Ninja Theory’s existence; trying desperately to be taken seriously only to have people make dick jokes at their expense.

And we’re getting SIX MORE FUCKING DLC CHARACTERS

Ahem: headlines like this are part of the problem. Stop it

Except Dexit didn’t want to hear that; they didn’t want to think about the human cost and instead just kept stamping their feet. Fuck ‘em

Gonna take a lot of soap

It’s not even just that, going for the Freudian “Everything is motivated by death!” thing is one of the most milquetoast statements that can be made. This show doesn’t actually do anything bold with Dracula, it just tacks some clumsy projection onto the text without bold reinvention. Like I said earlier, Castlevania…

I hate works of fiction that think they're making some profound statement but are just saying something utterly banal

So stick with Castlevania for your Dracula fix

“Vagina bones” is the crowning achievement of bad gaming commentary

Those games also didn’t have one gigantic wrinkle: the singing. Every cast member had to know how to sing, which was a big hurdle even in the Japanese version of the game

Yeah, the original “aesop” was a load of junk and going for a more basic but way less icky “learn to be confident” angle was a lot better.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about these “censorship!” tantrums it’s that it’s not never actually about censorship

just gonna say it: the localized changes were BETTER than the original version. People like to harp about Chapter 2, but considering that was clearly a naked attempt to shove in titillation (of a HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT) instead of actually making a theme, then changing things to “girls learns confidence” was better for…

This game got so much unfair flack from butthurt edgelords mad it wasn’t some gritfest they think Shin Megami Tensei is as well as the more toxic parts of the Fire Emblem fandom who still haven’t gotten over the direction-change from Awakening-onward. It’s just a fun romp that does what it feels like.

If by “in droves” you means “a handful of people that dipshit GGers cherrypicked because they’re dickheads like that”

This game is such goofy, campy fun, it’s like Nintendo’s version of Sakura Wars. Really hope Nintendo and Atlus do a followup at some point

Yes, it’s an entirely unique thing. They basically took two disparate franchises and made something new out of it

To be honest, save for Heppe, I feel a lot of the criticism toward Other M was NOT feminist in nature. It’s a bit difficult to see good faith coming from cesspools like 4Chan (seriously, they hate the game to this day) and comments amounting to “why is she a crybaby!?” Those kinds of attitudes were actually in the…

Yeah, that was kind of the whole point of Avalanche; resistance fighters are a staple in RPG stories, but VII decided “But what if we made them actual terrorists who were a lot more morally complex?” It’s that extra twist that really brings VII alive, basically deconstructing the “plucky resistance” to the point of…

Reason for all of the above: because it’s being made by guys like Kitase, Nomura, Nojima, and Toriyama, the same guys who started adding stuff to the game that was never needed. These are the same guys who thought Advent Children was some kind of necessary story to tell and tried to take away Sephiroth’s agency in his…