They got a great PR agency and a ton of codes as it seems :)
The title is a thesis, my first impression when I heard about the things Compile Heart tried with Dark Rose, that´s why I said "Compile Heart´s Masterpiece", not "A Masterpiece", implying it could be their best game till now but not a masterpiece in general. However, since all the new things turned out to be rather harmful for the game I proved this starting thesis wrong.
Hope that helps!
Well, Telltale series suffer from the exact same things (like graphics and superficial decision) since years but they never really tried to improve them, except with this series as it seems. So, it seemed like a good first conclusion.
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I´m sure Devolver has a PR department as well but they outsource pretty much everything to a PR agency. On the one hand they really seem to have a lot codes and considering how popular Devolver´s games are, a lot of sites request codes and get them. Additionally, the agency focuses a lot of their work on personalizing their press releases and adding their own cringy but fun flavour to everything they send out. Especially compared to most other professiona...