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Tim Rogers
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I make videos for Kotaku. I make video games for myself and my friends. I like writing fiction. Someday I will publish a novel. Who knows!

First of all, it makes me very sad that you would presume I did not play the Octopath Traveler demo the minute it went live lol Read more

I played Skyrim VR for an hour and was perfectly fine with using an analog stick to move — the right analog stick rotates your facing direction in that game, though it does it in 22.5-degree increments, which is not disorienting or vomity at all. (Wait, that sounded like I was being sarcastic. I was not. I promise to Read more

I love Skyward Sword, and I even liked the motion controls—recalibrating the MotionPlus every thirty seconds kinda sucked, though. By “suitably altered” I just mean . . . maybe let it be an option for people who want to play handheld . . . or make it work appropriately well in portable mode . . . Read more

Also it is worth noting that, at the time Lost Odyssey came out, Ted Woolsey, the original translator of Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger for Squaresoft, was the head of first party publishing at Microsoft . . . who published Lost Odyssey. I’m pretty sure Woolsey wasn’t responsible for Lost Odyssey having a good Read more

Those short stories from Lost Odyssey were written by an actual author—Kiyoshi Shigematsu—and translated by an actual translator—Jay Rubin, who translated many novels by Haruki Murakami! They’re all really good . . . !! In Japan they were published as (huge) short story collection. I love it and I love that game . . . Read more

I find it really hard to believe that this dude isn’t pulling off a Really Good Joke . . . given that I mention having lived in Japan sort of a lot lol (I mean, it was like 25% of my life . . .) Read more

it took me SO LONG to realize what he was referring to with the “WHY NOT”. like, first of all, it’s pretty weird that this guy has some kind of a harpoon that can, by being embedded inside a monster, cause that monster to manifest and then drop a drink suitable for a human Read more

Hmm, that’s true. Here, I’ll type up some subtitles for you: Read more

yes! sort of a lot. i’m probably going to stream it tomorrow (with the japanese voices downloaded). Read more

i think they flatten when she’s mad, and she’s just mad pretty much all the time Read more

never underestimate the power of a good (or even half-decent) structure!! Read more

don’t die! my bank account NEEDS you to engage with the last eighteen minutes of The Original Video Content Read more

hey! yeah! see, i tried to go with a bottom line that would appeal to likers and haters alike. Read more

if you like either of those even a little bit, and you already own a nintendo switch . . . just buy it dude Read more

thanks for watching the whole video . . . another 23 Minutes of sweet User Engagement . . . Read more

PS everybody get Dandy Dungeon and Million Onion Hotel, both *AVAILABLE NOW* for iOS and android Read more