Remember the last Hellblade 2 trailer? It had a really big guy in it. He sort of looked like a zombie except he could talk.

Big Guy isn’t in the latest Hellblade 2 trailer, which Microsoft debuted during its Xbox Games Showcase today. And, honestly, I’m bummed out. What was his deal? Where was he going? Why did he need help? These are the sort of questions the people have been asking since he crawled out of his cave in 2021.

In today’s trailer, Senua is trapped in her own cave. As she approaches a pool in the middle of it, the voices in her head bounce around until the walls start twisting into shapes. The uneasy camera work from the first game returns and moves closer to her as she talks back to a voice that sticks out from the rest: “I know you.”

It’s never made clear who the voice is, and unfortunately I’m pretty sure it’s not Big Guy. Whoever it is, they want Senua to find something by reaching into the pool. When she finally does press her hands into the water…

While NPCs getting bodied in the middle of a chat with your Starfield character is plenty funny, I’ve a far less slapstick thing to be afraid of now. While this hasn’t happened to me yet, now I know it’s only a matter of time. After all, once is chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

The first incident comes from Starfield Reddit user welshscott5, who had an unwelcome visitor lean into view mid-sentence, then drift back into the ether with a look of raw disappointment. Starfield’s NPC expressions can sometimes be uncanny, which makes the surprisingly true-to-life disdain on display here all the more hilarious. Maybe they stole his space sweetroll or something.

I was casually talking to an NPC when this happened, spent about 5 minutes in uncontrollable laughter from r/Starfield

Then there’s this moment from ArduousAttempt, where Cora turns from likeable space-tyke to hallway girl from The Shin…