I think a lot of companies end up doing that where they can - generally just with more minor characters, though! - it’s just that most companies aren’t suddenly put in the spotlight to this extent. (Some have fewer problems, many have probably just kept their problems hidden better, and even in other cases it’s only…

While we’re sounding off about Knuckles song covers in the comments, lemme drop my favorite.

A little disappointing that Detective Pikachu was probably the closest we'll get to SCPokémon, but it did rule.

I remember this being a white whale of sorts, as fan translations go?

and Joshua Rivera, who's mostly gone all in on TV and movies instead of video games now, but continues to write good!

I think a notable thing here is all the people trying to reclaim “queer” - the acronyms can get long-winded, the categories can get blurry, so it is nice having a word that in theory covers everything. So plenty of people self-identify as queer.

I fear we are simply not horny enough to carry the torch, but I’ll try.

LET ME BUY A DOZEN MORE F-ZERO TRACKS, YOU COWARDS

I downloaded the Miitopia demo... and haven’t even tried it yet. I think I can see the appeal, just got caught up in Dragon Quest Builders 2 and then Neo TWEWY after some very good demos, so... haven’t bothered. Maybe if it ever goes on sale?

The one thing Mario Kart Wii still has going for it is that it was easy as heck to mod your Wii and get tons of custom tracks (admittedly, of varying quality. But still, plenty that were quite good!)

Wish it’d gotten more updates befitting its status already; at this point, I think it’s too late for much to drag people back in, or create many new sales. Still, I can’t say I didn’t get my money’s worth out of it.

Problem is, we really need to make society less car-dependent before we can really get stricter on giving out car privileges.

IMO, the coolest thing scrapped from some of the Kingdom Hearts concepts - that could’ve had an actual chance of making it in - is Sora with a tail.

to subject these people, these career professionals to a sort of public humiliation and opprobrium and then the potential of a congressional investigation

And I assume less of a genes thing, more of a “oh god they are not gonna give any potential children a healthy upbringing, and if they don’t manage to kill their kids, they’re gonna be exposed to extreme fringe beliefs their whole childhood and it’s gonna be hell trying to escape that when they grow up”

Gotta imagine it’s 90% people just joining for the emotes or something, right?

Whereas the class before the upgrade, Marauder, is two smaller axes for... some reason?

Come on, everyone knows Greek and Norse are the only two mythologies!

I did feel like there was a little context missing I was glad to see, and the theater mode isn’t organized super well (it’s by world, which makes sense, and in theory would let you just binge through the main plot stuff instead of any of the mostly-retread-y Disney worlds... except with how the story kept going back…

Yeah, it feels like mobile games are some of the worst for preservation. Certainly, there’s all the online components squeezed in for monetization (and I do have to wonder if some companies are pulling games due to worry about the monetization being more closely scrutinized?)... and events to keep them fresh, for more…