Well, there’s a lot of negativity swirling around here, but I’d just like to say that while I’m mostly here for Kotaku, which I read every day with my breakfast, I generally find the reporting by all subsidiaries of your media group to be interesting, relevant, and well-written (as this particular article was). It is…
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It drives my PC-gamer boyfriend crazy, but I have a lot of trouble seeing the difference between framerates. This may be because I simply don’t play games that would require a high framerate (running Persona 5 at 60 fps would not noticeably improve my accuracy), but he’ll run something on his fancy PC and call me in…
I’ve accepted that I’m never going to go back to Fire Emblem: Awakening. It’s objectively a great game, but I got married to Chrom and I max leveled Panne the battle rabbit AND her son from the future, and those were really my three goals in playing the game. I enjoyed my time with it, though.
My parents aren’t really into gaming at all — they didn’t let me play much of anything growing up, repeating the refrain “they’ll rot your brains” ad infinitum — but whenever we visited our cousins, we’d all play Sonic the Hedgehog together, and I loved it. My mother would sit with us and knit as we played, mostly to…
Right now, I probably play the most JRPGs on my Nintendo 3DS (though I’m currently working my way through the Wii greats, Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story), but I really think the PS2 era holds my favorite RPG memories. Final Fantasy X and X-2 got me into gaming, and Star Ocean: Til the End of Time, Shadow…
My partner and I just started playing Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in co-op together, and it’s so nice to just kind of lie on top of each other murdering slimes together in a chill, turn-based battle system. I’m comically, frustratingly awful at platformers and games in which I have to shoot things,…
Veggie stock works pretty much the same, though I like the flavor of Not-Chick’n Bouillon cubes, which you can find online or at grocery stores with substantial natural food sections. In place of chicken, I used to use small cubes of tofu, but I can’t eat soy any more, so small chunks of seitan or Quorn “chicken” get…
I love omurice - or omuraisu, as my otaku roommate used to call it - but I always just made the rice in the exact manner I make any other fried rice, just substituting a small amount of ketchup in place of soy sauce. This glazing technique seems promising, and this may be what I eat for lunch today.
I didn’t know the dance in Totoro had a name! What does “dondoko” mean?
Not my kind of game, but the music is great! Very Stranger Things.
Oh man, you are correct that Censored Gaming does get its panties in a twist about a lot of silly things, especially costumes. (They did a few overly hysterical videos about costumes in Bravely Second that I found very amusing.)
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To be fair, the changes were pretty significant. There’s an entire plot arc that is severely undercut by a particular localization choice. Considering that Atlus typically has no problem bringing over mature content (see every Persona game), I was very surprised by the decision, but I expect that it was dictated by…
I did not know there WAS a collector’s edition. Jealous!
I just picked up a Wii U, and this game was one of the reasons that I did so. I feel like most people did not know what to make of its weirdly discordant cross-over, but I’ve played most of the SMT games, and I knew what I was getting into. It’s definitely designed for a very specific subset of people, though. The…
I get very easily frustrated by difficult games, and I have definitely been known to scream obscenities as I fling my controller to the floor and my boyfriend ducks for cover. But I have NEVER in my life, no matter how frustrated or angry I am, yelled a racist epithet. I will cuss a blue streak of f-bombs in several…
My boyfriend and I don’t finish each other’s sentences. We are instead capable of flawlessly interpreting each other’s vague and indeterminate statements, such as, “Hey, did you put the thing in the thing yesterday?” Or, “Don’t forget you have to do that thing later, and don’t forget to bring that other thing.”
Honestly, I feel a little bad for the guy. I don’t think anyone’s every officially confirmed if Zuckerberg is on the spectrum or not, but a lot of his mannerisms remind me strongly of my high-functioning autistic partner. If Zuckerberg IS on the spectrum, I can’t even imagine how stressful this experience must have…
I don’t know if the entire God of War staff had some sort of Super Lasik surgery as a team bonding exercise or what, but the text in this game’s menus is too small for me to read while sitting 8 feet away from a 42-inch television.
There are damned few people out there who are so desperate that literally any attention is welcome; it’s just another way of mocking and hating on women, especially women who are overweight.