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All eyes are on Rockstar’s return — and on Nintendo’s successor to the Switch.
Chief among them is the art direction: There’s a vibrancy and punch to the vivid color palette that borders on psychedelic and studio Obsidian seems to be leaning into weird flora and fauna à la James Cameron’s Avatar franchise and even Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris and Southern Reach novels. The pivot in perspective feels crucial: In letting us indulge our destructive, hedonistic fantasies as a woman — robbing banks, high-speed joyrides, lounging at pool parties — the series may yet rekindle the transgressive streak which originally made it such a cultural force in the 2000s. French studio The Game Bakers wants you to feel the physical intensity of actual mountaineering by making you pay close attention to the trembling limbs of protagonist Aava and listening to her increasingly shallow breaths as her stress level rises.
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