I’d say Batman killed the Joker at the end of that film. He could’ve let him go, but instead decided to anchor his leg to that gargoyle. And either that gargoyle stays put and yanks the Joker back, slamming him into the side of the cathedral, or it somehow comes loose and causes him to plummet to his death.

100%, the irony in a series of articles that had the effect of casting aspersions on Hale by another VA, its hilarious that Kotaku doesn’t reference one of the (only) well-respected journalists that emerged from the old days of Kotaku.

Schreier’s exposés while he was here are probably responsible for more instances of Kotaku being cited as a source by other games news outlets than every other Kotaku post combined.

You mean her stating that she’s an advocate for better pay and her record speaks for itself (which implicated the initial pay claims), that the game is a product of many people and to be respectful?

So that 4k number is per session, not the overall number, which I haven't seen Kotaku mention. That dramatically changes the context! It sounds like 4k per session is not only fair but generous. 

For context, it was discovered that Taylor was offered $4k per recording session over 4-5 sessions. A VA recording session is typically 3-4 hours long so she was offered $1000 per hour of work which would end up being $16-20k total. Taylor said no to this, asking for over $100k total for their work and a percentage of…

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I wish I had a bit more context on this. I understand that $4000 is insultingly small, but what is a good number? I have no idea how much voice actors make. 

Especially that article only listed as “Update” on the boycott article.

Not putting the recent information uncovered by Bloomberg (which was referenced on Kotaku in an updated previous article) where it was proven that she was offered 4k PER session for 4+ sessions is pretty disingenuous.

There’s nothing to wait for.

No, they’re not. The most recent development is Taylor was offered a recording job of no less than 4 sessions at 4k dollars a piece.  She countered by asking over 25k per session.  That’s when Platinum sought someone else for the job.  

But if she KNEW about all of this before being hired, and still took the job anyway? Then she’s a scab, and rough treatment comes with the territory.

Guilty of what?

I don’t have much of a stake in this as I’ve never been much of a Bayonetta fan either way, but from what I’ve been seeing online the original voice actor’s side of the story doesn’t seem entirely on the up-and-up.

MetaCritic/OpenCritic will give you a larger sample of reviews to base your decision on. The problem with articles like this is that they tend to skew towards whatever reviews validate the writer’s own opinion. On Metacritic, there are 20 reviews that give the game an 80%+. None of those are included in this article.

The part that annoys me is that you have to go digging through the comments here to find a remark from a staffer that they didn’t review it, because they weren’t sent a copy. That should be somewhere in the actual article, then. Or hell, just run the A.V. Club review here as well.

It’s kind of funny that the sister site that covers TV and Movies got a code but not this one. 😂

This article adds nothing to the discussion on this game, and if people keep seeing this kind of thing on Kotaku, they'll turn away to other sites. Or works be more helpful to wait and do a real review, even if it's a month late. If that's not worth this site's time, then there's a bigger underlying problem.

That makes a lot of sense, but perhaps in the future it might be good to include in the article?