Sopra

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Have you considered playing the cult classic action roguelite JRPG Baroque, for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation, by Sting Entertainment?

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The clear screen for Beatmania IIDX's DP 7th Dan course, a series of four hard songs for the double play mode.
A screenshot of my own words from a discord server, saying the following: Absolutely baffling series of audiovisual experiences, that sure was. The first half (which is to say, every mandatory level except for the final one) was a very sensical (if irony-poisoned) depiction of futuristic biopunk wetwork that is deeply entrenched in economic satire and tongue-in-cheek analysis. The final level and everything beyond it is a giant weird analogy for ? the meaning of life and death ? I guess ? Or an introspection on what it means to be... working, or attempting to achieve success in life. But because that's how the game closes its presentation, it completely robbed me of any sort of narrative closure for the first half of it. And because it's so metaphorical in its presentation of everything beyond that, it doesn't provide any closure for the second half either. As someone who enjoys being confused, I think this is for the best, and heightened my enjoyment by a lot. However, like. now I'm going to be thinking about it forever. Like what the fuck just happened, man. What did I just read TL;DR: I really liked it a lot, and I also have no idea what any of it meant.
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A screenshot of the discord interface that allows you to add a favorite game to your discord profile. The user has typed "baroque" into the search bar, and the app has responded "We don't have "baroque" in our database yet, but we're working on supporting more games."