Literally everyone is biased. Why would you call any journalist “unbiased”?

That would’ve blown the entire twist right in the first 15 minutes.

“it’s easy to see this is one of Nintendo’s best Mario games in years.”

By virtue of being one of its only Mario games in years?

Uh, Xenoblade 1 had voices. So did all three Xenosaga games.

I was never in love with the comic, but one area it excels in is O’Malley’s storytelling skills as a cartoonist. There are gags and visual concepts he pulls off that very few others even attempt. It’s a blend of manga aesthetics with the sensibilities of classic American animators.

“But all of that changes in the final issue”

Volume. The series was never released in issue form.

“Square Enix’s developers decided to add a bespoke animation”

We get it, you learned a new word recently. You don’t have to use it in every article.

“it’s not perfect but” “isn’t exactly Shakespeare but”

You have really bad standards for video games.

Imagine not actually knowing anything about chords in pop music.

The New 3DS came out at a time when Nintendo was oversaturating the market with different consoles and different versions of the same consoles that all had similar names. People notoriously did not understand that the Wii U was a substantially different thing from the Wii. And the problem with the New 3DS was that it…

Well, it’s mostly because their consoles are the weakest, and therefore easiest to emulate. It’s still hard to run certain games well on the ps3 emulator, given how much of a beast that console originally was.

Yikes, no.

“Kiryu (whom Hajime is based on) doesn’t purposely kill people!”

Right, he just shoots rubber bullets at yakuza riding on top of cars going full speed on the highway who then fall off and are perfectly fine, and also shoots a grenade launcher at a flying helicopter whose pilot is fine and everyone at the site of the…

Kenzan came out before Yakuza 3, which is currently the worst game in the series if you look at the most modern iterations of each game. Kenzan would take a lot of work both to update the assets and to make it actually fun to play.

“How about just buy from developers who make good games.”

Who decides what a “good game” is? And if you haven’t played a game yet, how can you decide whether it’s “good” and worth buying?

“it’s about respecting players who bought the game and not rewarding people who “hold off” on buying it at a lower price.”

This is so bizarre. When people pay full price for a game that likely will or routinely does go on sale, they’re making a deliberate choice for one reason or another. Someone who buys a legit copy…

Why is Kotaku doing all this probono marketing for Nintendo?

“I mean, yeah, that’s the problem. They’ve strayed quite far from their roots”

That’s not a problem. The issue isn’t that earlier games were somehow superior, because they definitely have not aged well. The problem is that the approach to the newer games prioritizes quantity over quality. 

“if they want the release schedule they have”

Uh, Valhalla will have come out almost three years prior to Mirage when Mirage actually comes out. You’re thinking of the pre-Odyssey schedule.

I loved Odyssey, but everything you describe very much applies to Valhalla, which I did not enjoy.