those categories then. Dave, what do you sort of make of them more generally? I actually kind of loved that there's so much here for my personal taste in multiplayer and multiplayer shooters, so there was just like an abundance of choices in those. I think more broadly, across the other missions, I have like Dark Souls in about six categories that I could pick it in, because like there are certain games, Dark Souls being one of them, and there's a few games like this, where it has so many iconic moments here and…
the gratification and the reward of finally defeating them was was unlike any other boss battle that I played before. And yes I spent too many hours attempting it and I will say some of that is I went off and I leveled up and then I came back again but that was a blocker for 30 hours of my game time in the first Dark Souls. And Analondo in general anyway is just one of the most beautiful and sort of haunting game locations in any game that I've ever played. And obviously Dark Souls really made its mark in terms…
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... aggressive. Building out strategies different like trying it with different like player builds. It is in my mind the most intense boss battle I've ever encountered and obviously like the the gratification and the reward of finally defeating them was was unlike any other boss battle that I played before. And yes I spent too many hours attempting it and I will say some of that is I went off and I leveled up and then I came back again but that was a blocker for 30 hours of my game time in the first Dark Souls. And Analondo in general anyway is just one of the most beautiful and sort of haunting game locations in any game that I've ever played. And obviously Dark Souls really made its mark in terms of its atmosphere, world design and and the lore and and sort of that really haunting and isolating sort of vibe that you get from exploring that world. And like this this sort of abandoned ornate city at the center of it is just so striking and just has left like a lasting imprint in my mind. And this this boss battle sort of the cherry on top of that. Yeah I mean I guess every game by you know that studio has a skill check boss right? ...