I’ve played through the game twice now. There is no appropriation here; this writer is finding controversy where there is none. This has been fairly commonplace with sites like Kotaku and Polygon so don’t take this article as the one source of truth on the subject.

White, straight men are not permitted to explore social commentary in their work. Same exact game with a black female director would have been received differently.

Like most of the sjw and pc culture crowd they try to find issues where there are none.

Never underestimate the enmity of those for which outrage is a pastime. -Josephine Montilyet

SNES hands down. Partly because those games still hold up. PSX might edge it out in volume but they don’t hold up as well. They feel dated.

Jesters in Horseless Carriages Swilling Demitasse.

Most of what’s in here has not been reported before.

“...handwritten with Lawler’s distinctive, all-caps comic book dialogue brand of penmanship.”

only true intellectuals can finish a kotaku article

Great writing, super father. You really took me on a journey. And even though I knew exactly what the end would be, it still was hilarious and a little bit heart-breaking. Thanks for this! And thanks to Nintendo EPD.

You didn’t make it to the end of the article, did you?

The Mario outfits are pretty cool. I’m glad Nintendo didn’t decide to turn them into microtransactions, because people would have probably paid for them.