• Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Oh well, end of an era. If it actually go through, we won’t have good souls games anymore from them.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s not just what’s at stake. Kadokawa is a massive company and this will hurt industries from books to anime to game development outside of fromsoft. On the publishing and consumer facing sides, btw. Apparently they even own a few scientific and tourism endeavors!

      This is the end of an era the way the dark ages were, not the way the end of CGDCT in favor of isekai was

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          6 hours ago

          This could unironically be a dark age for Japanese culture, if our experience with sony in Western circles is indicative of anything