Square Enix's NFT game has a new trailer, but I'm more interested in its absolutely dystopian project report

pcgamer.com:

The internet might have bullied NFTs out of mainstream games(opens in new tab), but Square Enix isn't going to let a little thing like 'what players want' get in the way of its blockchain dreams. The company has released a new trailer for the upcoming Symbiogenesis, its NFT-based game that will, it threatens, feature «10,000 collectible artworks» with «real game utility».

You can find that trailer above, but don't get your hopes up. It mostly consists of shots of (what I assume to be) in-game landscapes, with pretty much no new information at all. Square Enix is way more interested in telling you about all the thousands and thousands of NFT knick-knacks you'll be able to pick up in the game than it is in actually describing what playing it will look like. So instead of speculating, let's instead focus on this unhinged slide from the game's Project Evaluation Report(opens in new tab), created by «web3 game guild» LGG.

Originally spotted by GreatCheshire(opens in new tab) on Twitter, I feel like this single slide gives a better insight into the kind of slog Symbiogenesis is going to be than any of the vaguely detailed bullet points on its website. In fairness, it was put together by a third-party rather than the company itself, but Square Enix links the report in the «Official links» section of the game's Discord, and it feels like it has more thought behind it than pretty much anything we've yet seen about Symbiogenesis' gameplay or narrative so far. 

While Square Enix promises that «the main story consisting of all 6 chapters and missions can be played to the end even without having any Character NFT,» it feels like the game's design process began with someone writing that «Revenue» box on a whiteboard and working