Code Vein 2 epitomizes gaming’s most dire trend: the Swagless Game

In any given year, I play a whole lot of video games. A good chunk of what I play sticks with me in one way or another. Maybe it’s a deeply meaningful game like Despelotethat makes me reflect on the real world. Perhaps it’s something like Mindseye, a game so memorably bad that it takes up rent in my head for years to come. Or maybe it’s a game that’s firmly in the middle, but at least excels in one particular area that gets me thinking. It’s not too often that I play something that just goes in one ear and out the other entirely.