I am very tempted. Souls-like, Pinocchio, decadent French setting... it's all very appealing. I'm just a bit burnt-out on souls-likes at the moment. It's definitely on my watch-list. Thank you.

FF7 is the cautionary tale that keeps on telling...

Having fled a polluted city of unchecked corporate, militaristic oppression, I’m hit with the light of a bright blue, endless sky. Rich green grass extends endlessly before me; mountains tower in the distance. The world around me is a wellspring of life. Yet it’s haunted by a creeping shadow of harm. I see it in…

What throws me off is that - at least for the other G/O sites (now I’m questioning whether Kotaku does it) - their style guide apparently dictates that they write in the plural first-person (we, us). So their articles and hence their opinions at least suggest to casual readers that Kotaku should be treated like a hive…

Cliff Burton never died, Dave Mustaine’s not an asshole, Metallica’s still making good music, you know, while we’re speculating.

This is all a deception. They saw all the leaks and are throwing you off with these new leaks that are fake leaks so that they can reveal that it’s coming out tomorrow, and is launching with The Mario of Zelda: Pokémon Kazooie, where Ness and Samus team up to go 1080 Snowboarding against Andross. The system will…

It’s a damn shame we never got the Prey 2 sequel that looked like a great bounty hunting alien game.

I didn’t start playing it until December after it had seen multiple patches, and while I have encountered various glitches (from relatively minor to some fairly serious ones) and still do to this day (I’m just at the end of Act 2 now), all in all I’ve been extremely pleased with the experience. Perhaps the (well…

Oh, I agree with you there. They shouldn’t have had to.

No love for Yae from the Ganbare Goemon franchise? Check out that impractically-long-for-a-ninja hairdo!

I find it odd how this surprises people. Even if it had a bit of a slow start the console still turns 4 this year. I think it would be far weirder if Sony wasn’t gearing up for the next system at this point. Most consoles have their next iteration come out about 6 years into their lifecycle. That means PS6 was more…

1) Then Florida police needs to update their hiring standards and perform psych evals on every candidate to make sure that any undiagnosed PTSD cases don’t endanger the public they are supposed to protect.
2) As someone else said, the officers searched, cuffed, and placed the suspect in the vehicle. If he had reason…

The lesson here should be that you don’t try to kick-start a new AAA franchise with a AAA budget and AAA expectations. Marketing and advertising are no replacement for the organic hype of people telling other people to play it!

Zell and the Hot Dogs 4EVA

The unwashed reddit/tweetosphere needs to understand that THEY are not representative of the other millions who play videogames and aren’t terminally online. This kind of thing isn’t FOR THEM. The devs didn’t put that stuff in to insult your intelligence, they put it in for the normies and there are way more of them…

I think people would find it less jarring if it wasn’t the same specific visual in so many different games. Like, I’m sure there’s ways to highlight ladders and ledges that are just as legible (ledgible?) but more rooted in individual worlds - because it’s pretty immersion-breaking when you see stuff that’s explicitly…

I’ll take both please. A FFVIII remake and a spin off showing Laguna Adventures.  I understand FFVII is the fan darling but I feel FFVIII and the other FF games would benefit more using the same treatment. 

The epic love story between Zell and the cafeteria hot dogs, is just as memorable if not more so.

I mean sure, if you ignore the love stories of Tidus and Yuna, Zidane and Garnet, Cloud and Tifa, Locke and Celes, and Zell and Hotdogs, then yeah, Squall and Rinoa clearly have the best love story.

I don’t know. I like the stuff between Squall and Rinoa and the stuff between Laguna and Julia separately, but when it’s taken into greater context of both of them, it’s kind of a weird story to me. Because the game isn’t just about Squall and Rinoa, it’s also about Laguna and Julia and their children finally hooking…