The canned keyboard controls are a load of hot garbage. Might as well try playing Top Gun with the Power Glove. I only beat the RC missions on PC using Keyboard/mouse by entirely redoing the controls to something that makes sense.

Thankfully, by the time this game got ported to Android/iOS the RC controls were much…

Masamune Shirow’s work tends to have girls, guns, and deep philosophical questions.

Yeah, that’s a core problem of the source material and, to a lesser degree, SAC.  That said, the Major herself is never sexualized by her coworkers or the plot, only the camera (and in some cases she is very much de-sexualized, like when she’s partially dis-assembled).  SAG generally shakes that impulse most of them,…

Weirdly, I liked SAC for making the Major sexy. Masamune Shirow is of the super-oversexed school of drawing ladies (boobs as long as a torso that flop in different directions), and it’s a minor plot point that the Major’s body from the outside looks like a standard sexbot model, souped up on the inside with military…

The original manga has an extended hardcore lesbian sex sequence which has so little to do with the plot that it was cut from the original English release and most readers didn’t notice anything was missing.

Made me think of Witcher 3 with multiple ass shots of Yennifer before we see her face. In that moment all I could see was “oh man, this game was made for straight men, and I am not supposed to be here.” Yeah sure, let’s talk about religion, authoritarianism, family, racism, and such but also, did you see the barmaid’s…