Saros is More Bullet Heaven Than Bullet Hell

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Saros is the continuation of decades of bullet-dodging action games from Housemarque. But it has most in common with the team’s previous game, Returnal. Is this game welcoming enough to bring newcomers into the pseudo-series? We find out! Plus, a humongous collection of other stuff we’re playing and watching, including a Korean reality TV series that pits different types of spirit mediums against one another! Look, we’re just as surprised, confused, and delighted as you are.

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0:00.0	The other day was May the 4th, you know, Star Wars Day.
0:03.3	Yes.
0:03.6	So I thought I would go and celebrate.
0:05.7	Now I'd go to Disneyland because the people are going to be dressed up. It's a day that you can actually, as an adult, dress up in Disneyland. There's going to be some, you know, Kylo's there. There's going to be some Darth Vader's, right? Oh, you can actually dress up. You don't need the color block or anything like that. you could just dress up as the characters.
0:19.7	You can fully dress up.
0:21.5	I'm talking about helmets.
0:23.9	Can I see stitch? Like cast characters. I think you have to be a Star Wars guy, right? You can't just show up dressed as... That was my problem, right? So I'm like, oh yeah, okay, like Kylo, I get it.
0:40.6	Rinn, who is Kyle? Same person.
0:50.0	Yeah, same person. I get it. So I'm walking around. And out of nowhere, I see a full on predator.
0:56.3	Awesome. The most elaborate predator costume I have ever seen.
0:57.8	Fuck, you're all right, man. Any of the Star Wars characters, I mean, this looks like it was going to bite my face clean.
1:02.8	I love it.
1:03.9	They have the face tentacles and all that shit, man.
1:07.3	To be fair, he doesn't bite faces.
1:08.6	He does steal skulls.
1:10.1	So we need to be very clear.
1:11.0	He takes a whole spine out.
1:12.2	He's creditor's crazy, man.
1:14.7	But where do you draw the line?
1:17.9	You know?
1:18.9	Sure.
1:19.2	Because, like, is this the new world?
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