another realisation about saiyuki: this is probably what prepared me for getting into borderlands isnt it?
no wait, you have to explain this. I am genuinely interested. 🙂Â
I’m sorry if this is disappointing cause it’s just me going ‘idk they feel similar’ :)(also don’t know how much you know about borderlands)
I think specifically the world they are in feels similar in certain ways and the tone of the two things feels vaguely congruent. Both settings have that like schizo tech crapsake world kind of quality and/or both involve quite a lot of killing people in desert/wasteland setting – the ascetic is similar as well as the qualities of the world. The first borderlands game particularly has that traveling and coming across settlements who need protection/power/various things thing going on.
They’ve also both got this half of its kinda of ridiculous and over the top and half of its really intense and sad quality
Idk that probably doesn’t make a lot of sense. I feel like a game of saiyuki in the style of borderlands (though probably not an fps) would work pretty well though.