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Yazuka Kiwami 3 Director Defends Casting Alleged Sexual Assaulter

Yazuka Kiwami 3 Director Defends Casting Alleged Sexual Assaulter https://ift.tt/igaM6xe Yazuka Kiwami 3 director Ryosuke Horii justified the controversial casting of actor Teruyuki Kagawa as Goh Hamazaki in a recent interview, saying, "We tried to think of someone who makes you go, 'This guy's a creep.'" Horii spoke to Japanese outlet GAME Watch (independently translated by IGN ) about the casting, which has drawn criticism because Kagawa has been accused of sexual assault. Horii said the team made their decision based on what performance they would most like to see in the game. "Hamazaki is a sleazy, persistent, and militant yakuza, right?" Horii said. "Since he isn't an explosive character like Kanda, when we tried to think of someone who makes you go, 'This guy's a creep,' naturally it was Kagawa--that was the main factor. Kagawa's acting is fun to watch. Even when he's chopping a pig's feet off with a chef's k...

Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On

Let's Talk About The Starfield Discourse | Spot On https://ift.tt/SjCuW9w

Sigh. It’s been a long week on the internet.

The Starfield review embargo is up and discourse around it has been running wild--just look at the comments on our review. But in the midst of all this chatter, we can't help but think about how much it distracts us from us having meaningful conversations about games and truly enjoying them. Though someone else's opinion on a game can't take away any of the joy you experience while playing it, going into a game with anger, defensiveness, or cynicism can absolutely sour the time you spend with it.

This week on Spot On, Tam and Lucy discuss the damaging impact negative discourse can have and why focusing only on this negativity and feeding into the console wars can take away the excitement of new releases. The two also discuss Baldur’s Gate 3, and how, for a while, that game was swallowed by discourse, to the detriment of the discussion around it.

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