Comparing Redfall's Island to Deathloop's

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There's something about playing a game set on an island. The knowledge that the island's shores are the limit of the playspace offers a certain comfort that games with more invisible borders don't offer. From liberating the island of Tsushima from Mongol occupation in Ghost of Tsushima to developing an island community in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the island life is pretty irresistible.

It makes sense, then, that the upcoming Redfall is the second Arkane game in a row to take place entirely on an island, after Deathloop's Isle of Blackreef. Players died and died again trying to break the loop of Blackreef, and soon they'll link up with friends (or go it alone) to hunt down vampires in Redfall. Deathloop and Redfall's islands share some similarities, but they also differ quite obviously in a few ways.

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For one, the weather and climate differs greatly between the two. Deathloop's Blackreef sits somewhere in the polar sea, and this is made most clear by the blizzard that hits the island in the afternoon portion of the loop. NPCs are always complaining about how they're going to be freezing for eternity. On the other hand, Redfall is an island town in Massachusetts. The game appears to take place during autumn, as evidenced by the red, orange, and yellow leaves on trees, so no parkas are necessary.

Perhaps the most glaring difference between the two is that Redfall is not stuck in a timeloop as far as fans know. Deathloop's core mechanic is that Colt cannot leave Blackreef until he's killed all the Visionaries, breaking the loop. The most recent trailer for the game establishes that the four main characters in Redfall are similarly trapped