Patrick Klepek's saved articles
R.I.P.
Geez. My condolences to the family. Read more
A great person in the industry passed on way too young. Rest in peace, Joe. Read more
No boobs slider no god. Read more
I totally get both sides of the argument on the censorship/alteration of XCX. I’m not about to say anyone is ‘wrong’ for feeling how they do; however, I do hope that the controversy over this game doesn’t seriously reflect in sales numbers and cause Nintendo to not localize niche games like it in the future. It's… Read more
I have to admit, I went into XCX expecting to hate Lin but she’s got some of the best jokes in the whole game. Threatening to eat Tatsu never, ever gets old. Read more
I feel the same way. Nobody in the west wants to see a 13 year in old in a bikini, except people that make us very very concerned. I really don’t even understand it from an eastern perspective, to be honest, but that is the definition of cultural differences. Read more
> Lin sounds older in the US version because they thought it would sound better; a young voice over the course of a very long RPG “might have sounded grating on the player’s ears.” Read more
Favorite part of this is being able to get to the site direct from the game on the Wii U AND THEN actually playing the level you want to book mark. And it just starts back in Mario Maker! Read more
Shamelessly plugging my own profile because NO ONE SAID I COULDN’T OK Read more
This is exactly what the game needed to make hunting courses less of chore! There’s one feature missing that I thought was kind of a no-brainer though: why can’t we search for courses by name? I don’t usually pay very close attention to Course IDs, and it would be handy for finding that one specific course I can’t… Read more
One of the things I, as a more traditional artist, envy about video game design, is this ability to make the viewer/gamer complicit in an uncomfortable act. That’s an amazing power to wield, and it seems to have been wielded expertly. Read more
So basically, gaming has caught up to the narrative complexity and sleight of hand seen in the world of novels and film for decades, and people can’t grasp it? Read more
The entire time, I assumed this was all fiction. I still think it is. The point was to make you think it was real, proven a success by the likes of this non-story. Read more