The Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope thing was sort of baffling to me. It felt like it never came out at all. I listen to a lot of games podcasts, and I don’t think I remember a single person talking about playing it? It’s wild how much it felt like it just came and went. I have no idea why. Like it wasn’t even bad or…

This isn’t skepticism, this is conspiracism. If you aren’t familiar with the game’s history, then yes, *thousands* of positive reviews pouring in the moment the game goes on Steam looks pretty hinky. But it turns out to have a pretty straightforward, public, and easily verifiable answer why it’s legitimate.

A pet peeve of mine on these games is how many have action that looks cool in a cinematic trailer but then the gameplay is just “press X to awesome” without much depth.

So I think this trailer showcasing more “regular” fights against non-superhuman enemies has hyped me more for the game than the previous ones honestly.

Sprigatito is how cat lovers see cats. Florgato is how everyone else sees cats. Meowscarada is how the people that made Cats(2019) thought cats looked like.

I always considered the Ghosts ‘N Goblins games to be 2D Dark Souls.

Yeah the pay issues may have been misrepresented here but the conversation was still a good one to have, and prompted a number of VAs to come out about how the industry has fallen short on pay for so long. I suppose there’s a chance her awfulness drives a few people away from supporting the issue but if so, they…

The idea receipts need to be thrown around to prove to bystanders is just tacky. the court of public opinion accomplishes very little here, other than ugliness and hard feelings.

Schreier’s reporting isn’t “he said”, and as a Kotaku reader who has presumably been around for longer than two years you should know how this works. Reporters like him get their info by promising confidentiality and building trust with their sources. If he burns those sources it’s a massive professional breach of…

This series has developed Pokemon syndrome where folks act like whichever FF they grew up with is the truest representation of the franchise and everything else is an unjustified departure tainting their childhood memories.

This looks so good, give me that palace intrigue plus anime kaiju nonsense

One major difference not mentioned by all the replies to your false equivalence here; Jason Schreier writes under his own name, and for a public company; if he breaks any ethical or legal boundary anyone has an issue with, they know who he is and where to find him.

A War of the Lions PC release would be so fucking cool. I tried playing the mobile version and got to like chapter 10 or 11 before throwing in the towel. The touch controls were just annoying enough to turn me off of it. 

Wild guess: This game will take place right around the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. That era offers a lot of political intrigue as well as pitched battles, gunpowder weaponry is available, and Japan was still open to European nations, so the backdrop still allows for Templers and the like to be present in such a…

Ghost of Tsushima was almost entirely rural sandbox, with only small sequences in populated areas. I would expect AC:Japan to be primarily in Edo or Kyoto, with emphasis on the parkour and architectural exploration the series’ earlier games were known for and not another Valhalla-styled sprawl.

I’ve never been especially interested in seeing an AC game set in Japan, it just doesn’t work too well, thematically. I hope that it at least takes place during the Bakumatsu conflict or thereabouts, so the international connections can play a role. 

As a souls fanatic, I started this article with the usual skepticism and derision but after finishing it, I can’t help but agree.

People thinking Souls’s’ss’ games are some immutable, unchangeable work of perfection seem to neglect the fact that Elden Ring has taken a baseball bat to its original design about seven times now like Abby going golfing. My disc version I can install offline is a wildly, *wildly* different experience than current…

It reminds me of how the difficulty options in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Ghost of Tsushima changed combat from being soulslike to being akin to Action Combat games.  I loved it, because as I’ve gotten older, my reflexes have diminished to the point where I often mistime my dodges or blocks/parries, but those…

Every time I deal with a spider I think about the copy of Plants vs Zombies that ended up stuck on Fahey’s office ceiling and wonder if it’s still there.

pretty sure this was an episode of the Ducktales reboot