Yes, but that’s precisely why they like it so much. So that when things go wrong, as they inevitably do, they can all blame it on the calculations instead of themselves. 

Because Taylor-Joy and Day aren’t doing voices. That’s just them. So Peach is coming across as kids-movie-generic-female-badass voice #3 and Day just sounds like he’s making his own voice slightly higher pitched.

The corporate calculus is simple:

Emmet was basically Pratt in an animated form, a character designed for the VA, so his voice worked as that character.

Mario... isn’t. And it feels that he doesn’t have the range needed for the character. This is basically Chris Pratt being just... Chris Pratt, and that’s not a good thing when the character is Mario.…

The thing about Charles Martinet is I don’t think his usual performance is something I’d want to sit through for 80 minutes.

I thought he was great as Emmet too, but Emmet was an original character that Chris Pratt could just overlay his voice onto. People know what Mario is “supposed” to sound like, whether it’s the cheerful Italian stereotype from the video games or the gruff Brooklynite from the cartoon, and Chris Pratt doesn’t sound…

That’s because Emmet is just some regular guy, not an iconic character people have been growing up with for 40 years, and who has had a well-established voice for more than half of that time.

Most of all, Princess Peach throwing away the trope of being a damsel in distress for being the Mushroom Kingdom’s fearless leader wielding a freaking halberd matches the fierceness Anya-Taylor Joy brings to her roles, particularly in The Northman.

It’s kind of a shame this is the top comment, though I guess by replying I’m pushing it up again oh well, because that seems like an incredibly ungenerous and reductive distillation of the review.

The impression I get is less biphobia and more frustration with the storytelling itself, at least from the other reviews I’ve seen as well (including some by bi people; not sure if Isaiah is). It sounds like it’s less the fact that Bayo ends up with a man and more that a)it’s out of nowhere considering how intense…

Thats absolutely not the criticism being levied though, I’ve seen this sentiment echoed for a lot of these reviews and it strikes as incredibly shallow and dismissive, the problem isn’t and never was that bisexual women exist, it’s that bayonetta ending up with Luka, and her and Jeanne have a pretty unceremonious…

Trust me: even if Jeanne was endgame, it would still be poorly received. Bayo3 is incredibly repetitive with its cutscenes and segments - what Isaiah described is literally the formula for every level. Its tone flails all around the place - the very prologue switches between grim tragedy and black comedy in a way that…

Ya know, at first I was like “it’s a bayo game, who cares about the story? They’ve always been whatever.” Then I read the spoilers and uh...yeah, it ain't great.

Saw on another comment that the game stuck to the ceiling was added as an Easter egg to a later plants vs zombies game, which I thought was pretty cool.

That certain users kept concern trolling about “WHERE IS THE MIKE FAHEY ARTICLE” was annoying and completely insensitive. When a loved one dies, your first instinct isn’t to go and immediately write about it. You take the time to gather your thoughts and the thoughts of those closest to the person to make sure you get…

I’m in the journo industry, and I appreciate how much time and effort it takes to put together something with as many moving parts as this has. It was worth the effort, and is a fitting tribute to Mike.

to everyone wondering where our post was: this was it. it took a while assembling all the responses from current and former kotaku dot com staffers but all that time gave us the room to honor fahey in the best way we knew how. i didn’t get to work with him long but his personality and wit were infectious. im bummed…

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.

Think I’ve teared up three times reading this site: Mike’s struggle with gaming addiction, Mike’s story about being in a coma, and today reading this tribute.

Thank you—and thanks Mike, rest well, you made a lot of people happy. Truly Fahey was the best of us.

If you skipped to the comments please notice the GoFundMe link the editors posted at the end.