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Kirk Hamilton
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Kotaku Editor-at-Large

Yeah, definitely something I noticed. From the review: Read more

Off the top of my head, some other options could be to restrict the augmentations you install and leave a few completely uninstalled, or to restrict yourself to a single type of weapon or to melee attacks only. That kind of thing. Read more

I can’t say for sure but I bet Luke will check it out! Read more

I played on the hardest difficulty and still found it too easy. There IS an even harder difficulty that unlocks after you win, but that’s just the original hard difficulty with permadeath. Which is an enjoyably deranged option but doesn’t really do much for me.
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There’s really only one fight that could be considered a boss fight, and while it’s not amazing, it’s closer to the reworked boss fights in the updated version of Human Revolution, i.e. it can be approached any of a number of different ways. Read more

Nixxes did the PC port and some of the high-res textures and text in the environments are just... hnng Read more

Yeah, that’s still a thing. I made it work bc I’m going lethal on my NG+ and have already unlocked basically everything, but it’d make it harder to go the other way around. You still get a lot of augs quickly though, particularly if you play smart. Not a huge deal. Read more

NG+ has been great, and I’ve been enjoying it more than I even thought I would. Better than the first time through, though that could just be related to how I play this kind of game. Read more

Not that many. Some of the thugs do, I guess? It’s more people than you’d think, given that they’ve had an additional ten years for everyone to figure out what a bad idea forehead tattoos are. Read more

A “choice to alter his destiny,” huh? They must’ve cut the epilogue where he realizes that the forest is pretty boring and he’s actually going to go kill thousands of people after all. Read more

I can’t look you in the eye because we’re on opposite sides of the internet, but I can say that I really don’t think it’d be wise to prune a successful site with a staff as small as ours. So, seems unlikely to me, but then anything’s possible. Read more

Leigh Alexander, because she is and will always be one of the best critics in the game. Read more

I thiiiiink that was from my Hopscotch Pilgrim phase. But I can’t be certain. Read more