Do you people really sit around and get all hot and bothered about any remotely critical article not portrayed to your liking, such as Kotaku in this case? Does it truly, deeply upset you? Seriously?

What the fuck are you ranting about?

Sir, this is an Arby’s.

Is this satire? If not, yikes. 

The gay panic and transphobia is why I won’t play Persona/Atlus games anymore. Man, Persona 4 was fucking HATEFUL. And Catherine? Jesus. Just... fuck. Ugh. I heard Tokyo Mirage Sessions is good, and I’ve not heard of hateful bullshit being in it, but I’m not gonna support anything they do until they demonstrate that…

Dude what

Too true. A real missed opportunity to provide some satisfying character growth. For games that really make the space and time for their characters to grow, Atlus sure do tend to constrain their characters to fairly limited arcs.

Yeah, both of those scenes stand out for me as the least enjoyable parts of an otherwise stellar game.

Yeah, but he doesn’t really suffer punishment either. Each time it comes up it’s played for laughs and it never goes anywhere.

They’re definitely the worst, very obvious shitty aspect of an otherwise mostly stellar game but there’s definitely a weird leering gaze towards the female characters too (Ryuji comes across as a serial creep at a couple of moments).

Good. Those scenes were ugly, jarring and uncomfortable in what was an otherwise thoughtful game. I hope they’re spiked in their entirety.

In b4 “you just don’t get their culture.”

A welcome step in the right direction. For a company that frequently uses tropes as an opportunity to subvert the player’s expectations, they have missed the mark frequently and often in how cringe-inducingly straight they have played the “gay panic” trope; or hell, really anything even slightly outside of hetero-norma…

Now if Japan could stop putting homophobic bullshit in their games in the first place....

That wasn’t a house, it was an apartment. Welcome to San Francisco!

I think you could see politics as solely being about, say, laws and governance etc, but everything you do and everything you interact with is going to come back to that sooner or later. Like, right now I’m sitting at home on my couch, and there’s all kinds of people and rights and laws that went into who made my…

Honestly? Because from a technical standpoint they made a shitty decision years ago not to model it for half the skeletons in the game and it takes time and resources to make the change. There’s a lot of old outfits from ARR they need to go through.

Me speculating: Prequel starring Jeralt and the incident 21 years ago? Rhea and Nemesis? Jeritza and Mercedes? That enemy Metodey that was only in one chapter? Going to Brigid? Almyra? 

wait so the abyss isn’t connected to the dubstep dungeon from the church route? bc boy howdy was that a loose thread.

“Two wrongs don’t make a right”