I’m going to give your favourite game a score of 7.8 and see how you deal with it.

I think a major part of the problem is that in the real world kids and adults exist in their own separate worlds, police tend to get called when the kids’ world gets infiltrated by adults, but online everyone is mingled together, because “no one knows you’re a dog”.

The music is incredible, except for one stand-out ear destroyer: The Gaia’s Navel theme.

Wow, I can do without that voice acting. If I ever play this, I hope there’s an option to turn it off.

It’s almost as if they could have gotten it right by hiring one singular consultant from a certain country. But I guess the big budget isn’t big enough for that.

I never would have said this back in my Nintendo fanboy days, but the Sonic games absolutely look better than the Mario games. Gameplay, however, Mario can’t be beat. It’s just so finely tuned.

You should take off your shoes inside someone’s home whether you’re in Japan or not. :P

It could be because the “direct market” gained sales dominance toward the end of the ‘70s, leading to less comic distribution on the newsstand, and comic shops were the domain of boys.

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Japan has a pretty terrible track record with translating anime to live action, so I wouldn’t expect much to begin with.

It takes place in the same era, and shares some of the same contemporary factions, so there’s gonna be some similarities on the surface.

I was in the audience for that 2001 Nintendo press conference.

Reveal Twist: We’re living in it right now.

Also maybe start having kids again?

“Because foreigners with anime icons would swoop.”

Anime moms? Wow, that’s a rare category, given the default “tragic childhood” shonen trope.

Nintendo pissed-off Sony, then pissed-off Philips, and then pissed-off Sony again. The two companies that co-developed and held the patents to the CD-ROM tech.

Even Harry can’t escape that fact, if what I’ve read about The Cursed Child is correct.

Didn’t this also happen with Little Big Planet?

The creative arts in Japan generally avoid using actual brands in their works. The law is a bit different over there. If you read manga or watch anime, you’d see parody company names like Somy or Tentendo in the background, and almost never the real brands themselves.