Just an FYI that it doesn’t release on October 5th, but on October 10th. There’s five days early access for the premium edition, which you might be confused about.

“this month’s stellar Ori and the Blind Forest”

That should be Ori and the Will of the Wisps

But in the end people (including me) liked Patrick at GiantBomb. The tight knit community that GiantBomb is would have been sceptical about every addition at that time (even now, but less so). The fact that it was Patrick, is just a side note basically.