So much slowdown in that asteroid field. It’s like playing the very first Metroid and firing so many missiles that you enter bullet time, only with way worse movement controls so you smack right into a big rock.

It’s amazing how differently this game plays when you don’t care what ending you get. I played the whole game like it was the nonviolent missions in Splinter Cell, and in the process reminded myself why I really hate Splinter Cell.

And now Gamesindustry.biz is having an argument in the comments over sexism. Both a comment saying women should just laugh off sexism and an “educate yourself” comment with a generic link got Popular Comment status. This shit really does happen everywhere. (Though it’s still the most polite argument about sexism I’ve…

I tried looking her up, and kept finding references to something called Naisho no Tsubomi.

In theory, you're not supposed to be able to get the good ending in Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume unless you're doing a New Game Plus. The good final boss is so ridiculously overpowered that when you attack it once, it can potentially kill your entire party with the counterattack, plus it can heal 80% of its…

Where's Gamegated Manfortress when we need him?

The Dragon Age series has gotten a lot of attention, both good and bad, for its diversity. People of color, trans people, mentally ill people . . . I've seen how the writers responded to all the commentary and criticism, but you folks are a little farther removed. Did you expect this outpouring of reactions, and how…

I actually laughed out loud. I probably won't play this, but I'd love to see a drunken Let's Play on Something Awful.

"The terms relating to a player's willingness to spend are reasonably well defined and understood, but terms describing players' abilities, interests and preferences are typically poorly understood and agreed upon."

I could swear I saw a Kotaku review of an RPG with psychic party members who could potentially betray you. It was largely negative, arguing that the betrayal was just an unnecessary gimmick.

I'm having a hard time wording what bothers me about this article. Obviously, rape porn is going to stir up strong emotions, but still . . . Maybe it's just because there's such a divide between the early part of the article, which is all You Can Panic Now, and the later parts, which are so much more even-handed—like…

Mgrgr!

Something about these faces makes me think of Wakfu.

That's the kind of setting I'll admit I haven't played much of; the last I can remember off the top of my head was Quest For Glory III, and, ahem, that was a very long time ago.

As a general rule, if it has the "anime" tag on Steam, and it has any romance at all, the reviews will be hilarious. Especially if there's sex.

I can't either, and that didn't even matter once I unlocked the spell that lets you add five extra dice to the field. I don't know whether to call it a hard game that gets easier, an easy game to beat that encourages you to exploit it to get better endings, or just tsundere.

Inb4 "You should have been the one who reviewed Littlewitch Romanesque, not Richard!" (Honestly, I could see where he was coming from, but the commentariat sure roasted him for it.)

I passed a vocabulary test in seventh grade with "addled" and "impudent" from Final Fantasy VIII.

I'm currently playing Brave Soul, which gives you no map at all on the first playthrough. The dungeons are pretty deviously designed, though not unfairly so—it's easy to get lost for ten or twenty minutes, but always possible to eventually figure out which way to go. Then you get a full map of every dungeon on your…

Honestly, I would love an anime of FFVI. It deserves it at least as much as Persona 4.