Overthinking Games: an armful of surprises in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

This is the last entry in Overthinking Games, a column that gave Malindy Hetfeld room to take something about a game and think about it too much. Today, she’s looked at how realistic the prosthetic in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is.

While I was playing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, I thought out loud, Man, do I have a lot of questions about surgery in feudal Japan. Less about how you operate on a man so that he wakes up and suddenly finds himself with a prosthetic, having remained peacefully unconscious throughout the entire procedure, and more about how feasible the shinobi prosthetic in Sekiro really is. Thankfully I have a place to ponder all these questions.
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