You got all the conspiracy right! Congrats! Here, I shaped your tinfoil hat like a crown to signal that among us fellow red pillers you are the true internet king.

Without ill intentions Kotaku is like the herald of doom of fan projects. Every time I see a big IP fan project highlighted here, the thing is C&Ded to oblivion.

《Horny Nintendo’s lawyer sounds》

NFT is basically buying/selling a unique serial key for something that doesn’t need a serial key at all.

This game achieved the epic feat of making Messi look even more like the YouTube-famous Koksal, a turkish dwarf.

“We should use the original voice actor, ask him to make the same voice but tone down the overly stereotypical Apu-level italian accent”.

To me the crux of the problem:

I just wanted mah boy Charles Martinet voicing Mario. If the way he talks in the game is too cheesy for movies, he could remodulate it for the fim to make Mario sound like a real person talking.

I mourn his departure deeply, as a fan and as an amateur artist myself.

Nintendo lawyers meeting a case where they can’t lift the C&D paperwork like weapons of vengeance:

Nintendo being petty to fan projects is really nothing new nowadays.

Yeah. Instead of reversing course and reflect on future business philosophy, they will concede slightly on the current matter, laying low until the next big shitty thing they do.

Remember that time when big developers didn’t alienated their customers until they entered a state of open riot?

Yeah, you turn into a wrong corner on a low level area and you are in a overleveled alley where the only way to deal reasonable damage on enemies is blowing scenario stuff on them while you run for your life.

Yeh, I’m on board of this view. This game beats the crap out of a lot o current-gen FPS and TPS but it seems that the polish that went to visuals is not the same that went to fine tuning and design choices.

As an amateur model maker/painter my admiration of all the effort, discipline and expertise involved in such good looking project is bordering acute envy.

I’m not a Sonic fan but I would love one of these for short-term play and showing off.

I refrained from buying it on pre-purchase cause it had no discount whatsoever, so I thought it would be wiser to wait and see some real gameplay to decide if I really wanted the game.

I have really nothing against IAP-fuelled gacha gaming (if it don’t imbalance the overall experience, that is), but oh boy, I do hope that this lame and cynical spit-in-the-face-of-fhe-fanbase cash grab just crash and burn in less than a year.

See? Being a complete ass to your fan community is not just a Nintendo thing.