Samson
Samson came out today.
It's an open-world brawler from a studio founded by Christofer Sundberg, the creator of Just Cause. The second and third entries in that series are legendary open-world games and incredibly fun to play.
There are currently ten reviews on Metacritic. One is above 60. The overall score is 53.
It's impossible to understand how someone who was so intimately involved with Just Cause could screw up this badly. All you had to do was make Just Cause 2 or 3 again! Just put it in a different setting and make minor changes and the review scores would have been 30 points higher.
Of course, Just Cause 4 was a complete cluster and genuinely unfun (Sundberg left a year after its release), so maybe the magic was already gone.
It's just a long, long fall for someone who has such a strong pedigree. Knowing what is fun and then making something that isn't is such a waste.
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