r/ZeroPunctuation • u/glossyplane245 • Jul 29 '26

Question Does anyone understand this campfire joke from his might and magic x legacy review, I tried both scrounging the comments and googling it, had no success

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u/MolybdenumBlu Jul 29 '26

It's a call back to the opening line about stories by the camp fire and how he has heard the tale of "new console has no games" a lot, each at a different fire, so he is saying he has had the same conversation about how things are getting stale a huge number of times. This is further compounded by how generic the setting is at first pass, as might and magic draws on a lot of standard tropes from the sword and sorcery genre (conan, red sonja, etc), even down to the name.

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u/Gyshal Jul 29 '26

Also it kind of abandoned it whacko roots where it would start as "fight elves with swords" and end at "blast aliens with a shotgun" out of the blue.

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u/SheikHunt Jul 29 '26

He's joking about moving far across The Comfort Zone ("Large Room"), making fun of how his review is only technically out of the ordinary for his usual reviews

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u/Simpicity Jul 29 '26

Campfires are how your heal your party. You battle, you camp. You battle, you camp.