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Del Toro Plays Dead Cells and Can't Make Up His Mind
Guillermo del Toro confessed in an IGN interview that he has a complicated relationship with Dead Cells: he loves the game, but Motion Twin's roguelike also drives him crazy. A light anecdote on the surface, revealing underneath: when one of Hollywood's most gaming-friendly filmmakers talks about a French indie game with this intensity, it says something about Dead Cells' place in gaming culture six years after its release.
Dead Cells at 8: The Strange Legacy of a Bordeaux Cooperative
On August 7, 2018, Motion Twin released Dead Cells in version 1.0 after a remarkable early access period. Eight years later, the Bordeaux roguelite remains a genre reference, cited alongside Hades and Risk of Rain 2 as a foundational pillar of a decade. But behind the finely-tuned game loop lies a question that has never truly been answered: how did a radically horizontal structure, without a project manager, produce one of the genre's most mechanically oppressive systems?