Very sad to see this go. I've enjoyed reading these from the start, and have actually gotten a lot of pleasure out of rereading them—it's the kind of smart, focused, and distinct writing about art that never really gets old. Thanks, Mike. It's been a pleasure.

I mean, I have a Wii U. I just don't know how much shittier it plays on a Wii U.

I kinda got that vibe, yeah.

I actually thought that was a great choice—it makes Julia more of a major character from the start, and, okay, here are some spoilers: Much as I dig the first two books, there's something uncomfortably similar about the functions Alice and Julia play in each, reducing them at worst to "Hey look, it's a potential love…

Not sure I have the time right now, but that's good to know. Thanks!

Nothing wrong with that.

I think the stances are really only as difficult as you want them to be. Admittedly I'm still pretty early in the game (the first major boss is… fun), but I've been sticking to Low most of the time and haven't had any problems at all. Basically if you want to try a different stance to get some more damage in, you can,…

It changed; we'll be covering the full season.

Whole season.

I've died often enough that the game keeps reminding me I can "change the difficulty setting at any time." Fuck you, game, _I'm_ not the one with the problem here.

Well, until the Gamelogical review is up, this is a good summary: http://kotaku.com/nioh-is-b…

Well, it could also be that I'm just not that great at FPSes. (FPSs?) But after getting through most of the game without too much trouble, I'm struggling—I think part of the problem is that it drops a lot of the stealth stuff in the area I'm in, and you end up just having to plow through waves of dudes.

Finished Resident Evil 7 a couple weeks ago, really enjoyed it (and agree with Matt's critique of the ending). This week I've been messing about with Wolfenstein The New Order, a game I love about three-quarters of, right up until the difficulty goes from "challenging" to "die a dozen times in a single room with no…

I played through nearly everything recently, and after being a moderate BI defender, it fell apart for me on the second time around—I didn't hate the gameplay, but the storytelling goes from potentially interesting to absolute nonsense, a sort of "Okay, we don't really have anything to say here so let's just say…

I don't think it's the first time (off the top of my head, we brought X-Files classic reviews because people kept asking for 'em), but I'm delighted that you pulled it off.

Probably an A or A-? I didn't watch them as closely when I was getting caught up for reviews, but they were both strong.

God, I still remember buying the LJN X-Men at the store and being so excited to play it—and the horrible "no, I must be doing this wrong, this is supposed to be fun" feeling that lingered for hours. (As a bonus, you had to have two characters in play at once, and the AI was, if possible, worse than the controls. God,…

Yeah, I actually like the Sin City comic books (at least, I used to), but I never much cared for the "cinematic innovations" of the movie. It just looked dopey.

Oh that's stupid.

The thing is, while I like the idea of trying it a different way I'm still not sure I'll be able to not pick Mia. I get that Ethan isn't well-developed, I get that their relationship isn't much of anything, but it just makes no character sense at all to pick Zoe. But I still felt like shit after picking Mia.