It’s totally solid. Not doing anything new and especially not doing anything amazing, but it does enough familiar things well enough that I’d recommend a playthrough.

Turns out it was a secret plan devised by FromSoft and Sony Santa Monica to make sure their throwdown wasn’t interrupted.

I think it’s silly all around, this stuff, but I also think a lot of core users deliberately blind themselves to just how popular programs like Genshin are. I have my own thoughts and feelings on gacha (bad, smelly, bad) but even if Mihoyo genuinely is trying to put their fingers on the scales I imagine most of the…

Perfect, the nightmare modern reality of advertising being everywhere combined with propaganda to die for oil companies being shoved into our hobbies.

The number of comments both here and elsewhere I’ve seen suggesting Charles Martinet, a man who has been a professional voice actor for longer than this franchise’s core audience has been alive, wouldn’t do a good job because they assume he can literally only do the lines “wahoo” and “it’s-a-me” are something.

“Otherwise, don’t bother complaining about games that are late or buggy as shit.”

“Even an average game is still better than no game ever imo.”

A LOT of people have tried to argue with me that the “story” of this series doesn’t matter as if they’d pay sixty dollars for the same game with zero textures, dialogue, or cutscenes.

Your avatar and handle are Nintendo copyrights so I suggest you get to changing them before they come for you.

As I explained to Nugwisomkami, the gameplay might in fact be quite great but the way the different realities/timelines all seem to end would wear on me to the point that I wouldn’t care how sick my combos were.

I’m open to *possibly* trying it down the line when I can pick up a used copy for cheap but the story beats, especially the constant deaths? For what this character means to me, I think that would make me miserable. I try to be very aware of the language I’m using because you’re right, it’s really easy to go “worst…

Choosing the headcanon that Isaiah is a fellow formerly-Zaibatsu fan with some of these recent clip links. Good!

“When are you boring bastards going to pick up on the potential of this stuff? maybe mention the people who are being inspired by the systems, creating images never before seen? never to be seen again? unrepresented ideas and concepts?”

Well it won’t get me on your side but maybe when you stop referring to us as…

Oh yeah, this is the guy we want publishing games. Future’s looking real bright.

If it only negatively impacts the “value” of speculative collectors’ collections I don’t think I see the problem.

It has been broadly accepted by the people in society worth keeping around. There’s some discussion around how elegantly it was handled vis-a-vis Bridget’s backstory and the reason she presented feminine in the first place, but it’s messy in the earnestly-well-meaning-written-by-a-cis-person way. Same as Swery’s…

“I honestly don’t get why this article seems so obsessed with Vtuber Agencies...”

Wouldn’t you know it, I used the word “cloying” instead of “clinging” for some reason. My point still stands.

I don’t play many JRPGs so I can’t speak to that genre specifically but we’ve seen this recently in the fighting game space where after the reveal that Bridget from Guilty Gear was a trans woman, you had people of the absolute worst weab variety coming out of the woodwork to claim the following in sequence: it was a…

It’s amazing, they’re morally screwed up AND stupid at the same time.