I’m not even wading in to the comments to see if there is at least one person defending a Japanese development team making insular cultural decisions regarding their own fantasy universe, because I’m sure there is at least one. That said, I really wish people would stop using this as an excuse. Final Fantasy is an…

I was hoping I wasn’t the only one to notice him. Not disappointed.

This looks intriguing, but also looks like yet another JRPG full of white dudes. There is surprisingly little diversity in the cast they’ve shown thus far. You’d think that with multiple kingdoms they showed in the video that they could easily justify a more widely varied look to each kingdom’s population.

Great review. I only wish you spent some actually talking about the co-op mode, because it changes the game up somewhat, but is also very well executed. I had a blast playing with my partner and our daughter during early access, and none of us ever had any lag or connectivity issues. Fighting many of the various bugs,…

Look, I’m all about dunking on this loser, but he doesn’t deserve the attention. I wish sites would stop reporting on his antics. 

It’s possible it will come back in a later update. Both Splatoon’s 1 and 2 had several map additions as time went on, and some of Splatoon 2's added maps were re-tooled versions of maps from the first game.

Find Controllers works without a joy-con. You can use the touchscreen to get in to the menu in the first place, and just hold your finger down on whichever controller you’re looking for.

I keep seeing this argument being made, but this is a lot of work to go to just to generate some buzz for the Switch release. It doesn’t make sense that it would all be for that, unless the Switch edition has new content akin to what was added to Nier Replicant 1.22. If this is indeed a marketing stunt, I’d put my…

I really wish the narrative around this was stated better by the press, because Roe v. Wade didn’t just protect a woman’s right to an abortion. It made a woman’s privacy about all health matters a right, which it justifiably should be. It’s sickening that, as a man, I have more rights about the privacy of my medical…

I don’t know why COBRA is even brought up as a benefit at all. You have to pay the entirety of the employer’s part of the health insurance premium on top of what you were already paying, while being unemployed.

I would be surprised if PlatinumGames did the port themselves instead of a 3rd party handling it. They wouldn’t have a say anyway, would they? Seems like it would be a Square-Enix call.

I really hope they don’t settle this out of court, but I imagine they probably will. 😞

Unrelated observation: Aonuma cut his hair! I don’t think we’ve seen him with his hair this short before, have we? Looks good.

Now there’s some wishful thinking. Setting yourself up for a letdown, looks like.

I suppose this is as much confirmation as we can hope for that the Breath of the Wild sequel won’t release this year. We already know it’s not coming in the first half of 2022, so unless Nintendo wants to pit Zelda against Pokémon, which seems unlikely, we won’t see Zelda until at least 2023. 

Sure seems like SE can’t do math, or at least has its expectations firmly planted in a Kingdom Hearts-like reality. One has to wonder if their gauging the worldwide market, or if they’re just looking at Japan, because it doesn’t seem to make sense that the games developed by their western studios, almost without…

I don’t think it’s mentioned in the article, but Bethesda did announce that AE will have at least two new quest lines for this edition: one based on Morrowind (Ghosts of the Tribunal) and one on Oblivion’s Mythic Dawn (The Cause). Whether that justifies the upgrade or not is up to you, but the fishing stuff is…

I’ve tried that fishing mod, and it’s pretty terrible. I expect that AE’s official fishing addition actually looks and works more like actual fishing.

I don’t know why these groups even bother dealing with Nintendo at this point. Let them host and market their own events, which would probably be preferable for Nintendo, anyway. I love many of Nintendo’s games, but man, the level of control they want to have over everything they touch is insane.

The OLED Switch might be brighter, but it won’t be sharper. Because the screen is bigger, but the resolution remains 720p, it will actually be less sharp than the original Switch.