Post Script
A ’lite for attracting attention
Two bonfire equivalents exist: lodestones (pictured here) and campfires, around which your growing squad gathers
When Flintlock made its appearance in June’s Xbox Games Showcase, we were, of course, already well acquainted, the game having graced E370’s cover back in 2022. But one word, spelled out in bungalow-sized capitals on the auditorium screen in LA, caught our eye precisely because it hadn’t come up in that conversation two years earlier: “SOULS-LITE”. Of course, this is a marketing line – as with any genre label, ultimately. But given we’ve seen the term repeated in practically every piece of writing about the game since, if nothing else it’s effective. What exactly does it mean?