Fucking TikTokers are like Instagramers with 10x the asshole.

No, it’s not. It’s just how terrible Japanese corporations are in general.  In particular, everyone working at GameFreak has likely been through this.

We may be seeing more of this as they keep going back through his history! Who knows how long he’s been doing it?

Babylon’s Fall absolutely owns it for most lazy cynical failure. ‘Here’s a boring ugly service game with almost no content for $60, suckers, trust us, we’ll update it later, now cough up for those micropayments on top of your $60.’ It failing as hard as it deserved is actually one of the best stories of 2022 (while…

This is very Japanese. Your interview consists of you sitting in a rickety foldup chair in the middle of the floor (possibly with several other candidates in a gang interview because you’re disposable mobs) facing a table with three or four interviewers who have strong opinions on what today’s young people are lacking…

“Garvin has since moved on from Sony Bend Studio, and is now working on a game that has NFTs.”

For people who like the slice of life stuff over flashier but worse written stuff like Witch From Mercury I’d put in a good word for Do It Yourself and Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai (My Master Has No Tail). The only problem with the latter is that it’s so full of untranslatable jokes that I’m not sure if it’s fun…

It looks great, and the character designs are great, but Kubo Tite can’t do a decent plot to save his life and this is no better.  I’ve always wished they’d paired him up with someone who could write.

Metal Hellsinger is short, but glorious while it lasts - and there’s nothing like it except Bullets Per Minute.  It certainly deserves to be on a list of best shooters of 2022.

No, it is a broken disaster if you’re not on PS5... if you are then rock on.

If you’re going to go reductionist, then every single person who plays videogames is an entitled bourgeoise elite piece of shit who should be first up against the wall when the revolution comes, as are you who can actually read and post on Kotaku. If you can buy this game at all you are insufferably rich. How much of…

The only thing Nintendo can credibly claim to care about is money. Big fat stacks of it.  Anything else is just a way to get that money.

You buy an Xbox for the ‘all you can eat’ buffet model of Gamepass, not for the quality of exclusives (though it has plenty of great cross-platform games). Sony and Nintendo are no question miles ahead of it for quality exclusives. You’re getting all you can eat for one price buffet sushi rather than sitting at the…

Well it’s absolutely true. Sony has amazing exclusive after amazing exclusive and MS has... Forza (which I do like), Microsoft Flight Simulator (ditto), Sea of Thieves (fun for some people), tired old Halo and botched Infinite, and tired old Gears of War.

So GameFreak and Pokemon Company get the message that they can just crap out janky shit (with most of the Pokemon missing, even) for two games in a row and the fanboys will buy it anyways. I guess we know what the future is and I am out of it.  No Scarlet for me unless it gets fixed on PC.

Well, what do you expect from a big evil corporate octopus with such a blatantly dystopian Orwellian name like ‘The Embracer Group’?  That immediately conjures up images of infants being lovingly smothered to death.  ‘Shhhh... shhhh... it’ll be okay... sleep now... and forever.’

If this results in fewer shit sandwiches like Diablo Immortal then this is a complete win win for everyone but Bobby ‘Douchebag’ Kottick.

It is absolutely someone’s fault at GameFreak or The Pokemon Company that they’re using this crappy engine instead of a decent one, especially since Arceus had similar problems and really exposed that their current in-house engine is not up to the task. At that point any decent management would have moved to…

It’s not the hardware - yes, the Switch is relatively underpowered but it can at least do this much.  Just look at Xenoblade Chronicles 3 or Breath of the Wild, which are far larger, more ambitious, and better looking than this with none of the problems.  The problem is GameFreak’s crappy internal engine.

This is due to GameFreak being too lazy or prideful to drop their own terrible game engine and switch to one like Xenoblade Chronicles 3's engine or Unreal.