If you don’t care about spoilers, you should watch HeyZeusHeresToast’s all bosses (AGDQ2018) and any% (AGDQ2019) runs. Not only are they hilarious, but they’d probably be pretty informative. He uses a couple movement glitches and skips, but for the bosses, it’s pretty much just all execution.

My immediate thought when hearing Kirk’s music pick (“Overtime” by Knower) was that it reminded me of Persona 5's soundtrack and singer Lyn Inaizumi.  Was then funny to hear Jason say the same thing a couple of minutes later.

Diving back into a new AC: Odyssey save file after I finally decided that my previous 45 hour file was bugged and probably wouldn’t be patched to fix it (the transmog system wasn’t applying retroactively); later discovered that it is a disclosed bug by Ubisoft that has no timetable to be fixed, so no great loss I…

Is there an office betting pool going on the number of times Jason will die in Bloodborne?

To confirm, there is an option for English or Japanese audio at startup, right?

The transmog system is a pretty big draw; I’m going to be pretty bummed if it’s broken on my save file.  Nice (unfortunately) to hear it’s not an isolated incident.

I haven’t checked my file since I downloded the patch a couple of months ago, so hopefully it’s fixed itself in the meantime. Been looking forward to picking it back up with the DLC. 

Unrelated, but was the transmog system ever sorted out? I’d read it was supposed to apply retroactively, but after I’d updated my game (save file had about 45 hours on it), all of the armor options remained greyed out.

Dead Cells was an IGF 2018 Finalist/Honorable Mention, along with Celeste and Into the Breach.  Given the amount of hype and coverage all three received in 2018, none of them did particularly well at the awards other than Celeste. 

I never saw anything online about it being a widespread issue or not, but interesting to know that it was not an isolated case.

That’s a bummer, especially given the scarcity of the Wii at the time. Nice of them to just give you a new console, rather than making you wait while they repaired your broken one.

The Switch AC adapter that came with my launch console was dead out of the box, as in, it would not provide power to the console. I’d purchased a second launch Switch in the hopes that the console might some day be hacked and require original firmware, and confirmed that that AC adapter worked and would charge the…

Not going to lie, I read that as Karen Gillan at first and was intrigued about Amy Pond’s new career as a comics writer. 

I watched the first two episodes and was hooked.  Within the next 24 hours, I’d purchased and read the 8 available volumes of the manga.  If you like the anime, I’d definitely recommend checking out the manga, as there is some additional content in each volume that may or may not be adapted (it’s commentary text, so…

If you like the anime adaptation of Slime, I’d recommend checking out the manga.  The anime is a pretty faithful adaptation of the manga (not sure about the light novels), and volumes 1 through 8 already have official English translations.  Each volume of the manga also has a light novel-esque bonus chapter told from…

At what point did Mother 3 tip over into meme category? I’m sure it’s a perfectly good mid-2000s era handheld JRPG, but is it actually as good as the past twelve years and multiple “Localize Mother 3" campaigns have mythologized it into being? I’d personally prefer to see some of the earlier Fire Emblem games get…

Agree wholeheartedly. Really looking forward to the movie in 2019. Rest assured, Bunny Girl Senpai will likely show up on aniTAY’s list, but of course it’ll lack the gravitas of being on Kotaku’s official best of list. 

Disappointed Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime didn’t make the list, or even the honorable mentions. Bunny Girl Senpai seems like an especially egregious oversight given the amount of buzz and favorable comparisons to Monogatari it has generated.

I love this game and its lore, but I really dislike the competitive community. Everyone is an armchair developer and thinks they and only they know which heroes need buffs or nerfs, what new system HAS TO BE ADDED to the game because IT IS BROKEN, etc. Even the OWL pros aren’t immune to this shit. As a long time WoW…

Yeah, if you have to resort to backing up the back-up offsite, might as well just do the back-ups offsite to begin with.  Good point.