On a side note, I’m particularly annoyed that they lied about not having to kill any dogs except by choice. They intentionally made a misery simulator; why lie about that little detail? The misleading marketing is really baffling to me.

I cancelled my pre-order after I read the Kotaku and Polygon reviews. They confirmed for me that the leaks were true (which was already obvious of course) and that “context” was only going to make the over the top brutality even more pointless. Thank you guys for actually taking a critical look at the game.

I’m actually extremely disappointed that Cloud’s highest tier dress isn’t Lightning’s Midnight Mauve dress with a pink wig. His highest tier dress actually looks pretty crap. 

This is beautiful.

No games are going to look like this.

LOL even in their tech demo she had to squeeze through a tight space to buy time for rendering.

Nice. If we have to deal with hyper-jingoistic garbage like Call of Duty every year, we can surely have a few outright leftist titles here and there.

Things are always going to be a matter of diminishing returns. I think current gen hit a really nice sweet spot where we’ve finally seen a lot of features that do a TON of the legwork in terms of getting an image to look really pretty, no matter what comparison you’re running. We’ve got all the global illumination,…

It’s really pretty but if this is the difference between 6 teraflops with 12 teraflops,

Yeah weird, it is almost like the Remake isn't a 1:1 copy of the original game and everyone has already known that for months now or something. 

Finished reading and sort of instinctively scrolled down to leave a comment, but I’m not sure why. I can’t think of much to say.

*spoilers*

As someone that played the original I actually had a small hope that they might avert the plate collapse at this point. It was becoming very clear that Aerith somehow knew what was going to happen before it did and I genuinely hoped she might have a chance to stop it. Alas she couldn’t risk trying for fear…

He’s doing a barrel roll in a better place.

Well first of all, I warned you not to scroll down here! Tons of people in Europe and Australia have been playing the game for over a week and some have even asked me to give them a place on Kotaku to talk about the ending, which is worthy of discussion. So here is that place.

Heretic.

You’re safe to keep reading tbh

On the plus side, hearing more Red XIII is nice. That is one buttery voice.

Yeah but people that want to level multiple jobs will appreciate it happening faster. 

Wow, even my landlord sent out an email saying not only is rent still due, but if anyone needs help paying it he gave us links to those fuckin’ loan shark companies so his tenants can get screwed even harder.

Had this been a regular purchase game, I definitely would have picked it up. However, I will not get sucked down that Brave Exvius hole again

The ironic thing is, if I had to label myself, I’d say I’m pretty SJW. I understand the sentiment, but I also understand that Blizzard has had plans laid out for this game for years and they’re not just gonna upend that.

All the characters have backstory. Their place of origin and ethnicity generally ties pretty…