Why Blue Prince is 2025’s Highest Rated Game So Far - Beyond 891

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4.4 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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We’ve got a jam-packed episode this week! First order of business, Blue Prince just dropped and it’s currently the best-reviewed game of the year so far, so what’s the big deal? We invited IGN’s executive reviews editor and Blue Prince reviewer Tom Marks to discuss the many brilliant things this roguelite first-person puzzle game does right, and the handful of nitpicks that keep it from being a totally smooth experience. But fans of The Witness, Return of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds will likely find something here to love. One thing we don’t love is the announcement of a very Bloodborne-coded FromSoftware game that’s not a Bloodborne sequel or even coming to PlayStation. The Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive multiplayer game The Duskbloods looks cool, but with a lot of caveats. Bloodborne turned 10 a couple weeks ago, so we’re celebrating the milestone with a return to Yarnham in this month’s Beyond Game Club. Also in this episode, Jada and Akeem sat down with performance-capture actor and stuntman Eric Jacobus to talk about what it’s like bringing some of gaming’s most brutal actions to live, from punching like Kratos to performing Fatalities in Mortal Kombat without anyone getting hurt, Eric had a ton of insight. This week’s show is Max Scoville, Tom Marks, Jada Griffin, Akeem Lawanson, and is produced by Nick Maillet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	NextGen Console Watch is the IGen show discussing the latest gaming hardware, whether it's the PS5 Pro, Nintendo Switch 2, or something new from Xbox. It's all fair game, a next gen console watch.
0:12.4	Hosted by myself, Damon Hatfield, a 20-year Igin veteran. I am joined by my co-hosts, Ryan McCaffrey, host of IJN's Xbox Podcast, Podcasts Unlocked, and Max Scoville,
0:24.6	host of IGIN's PlayStation Podcasts, Podcasts Beyond. I will try to keep these console war discussions civil, but no promises. Listen to NextGen Console Watch on Apple Podcasts,
0:29.4	Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts, new episodes every Friday.
0:46.0	I wouldn't blame anybody who's listening to me right now going, I have literally never heard of this game, and you just gave it a nine.
0:56.4	And not only did we just give it a nine, currently it is the highest reviewed game, highest scored game on OpenCritic and Metacritic of 2025, above split fiction, Kingdom Home Deliverance 2, Monster Her Wilds, everything. It is at a 91 on Open Critic
1:02.1	right now. Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show. I'm your host,
1:06.6	Max Scobel. Coming up, we are talking about one of the best reviewed games of 2025,
1:10.5	the indie puzzle roguelite blueprints, and we talking about one of the best reviewed games of 2025, the indie puzzle
1:11.3	roguelite blueprints, and we're going to be lamenting the announcement of a new spooky Gothic
1:15.9	FromSoft game that is not Bloodborn to or even coming to PlayStation. And we're going to chat with
1:20.6	Eric Jacobus, Stuntman extraordinaire, who is the mocap actor behind some of the most brutal video games
1:25.8	around. So let's get into it.
1:28.3	Hey everybody, here we are.
1:39.3	I'm joined once again by Jada Griffin and very special guest Tom Marks, joining us to talk about a game you just reviewed. together, but it's always good to catch up.
2:02.8	Jada, I've been in distant orbits traveling a whole bunch.
2:04.7	Thank you so much for holding down the fort while I was away.
2:05.7	I very much appreciate that.
2:07.1	You've been, you've been busy, too.
2:09.8	We actually have a kind of a special interview segment coming up.
2:11.0	You want to tease that real quick?
2:17.9	Yeah. If you've played video games, I mean, crazy things, somebody who watched PlayStation podcast plays video games.
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