Richard, you're the reason I still visit Kotaku. God bless (figuratively) unless you're religious, then it's literal.

This reminds me: canonically speaking, where is Persona Q positioned in respect to Ultimax? Do we need to play it before or after? Or is it standalone?

Essentially, yes. Start with Persona 3 (it's brilliant). Persona 4 is set in a different place with different characters, but their stories over-arch with the characters from Persona 3 by the time you get up to Persona 4 Arena (which features the cast from both Persona 3 and Persona 4, but is set after both original…

Richard buddy! Can you please, please, please with sugar on top, confirm whether Igor has a new English VA?

A video on YouTube was posted in which the uploader claimed it was the English voice track to Ultimax, and Igor had a different English-speaking voice actor. Which is bizarre considering it was the Japanese VA…

I went through and read through all of this to see what the issue was. Richard is right in the method he employed, Batwayne. Keep in mind, the self-proclaimed interpretation's implication is that it's subjective, so it isn't Richard's fault for how your mind perceives a purely stylistic preference.

There is no black &…

Richard, could you please confirm whether the English voice actor for Igor has indeed been changed since his last performance? This YouTube video has been propagating around with the rumour that this is the new voice actor. But he sounds quite bad.

Hmmm, I'm not so sure if they're so much stupid as they are offended. I'm Australian, and I suppose it does bother us when people compare us to New Zealanders, or even say our Aussie accents sound just like English accents. So from that standpoint, I can understand to a degree albeit I wouldn't be anywhere near as…

Hmmm, I'm not so sure if they're so much stupid as they are offended. I'm Australian, and I suppose it does bother us when people compare us to New Zealanders, or even say our Aussie accents sound just like English accents. So from that standpoint, I can understand to a degree albeit I wouldn't be anywhere near as…

I agree; it was pretty bad for what it was.

If you want a good animated direct-to-DVD film, I highly recommend Batman: Under the Red Hood.

Hmm. Well, I'm not saying this is a consequence of this at all, more of a semi-related aside. But the lead character artist from Naughty Dog recently left to join Avalanche Studios.

I like the evolution over the last decade-or-so, but the scale bothers me. The world and map just seemed so much livelier and adventurous before it was 3D. The camera angles make everything feel a lot smaller; the world a lot smaller. Almost like I'm a mouse running through a maze.

Earlier games conveyed the illusion…

I get what you mean: the manga looks like it was just hand-drawn. Which, well, it was... But that's not the point! I shouldn't be able to tell that it's just a bunch of stylised pencil lines forming vaguely coherent shapes on paper, that's distracting. I should be deeply immersed and tricked by the illusion of…

A female bro would be a sis, no? Or is it a trans-gendered bro? ..

Ahh, I remember the good old days when 360 was out and their fanboys were the obscene, obnoxious atrocities of today. I guess everything has its time. I wished the 360 fanboys away, but they just kept coming..

The interior isn't rendered in 3D. It's a visual technique based on a real-time reflection shader called Interior Mapping. I think it's a neat little trick that beats the flat, static, 2D maps we see in many games' windows.

Richard, does Hollow Fragment support trophies now that it's making its debut on the Vita?

Richard, I'm a little confused by the review. It sounds very much like an ambivalent one, which are always hard for me to derive a yes or no out of when it comes to deciding whether I should make the purchase.

If you had to give this game a rating out of 10, what would it be?

I played the first Fate/Extra game on PSP…

I think you're taking the editor a little too fundamentally, Norm. It goes without saying any imitator isn't going to precisely replicate the features of the original, but this is making its statement because it replicates the aesthetic well enough for someone to not necessarily make the distinction had they not been…