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Keza MacDonald
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Formerly Kotaku UK's editor, now video games editor at the Guardian. I've spent 12 years writing about video games and gaming culture and co-authored a book called You Died: The Dark Souls Companion.

The first time I played this game was in a Gamescom demo in 2014. At that point, the cloud-enabled destructibility was also planned for the single-player. Read more

I’ve found it more generous than before in low-rank - high-rank is a different matter! Read more

It’s extremely complicated. Big weapons do the most base damage, yes, but then other weapons can get more hits in, there’s a difference between slashing and blunt damage, and armour skills change what potential damage each weapon can do. Honestly my advice is to forget about it and pick whichever one you find most fun Read more

You do, yes - they’re black and gold beetles, very easy to see. When you aim at a grapple point, it prompts you to press circle to grab onto it. Read more

The settings could do with some finessing - it’s currently a bit all-or-nothing when it comes to screen clutter. After I learned the systems I tried turning it all off, but there was info I still wanted to see. Hopefully Capcom will patch this. Read more

There’s usually a 50 minute limit on missions - much more generous. The beta was overwhelming, but it does a better job of explaining things gradually in the full game. It’s still not exactly accessible, but it’s less arcane than it has been previously. Read more

I have been hoping for YEARS that Crystal Chronicles (and Zelda Four Swords, the first and best one) would make a return somehow! It was such a pain to get enough people and equipment together to play them but man, when you did, it was amazing. Nintendo experimented a lot in multiplayer with the GameCube/GBA, and I Read more

Not necessarily. I played it on one controller with my partner and it’s one of the most memorable gaming experiences we’ve ever shared. Read more

Rich didn’t plagiarise - he purposefully avoided digging around the Bloodborne reddit etc to avoid twisting his own interpretation of the lore. It is possible for more than one person to come to similar conclusions with identical material, of course. Read more

It's doing pretty well, actually. Licensed model is a bit strange; would be good if there was an option to just all use Kinja, mostly for the comments. Right now you get fragmented discussions across both sites. Read more

It's random every time but I think it chooses from a selection of prefab situations to present you with. That's the impression I get, currently. Read more

Basically, yeah, that's the size of it - Kotaku UK is run by a different publisher that hasn't licensed Kinja, so uses totally different tech. Including Disqus. Read more