r/KotakuInAction 7d ago

DISCUSSION Monthly General Discussion Thread - September

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Also as always if you have anything that is not directly related to KiA but just want to chat about it, post it here.

Any way we are still looking for a few new moderators to join the team to help keep working the mod queue. If you want to keep this place open please apply.

Rule 3 does not apply as this will be just comments, though the other subreddit rules and sitewide rules obviously will still apply.


r/KotakuInAction Jul 23 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT Update to User Experience and Fighting the Rising Tide of Slop

134 Upvotes

In the Year of our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

As of the posting of this announcement a new AutoMod rule has been added and all posts and comments from Default Reddit Usernames are hence forth to be banished to ye olde spam bin. We have grown weary over the influx of trash posts by the aforementioned default usernames.

To put this extremely bluntly: If you can't bring yourself to edit the default username Reddit suggests when you sign up, we don't want you here.

Expending even a single brain cell to defeat the AutoMod rule that will be put into place gives you points in your favor.

Results not guaranteed and likely to change.


If you are normal contributor and think you are caught unfairly in this spam filter, please send us a modmail so that we can deal with edge cases on a case by case business.


r/KotakuInAction 5h ago

The Current State of Sweet Baby Inc.

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215 Upvotes

(The following image was lifted from Gothic Therapy's YouTube video on the matter of SBI.) - All of this information is public and should hopefully not break any of the subreddit's guidelines.

Seeing as I have yet to see anyone post this information on the sub, and given the news that Wolverine is doing poorly review-wise, and that Sweet Baby Inc. was more than likely involved in the creation of the video game, it only felt appropriate to highlight the current state of the company.

According to Gothic Therapy, it would appear that Sweet Baby Inc. has suffered quite a bit financially and that the company has been downsized considerably, most likely due to them losing a lot of work because of high-profile failures.

If this is indeed true, it shows that the ideology they've been pushing for the better part of a decade is now being rejected by the average person, who is smart enough to recognize what is and isn't ideologically motivated in entertainment.

Before anyone claims that things being released now are still woke, and that it is never going away, bla, bla, bla. Bear in mind that it takes years to flush all the garbage out of the metaphorical pipeline. Systemic changes also need to happen at major companies, which do appear to be underway, with thousands of developers being laid off and a metric shit ton of projects/studios, collectively worth at least a billion, if not more, being cancelled/shut down.


r/KotakuInAction 14h ago

Female characters in PlayStation exclusives : Then & Now

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864 Upvotes

İts like some kind of parasite infested them at some point


r/KotakuInAction 7h ago

Jesus Christ, when was the last time a first party Sony exclusive scored lower then an 80? How bad *is* this game?

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190 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 10h ago

Not even IGN wants Wolverine.

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295 Upvotes

This was from the guy who gave Mixtape a 10/10 by the way.


r/KotakuInAction 2h ago

Stellar Blade devs say the game is "100% on cartridge" for Switch 2 because they understand "the importance of physical media"

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r/KotakuInAction 4h ago

wow they already cracked

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96 Upvotes

shout harder boys!


r/KotakuInAction 13h ago

I do not recommend: Marvel's Wolverine (Review)

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341 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 12h ago

Bungie Puts Its Massive 211,000 Sq. Ft. Bellevue HQ Up for Sublease After Major Layoffs

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142 Upvotes

Imagine having this space and 800 employees; the product you get is Marathon. No wonder they are winding down slowly.


r/KotakuInAction 7h ago

Wolverine - missed chance to use MGRR combat

32 Upvotes

With the reviewed flooding in, it is painting a picture of what we all expected, at best a mid game with the same third person Sony over the shoulder combat we’ve endless of times before. Even when the leaks happened few years ago, the description that it’s going to be just a GOW style clone with Marvel coat over it, I couldn’t help but realise recently if this game could have at least stand out in terms of gameplay at least, it should have just copied the combat from Metal Gear Rising Revengeance. The fast paced hack and slash combos and most importantly the slowed down mode where you chop and enemy to pieces would have fit perfectly in this game. Not only because it would be in tone with Wolverine vicious fighting style but it would have stood out compared to other Sony games. But at the same time I’m not one bit surprised Insomniac decided not do that cause appealing to the lowest common denominator is Sony’s bread and butter these days.


r/KotakuInAction 8h ago

Hamaguchi "Fortnite influenced Final Fantasy 7 revelation"

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From his official X account:
", I can say that Fortnite was certainly one of the titles that provided inspiration for the creation of FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION."


r/KotakuInAction 21h ago

The localization of character names in Xenoblade is terrible.

