"I heard from somebody very in the know who worked on the game that they're like Jesus Christ... the tone was like you are all not ready for how amazing this is going to be... and the tone was (I'm not going to say the game that they referenced to compare it to cuz I don't want people to be like Minnmax)... but they compared to a game with a lot of player freedom…"
Mostly the game it is being compared to is Elden Ring
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