{"id":235196,"date":"2026-06-24T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235196"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:57:12","slug":"i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=235196","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t love Returnal, but Saros is one of my favourite PS5 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really wanted to love\u00a0Returnal. After all, Housemarque\u2019s 2021 sci-fi third-person shooter is, by all accounts, a great game. It effectively translates the Finnish developer\u2019s signature riff on arcade-style classic \u201cbullet hell\u201d gameplay into a fully 3D action experience and layers on a delectably spooky atmosphere and tantalizing abstract narrative about a tortured astronaut caught [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mobilesyrup.com\/2026\/04\/24\/housemarque-saros-ps5-review\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really wanted to love\u00a0Returnal. After all, Housemarque\u2019s 2021 sci-fi third-person shooter is, by all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-style"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games.jpg",2560,1439,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-1536x863.jpg",1536,863,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-2048x1151.jpg",2048,1151,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/235196-i-didnt-love-returnal-but-saros-is-one-of-my-favourite-ps5-games-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=36\" rel=\"category\">Style<\/a>","tag_info":"Style","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}