It's like my head

“Darkness will destroy you” is not an especially complicated theme to convey. The entire sequence also seems inescapably taken from The Empire Strikes Back, so I don’t want to oversell the cleverness on display here. But what makes the sequence worth discussing is that most of it is conveyed through gameplay, even in this very simplified system. Your battle decisions on a strategic level also make sense thematically.”

Synthesis: Cecil’s Ordeal | Project: Ballad

Mike, he knows his games.