Considering that everyone that has covered the series at Kotaku previously seem to hate it for some reason, this might be for the best. Even this seems to be cherry-picking a lot of isolated negative comments to try and justify calling it an ‘inscrutable mess’ when that doesn’t seem to be the consensus at all...

I wonder if that turned out to just be speculation? Harmony Gold was always the main roadblock to anything Macross and I wish we’d been able to pry their paws off it entirely.

Yeah and not saying you did, just wanted to clarify that the concept was already established, it’s just an extremely good early example of it from another animator.

While it’s extremely cool and very well animated (DYRL end to end is still one of the high water marks for traditional animation), it’s worth pointing out that Kitakubo didn’t come up with the whole missile spam thing. This is the “Itano Circus”, something that Ichiro Itano came up with working on Gundam and then…

Nozomi Entertainment is also doing Macross 7, not just Frontier and Delta:

Actually, Nozomi / Right Stuf announced they’re releasing Macross 7 too, Siliconera somehow missed this and Kotaku didn’t bother looking into it themselves.

It is technically “simulation sickness” rather than motion sickness, though it’s basically the same thing.

You... literally did? Right at the top of the thread?

Maybe you need to improve your ability to tell jokes, because rather than a joke this looked like you simply being wrong.

That has no bearing on where their focus is, and where they get the bulk of their money. Mobile is their lead SKU, the other versions are ports.

It is mobile first, it has PC and PS4 ports, and the vast majority of their money comes from Mobile.

In terms of budget at least, Genshin Impact. Initial release had a $100m budget and they’ve likely spent that or more over again keeping it running (and made $4 billion in the process as of March)

Personally never got that far with the EU. I was reading the books from Heir to the Empire (still upset they didn’t just take that as the basis for their sequel trilogy, it would have needed changes and updates but it was vastly better than what we got) up through toward the end of the New Jedi Order sequence, mainly…

It is split over Comics (both western and manga), Children’s Fiction, “Middle Grade” Fiction, Young Adult Fiction and Adult Fiction Novels, and Audio Dramas, plus there’s the upcoming Disney+ show.

I thought it was good, not amazing but very solid.

The line in ANH was that Vader “betrayed and murdered” Anakin, and definitely with that scene Obi-wan’s “lie” is recontextualized a lot - it definitely could be said to be true from a certain point of view.

Always sad to see stuff picked up by Netflix since they stubbornly refuse to simulcast. Show finally comes out in one big chunk well after the season is over and everyone has moved on to a new season, and stuff that should have made a splash barely makes a ripple as a result.

What? No, these are themes and discussions that come up in official canon media (Clone Wars and Rebels both go into this specific sort of philosophical discussion quite a bit, and it was a big part of The Last Jedi too) and which were being discussed in what at the time was official media too, like the New Jedi Order…

Personally, I consider II to be the more interesting experience. It’s less “Star Wars” in its style, it’s much darker and while the overall plot isn’t that great, the character writing and some of the themes they discuss are vastly more interesting. That more grey view of morality and the way it presents the Light and…

It wasn’t Bioware, it was Lucasarts. Bioware had very little involvement in KotOR II beyond providing the engine & tools.