The two main complaints I've seen are that it interrupts the meatier gameplay (something I can half-accept) and that it's cliche 90's hacker movie territory (which is missing the point by a wide margin). Not all of the narrative beats worked for me and I do have a bone to pick with the bits where you have to get…

I really need to get into Overwatch. It's at the top of my list of games I need but haven't gotten the chance to play. Otherwise, my favorites of the games I've played so far:

That probably would have helped. I tried something similar with paper and pen, like I did for a lot of the puzzle mechanics I actually loved, but I was never able to fully parse how those damn things worked. The initial usage of it in the marsh just didn't click with me the right way, I suppose.

I would have gone along with that thinking process and not been driven to such curiosity if the environments weren't so immersive and deliberately-designed, if the statues weren't around, if the act of activating the beacons wasn't so impressive, if the mountaintop didn't feel like such a "THIS IS WHERE IMPORTANT…

That's what I was referring to. The sun thing, and the subsequent live-action clip. It answered the most basic question, but essentially wiped the slate of everything else by making it not matter.

It non-verbally sets up compelling mysteries about the nature and purpose of the island, where all of its inhabitants went, and whatnot. Everything I read about the game before its release brought up those mysterious elements, and they're effectively built up throughout the game itself, especially through the mountain…

I see your point, but they kiss unambiguously romantically in the "Sacrifice Chloe" ending, and the devs have confirmed that they go off to have a romantic life together in "Sacrifice Arcadia Bay" that they just didn't have the time / budget to flesh out.

The Witness is an odd one for me. In the first dozen or so hours, I was head-over-heels in love with it and all of its intricacies; I dove into every puzzle with single-minded fervor, crawled to the furthest corners of every area just to see what vague tease of a story I could find, tracked down as much side content…

For fuck's sake. One of main themes of the game is the butterfly effect — how your choices and time shifts reshape the world in positive and negative ways. Removing that destroys the whole purpose, even if you could potentially still wring something out of the cute romance and the serial abductor plot.

This should satisfy the "lol nothing happens, why don't we see the monster" crowd, but to someone who already loves the first movie, it just looks rather like a collection of the original's memorable scenes drained of subtlety and filtered through the expectations of modern found footage horror. It still looks pretty…

Don't worry about not being down with what all the way-hip-radical kids are doing, A.V. Clubbers. I'm a "millennial" and even I've never heard a single thing about this.

You know what? I liked this. Wasn't groundbreaking, but it was leagues above "furries discuss obvious, rote pop culture subjects" and "SOMETIMES GRITTY REBOOTS HAPPEN THAT'S THE SINGLE JOKE but the art is good at least."

ESPECIALLY in the animation categories.

On the one hand, great to see Fargo, Mr. Robot, and American Crime Story getting so much recognition, and there is no award that Tatiana Maslany doesn't deserve.

No, see, it's animated and all animation is for babies. There can be no true comedy or emotional profoundness in a cartoon. The enlightened voters know this as truth.

This election has become less a matter of which candidate I prefer, and more which candidate I think will do less permanent damage to the country and international relations. Which I suppose is inevitably true of almost any election (lesser of two evils, and all that), but I'd sooner vote for Mecha Hitler than have…

First: Yeah, it has its moments. It was an earlier one, so I'm willing to overlook most of the unpolished kinks.

Counter-counterpoint: Only Iron Man 2 and 3, Hulk, Thor 2, and Age of Ultron are mediocre, and the rest of the output sits at varying degrees of genuinely good-to-great.

If they're resorting to anime in the queue to extend her life, they could just start her on One Piece.

This is the shittest show I've ever watched. So very few things work remotely well within it, and it can't decide on a single tone to save its life; everyone who thinks it's just glorious camp is blocking out all but the best moments.