Top of mind for me after reading this article is that Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet should just be called The Heretic Prophet, and Horizon: Zero Dawn should have just been called Zero Dawn.

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    Let’s just be glad video games aren’t named like manga/anime are and we have “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild” instead of “I slept for 100 years after the world was destroyed and now have to face the demon king”.

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      my favorite game growing up was, “Italian plumbers take too many mushrooms and go on a rampage through the kingdom to save the princess from the evil turtle”

      although a close second was, “I am trapped in a dark maze with drugs and now there are ghosts chasing me?!?”

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      Currently playing “That Time I Was Stranded in a Dark Fantasy World With No Quest Markers, Had to Defeat Every Boss By Dying and Reviving Hundreds of Times to Level Up, and Became the Old Lord of the Ring by Accident”