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My brother, Principal Timpanist of the Auckland Philharmonic, helped compose an original score for the game. That part still holds up for me.",[53,118,119],{},[72,120,124],{"href":121,"rel":122},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fwatch?v=hDrSy_biKRo",[123],"nofollow","Listen to the Xal's Path Soundtrack",[81,126,128],{"id":127},"story","Story",[53,130,131],{},"I did not want a mindless clicker. The narrative was built around moral relativism: the feeling that you are the hero, grinding forward to cleanse a blighted realm, until the story asks you to look again.",[53,133,134,135],{},"By the end, the twist is simple and heavy: ",[60,136,137],{},"you are not the hero.",[53,139,140],{},"That idea mattered more to me than any upgrade tree. 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