While I agree this is a shame - I am trying to think about it from Nintendo’s perspective:

“It really is a disappointing turn of events.” - I don’t think you can call it a turn of events when what happened was EXACTLY what everyone knew would happen. I’m sorry - I’m sure they’re super cool guides and every ounce a labor of love - but unless you get pre-approval from Nintendo (in the form of a legally…

I mean, stop trying to pull one over on Nintendo. Every week this site posts something where it’s like “Nintendo shuts down [X]” like, Protip: If you are working on something based off Nintendo property and you are not working for Nintendo, stop.

You should learn to accept criticism in good faith.

I swear on my life this is the first time I have ever been mean to a Kotaku author - typically I respect you guys and think the commenters are dumb and mean. But I think it’s well-earned this time:

So then you get to play Smash with a dentist just for fun

Enable items you coward!

“ No I don’t have to do that, I haven’t even finished GTA 5 yet.”

You can just tell us what you’re talking about instead of this “Dude trust me” vague nonsense

Now nobody can deny that videogames aren’t art, a way to launder money by people who don’t care about it.

Bialik isn’t “really smart”, though, and that’s extremely evident from interviews with her. If you think her neuroscience qualification means that she is, well, sorry mate, I know people with better qualifications that that, who are frankly, cretins in all regards outside their actual field. One of them I know IRL…

Even by the numbers in their own article, the Palestinian death toll was twenty times the Israeli death toll, but some apologists still decided to play the whataboutism card and “all lives matter”ed their way into having the opening words “Palestinian civilians” changed to just “civilians”. It seems they won their…

Everyone’s ignoring the obvious host solution. The same ideal host for the Academy Awards.

We need a host we can see.

The whole purpose of spoilers is so people can make informed decisions about the way they spend their money. I'm happier not dropping $25 on a game that will absolutely make me feel gross

Until it’s not and we realize who they really were all along.

Socialist

If this game lives up to that presentation, it might actually make up for how terrible Sword and Shield were. I still have some issues (that Beautify just floating there made me facepalm), but they’re mostly nitpicks.

The best fucking thing in the whole video was the (i assume) net cafe worker sweeping with a broom on a hoverboard

Agreed. Matthias is just a sore loser. “Screw you guys I’m going home!”