It at least means they can do releases at their own pace rather than feel rushed to release games to meet contractual obligations. 

Yes to all of those to some degree. It’s just ignored because people have been able to associate it with more than those war criminals before and after while people outside Japan wouldn’t give a shit about the shrine outside of the war criminals enshrined there. Arlington has soldiers who have targeted civilians and…

That’s a pretty shitty analogy. They didn’t take pics in front of war criminal statues. They went to a shrine that has millions of people enshrined there, a small but significant number of whom are war criminals. How is it that different from people visiting Arlington for Memorial Day? There are war criminals buried…

What about people being cool with people visiting Arlington on Memorial Day? War criminals are buried and honored there as well. 

“Plenty” being random voice lines. They already do that. But there’s not exactly much room for them to bring up how Soldier is gay without them being contrived about it.

I don’t agree with this. Not everyone wants everything in your face even for their own representation. Personally I like there to be more asian representation but I don’t want it to be all in your face with constant asian imagery and dragons and red dresses and shit. I’d like there to be an asian american superhero to…

I wouldn’t go so far as to say critics love it. It has 9 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 6.3. 8 positive reviews brings its RT score to seem pretty high but a positive score doesn’t mean love. It just mean they liked it enough to give it a slightly positive score. Either way, 9 reviews isn’t enough…

I don’t know about them taking no action. It’s not like they have a direct line to all media and can force them to talk about their game. Though I’m wondering if they gave codes out at all now that you bring it up. I discovered the game “on my own” by seeing it show up promoted on Steam or GOG after the full version…

What did Destiny do?

I don’t understand why people act like it’s a bad thing that it’s done through comics/shorts and not in game. Pretty much all the backstory is told through comics and shorts. Are people mad that Widowmaker’s backstory/lore is told through ancillary media? It’s hardly comparable to Rowling who reveals shit outside of…

You do realize that happy hour only exists because it’s a slow part of the day and they want to encourage people to come in during those hours? “Giving up happy hour business” implies that happy hour is an important high traffic time of day that they’d sacrifice by having children around. People go to happy hour…

It’d be nice if places did a compromise and only made the no-kids time after 6 or 7. 7 might be too late so as long as you sit down before 6 it should be okay.

I’m curious why Wotakoi wasn’t included though. I thought you loved it. 

You’re just being petty. Sites can do top 5/10 lists however they want. They don’t need to go by consensus. That’s how they do games too. It’s absurd to act like anime should be any different. I don’t agree with her opinion but this is how they always do it. Richard refused to put One Punch Man on either best of the…

Dragon Quest 11

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai seems like a pretty glaring omission. It’s not even mentioned in the honorable mentions list.

Maybe we’ll see it on your 2019 list like Hollow Knight was on Kirk’s 2018 list. Haha.

I actually thought of this last night and searched if anyone at Kotaku played it and found it on Fahey’s list. I commented on there that I thought you’d enjoy it so I’m glad you actually ended up playing it. It’s really what a modern Secret of Mana or Terranigma would look like. 

I’m glad someone gave Crosscode some recognition. It deserves it. It’s a fantastic game that was mostly overlooked by most gamers and most publications as well. Maybe if it ever gets a Switch port, it’ll actually get some attention like Hollow Knight did this year. I feel like Jason Schreier would love it. It feels…

What a shitty take. So if you get a gift do you not say thanks because you’re not legally obligated to? Come on, man. Learn something called common courtesy.