This is very tough territory for all involved. I was hired to replace Michael Beattie as Mordin Solus in “Mass Effect 3.” I had never played the game, so I didn’t even know I was replacing someone. I found out when I showed up to the session. My agents had sent me the audition, referring to it as an “alien scientist,”…

That’s why there’s more to the story than just one side. You don’t “cheap out” when you go with Jennifer Hale. Her resume is massive. She’s more experienced. She’d cost much more.

I appreciate this as a good bit of writing. But with respect:

I consider myself an LGBTQ ally whenever I can be and I suffer from a serious chronic illness that I have to take rough medications for but...even I think this is a little much. It seems kinda desperate to passively insult Matroid Dread for no reason, for one thing. And while I’m thrilled that we’re seeing more trans…

It’s interesting that for years, indi devs have been trying to recreate Smash Bros success by focusing on mechanics and nobody gave a crap. Then they finally got the idea to make them crossover fighters with a bunch a popular characters and that’s when people finally started to really take notice.

I mean, are you even really playing Metroid if you don’t try to bomb/missile random walls all the time looking for secrets? That’s how I’ve played it since Metroid II, lol

It’s actually pretty obvious which blocks to shoot. I’ve gotten about halfway through the game, and I got stuck for a bit once or twice, but it was never because I couldn’t figure out which walls were breakable. It’s telegraphed super clearly, at least from the point of view from somebody who has played Zero Mission…

Is forcing you to explore bad game design?

Throughout all of Metroid Prime 2, Samus doesn’t ask the Luminoth any questions. At the end, when they’re all bowing in respect to her, she just walks to her ship and waves almost nonchalantly over her shoulder as she leaves. In Metroid Prime 3, she lingers at seeing the Aurora Unit, the ghost of Mother Brain, but…

|“Simply put, Samus rules. That said, playing Metroid Dread made me wonder if she might rule just a little more if Nintendo saw fit to expand her personality past “stoic, silent, one-woman army.”|

I don’t think she was emotionless in dread, but also I am extremely tired of the “woman must be defined by her trauma” trope. Yoshio Sakamoto is a textbook misogynist and pretty much all the good story/theme ideas in this series were done by other people, from Gunpey Yokoi to Retro Studios to now MercurySteam.

This seems less of a complaint about Samus showing emotion, and more about Samus showing vulnerability. 

That scream at the end of the final boss fight had more character than every line of dialogue in Other M combined.

You and I must have played very different game.

Shutting down is also an emotional reaction.

I find it somewhat baffling that you’d expect Samus to be warm toward a Chozo that she encounters on a hostile planet, upon landing on which she was immediately attacked by another Chozo. Cold apprehension and distrust is a personality trait, and one that is naturally called for in the circumstances Samus finds…

Smash Bros. fans really have mastered the art of finding ways to complain even when they receive something spectacular. It’s honestly impressive. 

Without Nintendo solo-backing these games, these games don’t exist. Everyone at Microsoft and Sony rejected the games but Nintendo believed in them and fully financed them. I say, given that, that it’s fair for Nintendo to claim sole profits. And that it’s fair for Microsoft and Sony to never see a penny from these…

Anyone complaining to Platinum about this doesn’t really care about Bayonetta.

It’s so sad that there are still people out there who haven’t gotten over this. With Nintendo Bayo 2 and 3 wouldn’t even exist. Just buy a Switch if you want to play them so badly. The same is true for games like Bloodborne and Demon’s Souls on PS.