TLDR: The best parts was everything that wasn’t fan service and I want it to become the Durin and Elrond show. 

Completely agree. It is the reason why I stopped listening to fiction podcast unless it is finished and is only a season or two long.

How come you didn’t mention what games are leaving this month?

Completely agree. Except for a couple of games - I have stopped buying games since getting GamePass.

Feels worrying that:

I can’t judge the translation, but the Like a Dragon series has some of the best writing in gaming ever. It hits the emotional notes, etc. well but what makes it really stand out is the comedy.

The same thought I had with everything on this list...

Completely agree with you. That description immediately stood out to me - especially the idea of designing their own monsters... which is fine - as long as they remember that they are meant to be thematic.

Couldn’t you have shown the screenshots of the content in the article instead of most of them just being links?

Unless I missed it - why are you repeating an old article suddenly? As comments show from being from 2020... but if this was an update you left reference to Valhalla not being out yet at the end...

This feels like it should really harm the confidence of using the Epic Store assets to genuinely make games unless it is for free or proof of concept during development. While fromsoft were not raising the challenge to begin with - it does feel like this is an open door for developers to challenge.

Great to see a link to the Two Best Friends Play subreddit.

I would have said the main issue would have been public indecency? Sexualisation where minors are potentially around given that it is a theme park/public space in general. Imagine the amount of traumatised children if this type of behaviour was happening in Disney Land.

I would completely agree. 

It is more the inconvenience and the slippery slope of having to create and manage multiple accounts across multiple platforms with multiple organisations.

Thanks! You described it so much better than the article. Might check this out now based on what you said.

That is the first thing that came to mind as well! I was surprised it wasn't even referenced in the article. 

Same here, but I suppose we now know everything about that game. What better way to celebrate the series (and Tim Rogers video) by allowing us to experience a different game.

TLDR It doesn’t matter if you have a shop, bar, mini games, etc. on their own. It is meaningless. However, having them as settings for the sub stories is what brings them alive in Yakuza and tying them to game mechanics.

Do you have a link to that? Struggled to find it.