After spending 20 minutes getting my ass kicked by Gabriel V2, I have some thoughts regarding the way New Blood makes the battle flow of their games so harmonious with dying - there's no loading screen, no slow death animation, no question whether to respawn at a specific checkpoint, barely any walking back to the arena, if anything to even walk - but one crucial point that they get and almost no one dev does: don't stop the music, keep that shit going on loop, make my blood rush