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Shitty Deflated Beach Ball Award
Shitty Deflated Beach Ball Award
for worst writing / story
Punch up at corporations, not down at players
The Outer Worlds 2
Obsidian Entertainment
French JRPG? Just dunk it in pure concentrated melodrama, why don't you?
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Sandfall Interactive
REVENGE, HONOR, SAMURAI. Yeah, yeah, we get it, we get it.
Ghost of Yōtei
Sucker Punch Productions
Generic military action film where robots take over the world because... aliens.
MindsEye
Build A Rocket Boy
The grand return of a horror classic that isn't scary, atmospheric, or tense, and whose main conflict stems from how being a woman in 1960s Japan was really hard you guys.
Silent Hill f
NeoBards Entertainment
Kojima explaining philosophy again with the subtlety and finesse of a high schooler, but now with even more feet, guitars and blatantly referencial character names.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Kojima Productions, Guerrilla Games
Remember when (You) the hunter was the only person that made an impact in the story?
Monster Hunter Wilds
Capcom
At some point, the LLM writing this garbage hallucinated a double agent, and they had to add another chapter in the game about him so that it would make sense.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
Treyarch, Raven Software
Hey, Samus! Flavor text is available by hovering over nominees! We can learn more about them by giving the ol' mouse pointer a waggle!
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
Retro Studios, Next Level Games, Virtuos
Look, I don't think anybody even cares about the plot in this franchise and since they made Claptrap a revolutionary leader in this one, I assume you guys care even less about it now.
Borderlands 4
Gearbox Software
Regardless of choice, messing with the Greater Seattle Polycule leads to predictable outcomes
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
The Chinese Room
The writers marathoned every Akira Kurosawa film, gave up midway and ended by headcanonning their own fanfiction into it.
Assassin's Creed Shadows
Ubisoft Quebec
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