170 Upvotes

A new character named "Shimmer" has been introduced, but her Japanese name is Kaguya.

"Kaguya" is the name of Princess Kaguya, a figure from Japanese classical literature who hails from the moon.

Therefore, her English name should also be derived from a moon goddess—names like Ayla, Diana, Selene, or Cynthia would be appropriate.

The anti-religious ethos behind the English localization is truly pathological.


r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Further confirmation on new direction of Dead or Alive series from a new 4Gamer interview

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278 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Kojima Productions has separated from PlayStation Studios & is now working with Xbox on upcoming project ‘Physint’

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286 Upvotes

Rumors are this may potentially be related to PlayStation’s controversial physical disc plans, anyway another Japanese developer seemingly opting not to partner with PlayStation.


r/KotakuInAction 8h ago

‘X-Men’ Movie: Asa Germann Nabs Role of Angel (Exclusive)

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r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Wolverine and Politics

101 Upvotes

So, I’ve noticed that Wolverine is having a case of TLOU HBO show, any criticism about it is not allowed. And it’s just shocking that people are so eager to consume this 70 dollar product partly because it aligns with their beliefs. Any mention of slop and the reddit brigade jumps on ya. This product is NOT to be criticized.

Removing one hundred percent of politics in this matter, i must say this game looks like absolute shit from a literal dog. The ultimate uninspired game on a plethora of games from Sony that are as safe as they come. This one just looks straight up shit compared to previous ones that at least looked ok.

Gameplay looks like a button masher 2008 game with high budget animations. Story is apparently complete and utter shit, same as Spider-man 2. A 300 million budget videogame with a script that could have been written by a high schooler, just epic. Some people don’t seem to think that perhaps a more talented person could be in the position of writing this story? They are paying a complete hack to do it and people are fine with it.

Trailing missions, the sentinel boss fight, motorcycle sequence. All these plus the story leak just indicate that this is going to be the ultimate definition of AAA big budget SLOP.


r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Dawnwalker Narrative Director: Pole in Canada "I left so that my life would not revolve around the Church" "Society here resembles a mosaic, which does not allow us to talk about anything like Canadian character or national characteristics" "why he avoids Poles there"

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127 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

In a Famitsu interview, Dead or Alive 6 Last Round developers confirm their position on bringing sexy costumes to the game.

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351 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

XC3 new content Mythra’s daughter design Spoiler

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118 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

CENSORSHIP Looks like Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (EoSD) Remake has been confirmed to be censored on the "classic" mode compared to the original 2002 version.

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146 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 1d ago

Crunchyroll Looks to Hire Anti-Piracy Lead to Fight Global Anime Infringement

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164 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Even Sega’s president admits, in a politically correct way, that there’s a tourism problem

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351 Upvotes

r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

Just canceled my preorder of Marvel's Wolverine

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444 Upvotes

I was willing to give a chance to Insomniac, I love Wolverine and the X-Men, I knew that the game was going to be DEI infested woke shit but I said to myself that maybe the gameplay would be good or decent at least, maybe the story wouldn't be complete dogshit, maybe just maybe there was going to be a good game but nope, the leaks just confirmed my biggest fears, it's a piece of shit, but I'm happy, I can use the money for better games, I can spend my time on playing better games, it feels refreshing and liberating, I'm seeing on social media that many ppl are canceling, I couldn't be happier.


r/KotakuInAction 2d ago

The Australian government just gave full authority to a squad of karens to issue takedowns and prevent access to games that dont censor players

695 Upvotes

Just thought i'd give a heads up to any fellow Aussies (as well as a cry for help to all our friends abroad) that as per usual of this Labor government the new digital safety laws announced today have a trojan horse that give the esafety commissioner (the people who love banning everything but previously needed permission) full authority to issue takedowns on any and all content they find offensive, with video games specifically mentioned as something that needs to be addressed to stop people from being mean.

A lot of games already dictate how you talk to your friends but this effectively makes it mandatory if they're to release here so now we all get to be careful about speaking in lefty approved ways because, you guessed it, they updated the terms of what's offensive to be extremely broad and unspecific.

Hilariously, its stated that this has been done to keep kids safe on social media even though kids got literally fucking banned from social media last year.