So I get the PS4 version for free with PS Plus, and the PS5 remastered version is only available with the Miles Morales Ultimate bundle (which costs $45 on sale, and I already bought the original Miles Morales PS5 full price for $60).

I wanted really badly to like the first one, and just didn’t get into it. Multiplayer stuff is not for me, and I couldn’t even finish the single-player mode. Maybe I’ll try Splatoon 2 someday; people say its single-player mode is better.

You play as a FLOWER, and in each area you find a different kind of FLOWER, and to win you have to activate all the FLOWERS, I think it was called “The bus that couldn’t slow down.”

Would you find the ending of Return of the Jedi more satisfying if all those force ghosts were holding some power converters from Toschi station for Luke, since he never got to pick them up at the beginning of the first Star Wars?

Agreed. If the other cats were the point of the game, there were lots of ways they could have established that, like having flashbacks or having you collect tokens with their pictures or getting messages from them somehow while you’re inside, or even just having the main character say “I gotta find my friends!” The…

Agree, not sure I’d want kids to even watch the game; there are parts like the zombie mice and the eyes on the wall that would definitely give my son nightmares. Other articles here that discussed the horror elements of the game were correct. 

Kotaku really made it sound like there was way more shooting than there was. Maybe because that section was easier for me than the stealth parts (with zero checkpoints, grumble grumble) but it felt like it was over very quickly, and I was surprised you never get the weapon again.

The robot friend does NOT stand in for the cat’s family. He has his own thing going on, as do all the other robots in the game, and none of them have any idea the cat even has a “family,” nor do you as the player. (They might just be friends, and they might even be a gang of cats your character just met last week.)

You’ve been writing an awful lot all over these threads about how unsatisfying the game ending is for someone who hasn’t even started it.

That’s one of the silliest things I’ve ever heard. Talking about the beginning of a thing and the end of a thing are totally different in terms of spoilers. “In the first five minutes of the movie Batman dies” is a mild spoiler, “At the end of the movie Dick Grayson is the new Batman” is a major spoiler.

I literally finished the game this morning, so it wasn’t spoiled for me, but I don’t want the title of an article to tell me whether the game has a happy or sad or fulfilling or disappointing ending. “Let’s talk about Stray’s ending” would have been totally fine. 

Assuming you’re correct that the average age is 24 (this is also the number Microsoft says), that doesn’t mean most people who use it are adults.

I think it’s mainly for Nintendo games, since they are no longer getting review copies of the games because of the “pirate Metroid Dread on day one” debacle.

Someone asked me what kind of cat I have, and I said, “Um, medium-sized?”

Comparing the sale of Sierra to not shooting Hitler is...a little much. 

I feel like all the big three console makers have now faced the EXACT SAME PROBLEM with using the same name to mean multiple things.

It feels like you are trying to restrict the definition of “licensed game” to mean “games that aren’t very good.” Which is unfair and arbitrary, since some licensed games are quite good.

There’s a typo in the first paragraph: you say “June 19" but you mean “July 19.”

It’s open-world in the same way that Pac Man World and Super Mario 3D World are, i.e. not at all. Nobody knows why Kotaku writers keep claiming this.

Putting in a request here for a 7th Guest version of this. He reminds me of Stauf taunting the player.