No both sides shit here. Kick is a shithole and exists for no reason other than to exploit people.

It’s a slow-paced artsy walking simulator centered around a rather heavy-handed social message.

Look peasants! The millionaires are arguing with each other!

I mean, if you haven’t already, I recommend playing through FFIV: The After Years. That game certainly had some uh... interesting implications for the entire FF series.

There’s a spectrum when it comes to Final Fantasy.

To this day, I still think one of the biggest injustices to ever occur to video games was Alphadream making like 10 Mario & Luigi games and never doing a “Wario & Waluigi” spin-off.

Well, I imagine if you looked at the time it would take to have a human artist create something like that and the amount it would cost to hire them to do so, and compared it to the time and cost of having the AI generate it, you probably wouldn’t be terribly surprised why they went with the AI on this one.

As soon as a machine can do something we used to think only humans could do, even passably well, the humans doing it become obsolete to the bigger picture. They might do it better, but they also do it slower and more expensively.

I still like to follow the D2 story despite not playing the game anymore and honestly its starting to feel like a hilarious bit of tonal dissonance wherein I’m anticipating these periodic cool sci-fi moments and lore drops from a thing that- most of the time- exists as a banal digital chore.

I’d point out the usual VERY NOTABLE EXCLUSION from this Mario game, but frankly even I’m willing to admit that the world is probably not ready for Elephant Waluigi.

Mario Wonder and Warioware (of course) really encapsulate that wacky, experimental, just fucking WEIRD side of Nintendo that’s made me a lifelong fan of their work so I’m happy to see that side of them alive and well after the last few years of bland, sterile Mario stuff.

It’s the human aspect of it. Sure, you can play a game anytime, but isn’t it more fun to play a game when you have a friend on the couch reacting to things that happen in the game alongside you?

Ruffles sold more bags of chips last year than the guys at your local steakhouse sold three course meals.

I don’t miss those nights (that was our exact night time process for about 7/8 months) but Dragon Quest XI certainly made them a bit easier.

Sounds like they need to start putting all those fancy art cards into separate “Collector’s Boosters” that cost three times as much as the regular ones.

I can’t diagree with anything you’ve said. I love No More Heroes but 3 was definitely disappointing for me. I don’t like to throw around the word “rushed” but it certainly felt like they padded it out with a lot more repetitive bs than usual.

Nintendo has (in)famously preferred to stay as neutral as possible when it comes to any kind of contentious social issue. They will not overtly take either side or openly promote material that seems to promote or support any particular stance so as to not potentially alienate even a single paying customer.

“I used to be ‘with it.’ But then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!”

13 dollarydoos is a pretty sweet deal for the game I personally considered the GOTY runner-up to Elden Ring last year. (Inscryption).

This. I love No More Heroes but it’s a cool evening or two at best. You’re getting an awful lot more game for only 6 more dollars if you go with something like Persona 5 instead.