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I haven’t been this excited about a game since… Kid Icarus Uprising? OK, not exactly a long time ago, but From Software seems to have taken Demon’s Souls and turned it into a Western-RPG slaughtering monster.

Promises include an open world without a decent map system (hoorah for exploration!), the same frighteningly accurate difficulty and a non-existent class-system forcing you to shape a character from scratch.

It’s also set to be released this year. In other words it’s GOTY. It just has to be.

(Some very light spoilers.)

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It’s bloody obvious ain’t it? Inception is just perfect as a role-playing game.

Wandering around dreamscapes trying to rob the target of an idea or trying to put an idea in him is great quest material. And it becomes a great group-effort if you try to ‘go deeper’. The film’s premise alone is a good match for a pen and paper role-playing game with dice.

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