The line’s dead

On the eighteenth day of our Advent Calendar you find yourself curiously, suddenly alone.

A fog rolled through town and suddenly everyone has disappeared.

Lot of dead people clogging up the lines inGhostwire: Tokyo!

A cartoony drawing of Horace The Endless Bear, in a Santa hat and snuggled by/atop a fireplace, regarding three Christmas stockings hung above it. Each contains something from a different game that came out this year

Ghostwire: Tokyo, however, has been a shining exception.

And by shining, I of course mean eerie and rain-soaked.

I could spend hours poking around its glowing streets, strewn with the clothes of its vanished citizens.

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Theres busywork, sure, but its sufficiently spiced up by the richness of Japanese folklore.

Wait, no, hang on.

Rebecca:Ghostwire: Tokyo isn’t a scary game, but it is a spooky game.

In Ghostwire Tokyo, an umbrella-wielding Visitor guards a corrupted shrine.

It’s an important distinction.

Nor heads, even.

Best shoot them with my elementally-infused finger guns instead then.

The player uses a katashiro item to absorb the blue souls of lost people in Ghostwire Tokyo

(Spoiler: it’s ghosts.)