Games Inbox: Post-Elden Ring depression, Xbox Series X in Japan, and Fall Guys longevity

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The Friday letters page gets excited about some recently revealed Shenmue secrets, as one reader recommends Reggie Fils-Aime’s new book.

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Everything ends A number of people have been talking lately about coming to the end of Elden Ring and I find myself in a similar position. I’ve already beaten the story and seen and done everything to the best of my abilities. I’m contemplating starting a New Game+ but while I’m sure I’ll enjoy that, the magic of seeing everything new for the first time will not be there and that’s making me quite upset.

I think I’m in a kind of post-Elden Ring depression where I know nothing else out there is going to match up to it and yet the thought of playing through it again is doomed to have an ever decreasing impact. I’m not really that sad, I’m happy in a way, grateful, to have played such an amazing game (and to have actually beaten it, given how hard it is).

I can’t help thinking of those people that after having seeing Avatar got depressed because they couldn’t live in its world and had to go back to mundane reality. I laughed at that when I first heard but now I understand what they mean. When a fictional world is so well realised and as imaginative as this you can’t help but feel the loss when you leave it. I can only hope the DLC is as inevitable as everyone thinks and comes out sooner rather than later.Tamon

Insider secrets I’ve been reading Nintendo’s former COO of America, Reggie Fils-Aime’s book Disrupting the Game and I have to say so far I’m enjoying it.

It has some fairly interesting insights into Japanese culture and how Nintendo of Japan expects its employees to conduct themselves. It also has some very interesting