Seriously, I'm a few hours into Three Houses and I was like "...wait, he has a voice?" This protagonist is incredibly silent.

You’re really not missing anything. The combat, world design, and especially plot feel like a huge step down from KH2. The pacing is probably the worst I’ve ever seen in a AAA game, with both heroes and villains commenting on their lack of direction for the entire first half. And it doesn’t feel resolved in the end.…

Agreed. The irony being that I will put off similar micromanagement tasks in real life for weeks...

Kingdom Hearts III, Six Months Later: “...oh fuck, I totally forgot I played that.”

Thanks for the great article. For most of my adult life I’ve dealt with stress, anxiety, and depression by diving into what I’ve realized lately is a group of games that scratches a very specific itch. I’ve been especially stressed this summer, and just the other day I realized that my desire to focus on replaying…

To be clear, I completely agree with your take. The Inhumans always felt like knockoff mutants with the serial number filed off. The relatable parables of racism and the feelings of being the ‘other’ were replaced by nonsense royal melodrama. Outside of a couple of exceptions, like Karnak and (if you count her) Ms…

You need to find a microwave to reheat that hot take.

Came here to make the same comment. Why are we interested in supporting currency from Facebook, a company whose entire purpose seems to be to disrupt the world into its worst impulses and try to profit at every step?

I’d love for the movie to build up to the final climactic scene, the action ramps up, everything comes to a crescendo, and...cut to live action, where the show’s creator snaps awake from an alcohol-induced sleep on the floor. He looks around, wildly confused, calms down, and rolls over to continue his sleep. Cut to…

Considering my historically shitty luck with console issues (360 RROD, PS3 yellow light, PS2 disk read errors, etc) and the fact that I have a launch day Switch that I’ve used almost daily and predominantly in handheld mode, I’m genuinely baffled that I don’t have this issue. I feel bad for everyone who does though -…

Spider-Many.

If you felt that way (which was similar to my initial reaction), then don’t watch End of Evangelion. Sure, it technically resolves the plot, but it does it in the most unnecessarily cynical and misanthropic way possible. Any growth that Shinji has in the last two episodes of the series is wiped away in favor of making…

I’ve certainly experienced all three of those for most of my life, and I empathized with him up to a point - that point being EoE, at which point he loses any measure of sympathy. I also disagree with the show’s overwhelming focus on Shinji in favor of the fate of the world and other characters.

On the other hand, money continues to become a more abstract concept than it already was when I handed someone weird paper with implied value in order to purchase goods and services. In the modern age, it could make just as much sense to show your budget in colored bars (along the lines of what Mint shows), where you…

Also, consider that something has changed on their end. After graduating college I got an interview at this amazing firm in NYC through a family friend, so I flew there and had what I thought was a fantastic interview. They said they were finalizing some things, but I would hear back within a week or so. I waited a…

Sure, in everyday life that kind of traumatic situation doesn’t have a textbook ending, but I don’t think that should be used as an excuse for an unfinished story. Plenty of other media tells similarly fraught and emotional tales while actually giving them resolution. I’m all for vague yet emotionally thoughtful and…

Great to know! You’ve definitely sold me on them, so I’ll check them out !

Having never seen any of the Rebuild movies, and having just watched the series and End of Evangelion for the first time and come away pretty disappointed with both endings, how do these new movies compare? I’m still fascinated by the world and the broad themes, but the deeply cynical skew and tone of EoE (and…

I got mine off Etsy, but I think they’re also on Amazon.

I know...I’m dreading that one reveal where they bring out the hottest Switch Lite that honors their history while looking damn good, and then I have to explain to my wife why I need two Switches.