Hyrule and its surroundings tend to see technology rise and fall, with Link occurring during a fall. Spirit Tracks heavily involved a train, Skyward Sword had technology up to antigravity in the backstory, and Breath of the Wild has killer robots. Even Links Awakening has a lot of modern day (okay, 90s day) tech…

She has a personality. She’s a scared woman who is way out of her depth, as 99% of us would be, but between encouragement from Leon and her own personal willpower manages to persevere, and is a stronger person by the end. Ashely takes pleasure in the little victories (look for the fist pumps), she tries to look on the…

Exactly. There are numerous times during regular gameplay where she’ll actively help you defeat enemies if you give her the opportunity, but with no prompting needed. 

As far as hot takes go, this is more like lukewarm oatmeal that you almost reheat, but shrug and eat so you can get on with your day.

I’ve never quite understood the apparent moral division some see between eating a culture’s food and wearing a culture’s clothing. Why is one appropriation and the other is hip and sexy?  

When will Google realize the massive harm they’re doing to their brand with the constant churn of products and services that get rolled out only to be abandoned, and enforce a culture change? It’s like outside of their core advertising and data collection routes, nothing can survive.

Oh good, now there’s a specific neighborhood to trash the next time the CCP stirs up anti-Japanese sentiment to distract from domestic issues.

I’m surprised that detective isn’t in there, considering how large a chunk of his old job that is.

What features are available to be modded depends largely on how the game is built. Something like walking speed might be a variable in a file that can be unpackaged, edited, and repackaged, or it might be hardcoded in a way that trying to edit it breaks the game.

What’s baffling is the sheer tokenism of this ‘controversy’. And I mean that in a fairly literal sense; looking at a roster of 30 incredibly diverse people and saying “but where’s [specific variation of the human genome]!?” is equivalent to saying “I’m ignoring all the other shiny things you have here in front of me,…

I mean, it’s nice to have Kaplan confirm this instead of obfuscating, but I also thought it was obvious. We’ve ‘known’ Overwatch 2 was their game plan for over a year now, and that it was pulling resources away. The still mystifying part is why OW2 is so lackluster, generally feeling like an upgrade collection rather…

The natives call themselves the Yecht Fradí.

I’d rather see a studio stretch its limits and stumble than stagnate. Greedfall is apparently selling well, so hopefully their next outing will have the budget to meet their vision. Or maybe they’ll do do some Witcher 1 style cleanup.

I gather that Heather is trying to say that colonialism is bad and that the game doesn’t take a firm, consistent stance of agreeing with that statement, so it is also bad. Which is directly counter to the desire to also have good storytelling involving complex characters with nuance who are trying to do what they…

Most reviews I’ve seen have expressed the exact opposite impression.

And their name is Heather.

“It’s not. I can’t stress that enough. It simply isn’t. It. Is. Not. Doing. That.” You don’t exactly seem open to the possibility. It was pretty clear in your initial piece that you had already decided how to judge it, since you demanded thematic payoff 10 hours in.

Is an article citable as reporting or opinion when it mixes facts with hypothetical statements by an official?

Except that the writer was 10 hours into a game that’s being reported as having a 30-40 hour target runtime. That’s barely enough time for introductions to all the factions and major players, let alone thematic payoffs.

Game: “Nuance! People are people who are generally trying to do the right thing in their (1600s based) society’s framework., which means some things that are horrifying to us modern folk or to others around them. Road to hell and all. Nevertheless, pushing against that is extremely hard to do, let alone successfully;…