Dead Cells: Fatal Falls is a game about fifty fifties.
Sometimes it's scary to watch how efficient a player without integrity can be, but then I remember what you sacrifice for that buff. It's a terrible min/max build that doesn't work to scale. Melts mobs in the early game, cruises through the mid, then hits that big fat wall come late-game, every. single. time.
Take for instance hates latest pivot. The last decade was all about establishing the build, manipulating toolsets and game rules to move an agenda forward and accomplish an objective. Put a useful idiot in power, sow chaos, weaponize at least 48% of the server. Done.
Let me slow down for the people that have under 1000 hours logged in strategy games. It's like this, hate had a set number of turns to get done what they needed to get done. Four years, possibly eight. They got four.
Plus they finished the round with a full meter. They have in place the martyr, the zealots, and proved that it's possible to get away with murder as long as it's a certain class and as long as the swarm is large enough. The bug is now a feature.
Nothing left to do in politics, dishes are done. Time to move on to the economy. With the other guys in power, the narrative will shift to a full-on economic existential crisis that they can safely punish the other side with every time they make a move. Nothing to do with racism (spoiler: it's still hella about racism), sound familiar?
But all that noise about the economy is just the feint to cover the true strat, which is the goal of learning to manipulate the US trade market in real-time by crowdsourcing the illegal act of insider trading under the guise of anti-hedge fund, pro-vox populi, Robinhood, stick it to the man bullshit. Want proof? Go check out GameStop's stock right now. Lucy and that football, time and again.
They are doing it for three reasons. One, because they are bored. Two, because wars cost money. And Three, to prove that the "good guys" will gleefully cheer on the same type of crowdsourced crime they admonished a few months ago as long as it "hurts the right people."
And they are gonna get away with it because the people that could stop them are, as Dr. King put it, "more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
Anyway, Dead Cells is a fantastic game and the DLC is just a continuation of its greatness. Shouts to info, and what?! Nah fam. Music is music and storytelling is storytelling. Shouts to Chris LeDoux. You reading the vibe all wrong. rip. TB rip. TC rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
