s great” and “damn they ruined it” for me. The sound design is weaker for some reason, there’s a lot of ride & talk sessions with the story, and lots of “look at that stuff, just look at it” instead of letting us explore ourself and discovering stuff like World, but then the actual gameplay is great. I like that they actually bring back character from past game instead of just referencing them, making the series feels connected instead of disjointed from each other.

To me as a Malaysian: it’s complicated. At least for James Brooke the White Rajah of Borneo, some local do adore him as a ruler, or at least liked him because him ruling mean no more war between tribe.

Also as a non-malay, i cannot imagine or dare to imagine a modern Malaysia where Malaya/Borneo didn’t get conquered by European, because there won’t be one, and seeing how Saudi Arabia turn out to be these day. While British leave a mess here and there, they also leave democracy to this land, combined multiple state into one, abolish slavery(the sultans endorse slavery and enslaved non-muslim), and weakened the sultans to almost a decoration state. So at least now we just have to satisfy the freeloader asking for rent, than a monarchy state that will dictate everyone based on a fantasy book from ages ago.

So while the coloniser(Portuguese, dutch, then brits) are bad guy, the one they colonised also very much a bad guy. To me they’re like the left but from Injustice universe.

Played Hades 1, it’s super good when it clicked, if not it will feels like any other roguelike.

Maybe Wolfenstein 1 or Bloodstained, my list is super long and there’s like tons of game i wanna play. Bang for buck wise i’d go for Wolfenstein 1 & 2 probably.