I’ve read a lot of reviews on Kotaku since I started reading in like 2009, but this has to be one of the most low effort reviews I’ve read here.

Some hot takes in this review. Preferring Callisto Protocoll over the Dead Space remake is ... interesting. I didn’t hear that one before. Probably because Callisto Protocoll was considered by most to be rather average and all.

Besides that, this review seems kinda unfocused. It’s jumping all over the place, clearly…

incomprehensible takes. Callisto Protocol sounds better than Dead Space?

“DISLIKED

Depends on how much graphics and animations matter to you. The gameplay of course is also a bit more clunky in the original and the Remake has some QoL improvements, but nothing major the original has aged well everything considered. The original Dead Space on PC has to be played with a controller, the mouse input is…

I’d like to disagree with you but I feel like I have to keep silent in order to show my solidarity with the great silent protagonists of the world.

I will never understand people who prefer silent protagonists...

Nothing takes me out of a game’s world more than some monumental shit happening and the main character just standing there in an idle animation.

This is an egregiously bad headline right?

You bought Rare and turned them into cold garbage. The only thing Bethesda can do on your watch is charge full price for annual re-releases of Skyrim, which isn’t even the best Elder Scrolls game. Hell, you could have updated some of the older ones and charged full price and fans would have thanked you.

“While I understand the desire to have a “complete” collection, I’ve never understood why people buy crap games just so their collection is “complete””

Impressive but looking at one example it’s a shame that some of the US editions are seemingly so dull.

Bayonetta still plays into the male gaze regardless, so unless they change how some of the camera angles play out it’s still slightly problematic. It’s like Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” in claiming it’s a story about female empowerment and seizing thier own agency which is contradicted by the fact it still uses the…

Something about this is just funny to me. Maybe because I’ve always thought people look more attractive in clothes or partially undressed than naked, but Bayonetta is so absurd that the idea of anyone getting upset about a filter like this seems silly to me.

Plus, come on, you can’t censor Bayonetta if you tried. That…

eh, I think their new models look fine age wise. They’re more consistent with their part 2 models, mostly, but they’re still obviously younger.

As someone who didn’t play TLOU until the PS4 remaster and has no intention of getting this remake, I have no problem with this. There are plenty of people who might have skipped (or were too young to have had) the PS3 and/or PS4 but now have a PS5 and want to try this game.

Doing a cursory search, it looks like LoD sold about 1.3 million copies over time. The Last of Us sold 1.3 million copies in ... seven days, and eventually sold north of 17 million copies between the PS3 and PS4.

That was added to the article after I asked, hence Ian’s reply to me.

yep!

Just to confirm, the first image is the no-filter one, right?