“Update’s ready,” crackled the voice of Quince, her gruff Gek contact, through a staticky comm channel. “The Echoes patch. 5.2. Full version. Not a beta, not a partial. The real thing.”

She didn’t fight it. Instead, she ejected the old game card from her Switch—a dusty copy of The Legend of Zelda —and slammed in the blank, full-update XCI. The console screen blinked.