And so it’s off to tame all the Sorrows, with every run being an attempt to escape burnout. Death has now been literally worn down, little more than figurehead, until burnout finally starts to set in. Unfortunately, the Sorrows started to care only about harvesting as many souls as possible in order to gain maximum profit, and poor Death was left having to file the paperwork for every soul reaped…which is lot. The premise of the game is that a long time ago Death started up his company in order to make things easier, creating the Sorrows in order to assist him. The game sees you playing as Death themselves, taking up their scythe in order to reclaim their company of Death Inc., leading to a ton of satisfying slash-’em-up action so far. In contrast, Have a Nice Death, the new action-platformer from Magic Design Studios, is all about the idea of death and the afterlife as a workplace, not unlike, say, the afterlife in Beetlejuice. But the story there was more about the nature of death and its role in life, and the office setting was more of a jumping-off point and a hub level. Last year saw the release of Death’s Door, an amazing action-adventure game about a lone crow working for a bureaucratic department tasked with having to retrieve one lost soul in order to complete their job.

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