A) Of course the game is rushed to hell; according to Centro Leaks the game was still unfinished a month before the release date. They had little-to-no QA testing time.

Biggest worry by far is that it will be another console port of a mobile port of a console game, it keeps happening and it keeps sucking when that happens. 

You might need to do what I did, go find all the energy tanks in the game and then come back; all of them should be reachable now.

I will say, about the characters though I disagree; there are rumors that Garfield will be DLC, Fairly Odd Parents and Jimmy Neutron are sure to follow, and the devs have said “Even Superman is not off the table”.

I hyper-agree that the competitive appeal will not translate to widespread appeal. I personally didn’t get it because it looks *too* competitive; it looks like a game where if you haven’t played 29372 hours you will get dunked on online, and for all of its rollback netcode if the online isn’t fun to a casual player,…

It seems like a good game, but it’s not gonna compete with Smash. It doesn’t have what it takes to replace either Melee or Ultimate (and I’m not convinced anything ever could so that is not to Nicktoons’ discredit). It will be its own thing separate from the two, its own event with its own community (and plenty of…

Kotaku writers in particular use that kind of sarcasm to punch up; read the sentence as “Were it not for the fact that Nabisco is mistreating its employees, this collaboration would have made us happy with the company, but because they are, we are not indeed happy.”

Way I see it, if the $25 cookie didn’t sell, but the 13,000 one has bids, it’s probably a money laundering scheme.

Without Nintendo solo-backing these games, these games don’t exist. Everyone at Microsoft and Sony rejected the games but Nintendo believed in them and fully financed them. I say, given that, that it’s fair for Nintendo to claim sole profits. And that it’s fair for Microsoft and Sony to never see a penny from these…

I’m still baffled that Cardi B didn’t get cancelled after admitting to drugging, robbing, and assaulting people. Seeing her like normal on a site like Kotaku which leans heavily left, which typically implies condemning people who have committed crimes like that, has to be lack of knowledge at best and hypocritical at…

“We want to hear about transformative reform within the company”

Basculegion might not evolve anymore due to a higher survival rate in migrating Basculin due to conservation efforts, so less souls of the damned to go around, and even if modern Stantler don’t evolve, the species survives even without the additional form, like axolotls (which evolved to never transition from their…

As someone with that exact body type, I really dislike these options. The Olympics are about physical excellence, seeing an overweight person in them feels like an insult to them and like a condescension/mockery on us overweight people, while also feeling like it’s trying to enable our self-destructive health habits.

That’s odd, but I think I can see why. If rumors are to be believed, they’re reconsidering the whole “Nintendo Direct” idea because they’re not sure how much interest there actually is in the concept anymore, which is why they went well over a year without a full direct recently and have only broken the streak the one…

Okay as someone who hates Donald Trump, why is it our business if a game developer chooses to spend their money backinng up the politician they like? If conservatives bash someone for financially backing Joe Biden, it is (or at least I find it) distasteful, but it’s hypocritical to suddenly not be okay with an…

Reminds me of when the Pokemon “Cofagrigus” was unable to be traded in Pokemon because of the three letters in its name that happen to coincide with a slur. I feel like that got more kids to learn the word in question because they couldn’t trade a pokemon and had to ask their parents why. (Other pokemon that couldn’t…

Yeah, exactly this. If the options are “nothing is done at all” or “we will censor anything and everything”, it’s a lot better to have nuanced options. People have different words they use within their communities to different meanings. Terms of endearment are often based on insults after all.

The main fanslating team independently decided not to get the last chapter so... probably will be a few days before it leaks

Well, the fanslating team did specifically confirm they wouldn’t do the last chapter for love of the series and even set up a subreddit for people to vent their salt about it so legal action at this point seems pretty moot tbh

Pokemon eggs are not loot boxes. Even if you were to spend a million dollars on coins, you can’t ever have more than 12 eggs in incubators, you can’t skip the 2-12km walk, you can’t open a ton in a mad dash for a rare pokemon, you can’t even choose which type of egg you get. Heck, you can’t even buy eggs at all.