Mike, I’m so glad to see YOU specifically posting this note prior to the game’s release. Nothing against Jason personally (and I wish him the best after his departure), but his reviews of Xenoblade always were hard to read as someone who holds the franchise in very high regard. Xenoblade 2 is still one of my favorite…

You guys included Xenoblade 1, but not Xenoblade 2? XC2's soundtrack was a MASTERPIECE. Like to the level where you avoided battles because you didn’t want it to interrupt the music.

Kotaku is known for doing that, though: assigning all news items and updates about a specific game to a particular editor who makes it painfully clear their distaste for that specific game. Like how when the news dropped on a piece of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 DLC, the article here basically lead off with “If for some…

There was one time where my PSN account, with 10+ years of purchasing history and trophies (plus PS+ access), got stolen. Whoever hacked into it not only changed the password, but also changed the recovery email and the primary console, which completely removed me from the account and cut me off from any attempt to…

I know it’s a pipe dream (ba-dum PSH), but a Super Mario RPG remaster maybe?

I converted an old Jessica Rabbit cosplay pic I drew back in 2015 into a mural to welcome visitors. :) 

I dropped a Samus into mine! I did a ton of pixel art in previous AC’s, it feels good to have it back again. The newest editing tools are a lot more convenient, too (the Luigi hat is also custom).

Jenga: Salad Fingers Edition. 

PC only? Did they drop any hints that this could be patched into the console versions anytime soon? I’d be up for the challenge of getting through the levels in a janky, wobbly star.

Yup, also agreed.

I would question whether context and intent come into play with this suit. If they’re not using “Choose Your Own Adventure” explicitly in the title of the game, but rather simply using it in an explanation of a game mechanic — i.e. “as the player, you have the capability to choose your own adventure within the game…

It is definitely the same moves, but it’s not directly rotoscoped from his footage. It looks like they hired dancers to learn his routines, filmed them, and used THAT footage as reference for the animation. That could potentially be a technicality where they could claim his original video was never directly…

There is hard-to-read red text hovering over the “ghosts” of the bosses in the second panel. The gag being that he’s referring to the bosses/management from his former places of employment, not in-game bosses.

Except I imagine, thanks to moving away from the “individual screen” overworld format, that the menu-screen-transition-skip trick no longer works. I enjoyed breaking the original game finding places to do that and getting stuck in scenery/mountains.

I made a level that was a complete recreation of the Goonies. Was pretty proud of it, but it’s completely lost in the ocean of millions of levels out there. The greater success of the Switch means it’s even harder to get noticed on MM2.

Lucky. In 4th grade I wrote a “story” that was basically lifted straight from a Tiny Toon Adventures script and all I got was a call home to my parents.

Also of note: every episode that featured him as a guest on Game Grumps/Grumpcade has already been scrubbed from their channel. 

And 20 years later, Square still hasn't managed to produce a third entry, and likely never will, for some inexplicable reason. 

I was going to say Gary Gnu would be more like a Dark Knight-style Joker character, spreading chaos for the thrill of it.