Parrying Is Either The Best Or Worst Thing In Video Games

On this week’s episode, Riley, Luke, and Isaiah intend to talk about a lot of topics, but mostly can’t keep themselves from talking about Clair Obscur . We start by talking about two stories Aftermath ran this week: one in favor of parrying in video games, and one against. Those stories kicked off a flurry of discourse on social media, which we found mostly to be in good fun, and we talk about how those kinds of conversations are different now that we’re at Aftermath instead of a larger site. Clair Obscur features parrying, so then we talk about that game a whole lot. Then, we discuss this week’s layoffs at Electronic Arts, which follow on the heels of *other* layoffs at Electronic Arts. We wonder why several companies have run into trouble with licensed games, and we talk about the challenge of getting players excited about Marvel games when the MCU is facing its own uphill battle. Last, we talk about what games we’re playing lately. Luke goes through a lot of games he didn’t like before landing on one he did, 9 Kings . Riley wishes he were playing more Clair Obscur , so then we talk about that game a whole bunch more, and we debate whether it can ever be “too late” to talk about…