Dynasty Warriors 15 will take place in modern day china and have no actual conflict or weapons you are just some guy living in like guangzhou or something scrolling thru douyin and occasionally there are cutscene triggers like when you get to the train station
There's something fascinating about how the advent of AI tooling has simultaneously enabled and culled out the creatively bankrupt who have made entire careers larping as artists.
Aside from the obviously AI-generated cover art and suspiciously familiar album title, there is nothing "hyperviolent" here. This is exactly why we have, time and time again, advocated for "violent art".
For a while now, there has been a trend among our peers toward incorporating dated pop production, recycling uninspired djent riffing, and incredibly vapid, lacking-in-any-chromaticism melodic chord progressions. In seemingly every other genre – including specific subgenres of alternative music – creative evolution seems to reflect the milieu. Now, for whatever reason, this has not been the case among the metalcore-Redditor-basement-djent-white-bread-SiriusXMcore crowd, who might be allergic to innovation – even preferring cheap nostalgia bait over anything dangerous enough to skirt the edge. Case in point: the soi-disant "Hyperpop-Metal" tag when the pioneers of hyperpop themselves have proclaimed it dead for years.
There is a reason the recently disaffected have found more solace in communities and styles of art/music outside of this strangely primitive and pedestrian scene. When the dissidents and estranged seek out their place in this world, what exactly is this supposed to be an alternative to? This defanged, neutered, and lobotomized slop is the consequence of years of propping up uninteresting people with absolutely nothing compelling to say. We need art – dangerous, chaotic, intentional, unafraid, antisocial, violent art.