I feel awful saying this, but:

You can be stone-cold certain this game is the result of business people crunching numbers and listening to algorithms. Nobody who actually plays or enjoys games (or, let’s be honest, enjoys anything but the sound of money clinking its way into a bank account) is steering the ship on projects like this. It’s soulless,…

honestly MK is at its best when it hews to its roots: goofy ultraviolent martial arts pastiche

primer nothing, the place needs a good burning

Okay, but important question: is Johnny Yong Bosch going to reprise his role as Vash the Stampede in the English dub.

Buying this game is a statement that you don’t mind that the franchise’s creator is a vicious transphobe.

Even if she doesn’t literally take a royalty cut from every copy of the game, buying Hogwarts Legacy is the same as saying that you don’t mind that the franchise is the product of a virulent transphobe, or that the premise of this game in particular showcases some of the most nakedly bigoted elements of her setting.

You really are making a statement if you buy this game, though.

my mind goes to Herostratus, the man who burned down the Temple of Artemis so he’d go down in history as the man who burned down the Temple of Artemis

ツチノコ -> ノコッチ

I’m legitimately curious what its actual Japanese name is now, because Dunsparce is “Nokocchi” (a semi-anagram of “Tsuchinoko”)

I don’t normally do this kinda thing but I gotta say:

Por que no los dos?

It’s Sada and Turo, and they’re based on the Spanish words for “past” and “future,” “pasada” and “futuro.”

You’d think those toys were Szechuan Sauce-flavored.

They won’t, because they’ve invested everything into this fantasy.

Dragon Warrior was because of trademark shenanigans. And honestly, if you play Yakuza: Like a Dragon, you’ll see there’s actually a solid reason why they’re taking the opportunity to treat the original Western name as an artifact.

I shouldn’t be surprised at this point to hear people are trying to “fix” the loc by “adding profanity back in” but it’s like you said: the people bitching about this are the ones who have literally no idea what they’re talking about.

Speaking of DKC, was I the only one who thought of Kaptain K. Rool’s trickier cannonball shots when Esther Winchester started spitting steaks? Those nasty looping shots which like to hit you from behind?

It’s a bit like how in Ye Olde Days you had to pull fancy tricks to work around hardware limitations - e.g. the famous Wily Stage dragon in Megaman 2 being drawn on a background layer because the NES couldn’t handle sprites that size, or Megaman himself having a separate sprite for his face because NES sprites can’t…