Yeah, I don’t think I realized how much nostalgia I had attached to the movie’s music.

The trailer had all the elements that felt good about movie games from back then, but there was a lot of actual trash put out back in the day.

Hopefully the gameplay is good on this.

Thanks. For those that don’t read Japanese (and want to drop it in their favorite MTL or what have you), here’s the relevant interview answer from creative director Jonathan Dumont:

――ネタバレは避けますが、ゲームのオープニング時の映像はちょっとびっくりするような、怪しげな感じでした。本作をクリアーするころには、その謎は解決するのか、あるいは謎に近づくことができるのでしょうか？

ジョナサン 　これは現代編の新しい出発点です。時間とともに発展するストーリー部分があるため、今後の複数のシリーズでも続きのストーリーが語られることでしょう。ここで目にするのは、長年のファンにとってすばらしく感じられる部分であり、新しい物語を予感できるはずです。また同時に、新しいプレイヤーにとっても非常に期待を持ってもらえるようなコンセプトになっていると思います。

Can we get a link? If you mean https://www.gamedeveloper.com/, they’ve only had one article specifically on Shadows this year and it’s about a service platform for the series, not the story.

What’s the source for this?

Had the same thought. Plus, according to some of these reviews, there’s no information age units, so that gives them a possible fourth era to work with in upcoming DLC.

Civ7 does indeed use Denuvo. Concerning for a game like this with far more CPU usage than your typical game.

For me, Civ6 at launch felt like a couple steps forward and a couple steps back. I really appreciated the increased transparency with diplomacy, but the AI was aggressively bad in mid and late-game, something they never ended up getting right.

Just like they wouldn’t the last time…and the time before that…and the time before that…

It’s not a thing at outlets like these. Paid promo from influencers and independent reviews are not the same thing.