Gotta be honest, I do not care half an iota about the story in these

The story is always fairly intricate, the world is always beautifully strange, and the environmental storytelling is great

But I'm not reading a bunch of wiki articles to piece it all together, nor am I watching some self indulgent youtuber have a 3 hour theory session

I'm here to have a pleasant journey thru said world, marked by a bunch of satisfying fights with bosses the size of a house, not trying to wax poetic about the sad, 250 year backstory of said bosses