![]() ![]() One channel, “ Girlfriend Reviews,” criticized the game and accused it of dealing in anti-semitic imagery, but was hounded off of Reddit for broadcasting it all the same. The culture war surrounding “Hogwarts Legacy” got particularly hot on Twitch, where it became the platform’s most-streamed game ever and where viewers expressed disappointment or outrage with influencers who played it. Even though NPR reviewer Brittany Vincent calls it an “early contender for Game of the Year,” she acknowledges that, “this trip to Hogwarts comes with some heavy baggage.” While “Rowling was not directly involved in the game's production (though her creative agency was), the controversy over statements and actions she's made opposing trans rights has led to ongoing calls for a boycott.” īut while “Elden Ring” sparked instant acclaim, “Hogwarts Legacy” fueled an ongoing debate over “Harry Potter” creator J. That fact invites comparison to 2022’s year-defining February release, “Elden Ring ,” which also sold 12 million copies in its opening weeks. The game earned nearly $1 billion and shipped more than 12 million units in its first two weeks. “Hogwarts Legacy” proved to be as big (and contested) a debut as the buzz around its presale numbers suggested it would be. It’s been my busiest month yet editing NPR’s gaming column. Games)įebruary has come and gone, leaving massive games and a smoldering controversy in its wake. Since last time I posted, I also learned that there's a spinoff called MasuMon Kids (for the PS1 and maybe Saturn) as well as apparently a novel and/or a manga-both of those seem to be fairly recent.'Hogwarts Legacy' has been the year's biggest and most controversial video game by far. I'm still tempted to try collecting all the Master of Monsters games. ![]() I have a few that I might be tempted to review sometime, but I don't have any comprehensive series knowledge so doing an article, at least doing it solo, is out. In general, how many hex-based strategy games are covered on this site? I know of Vantage Master and. Making it a point to pick up Iron Storm since my poor Saturn rarely gets any use (incidentally I'm glad Nintendo fanboys like the AVGN never heard of Daisenryaku because you know they would love to hear that Sega liked to focus on the Nazis). I'm guessing there might be differences between the PC-98 releases and the later Windows ones? How does this hook text machine translation thing work? What emulator do I use (since I assume I need an emulator for this)? Military strategy as a genre is usually entirely sanitized of warcrimes and such, although there are games where you conduct nuclear strikes or massive aerial bombings. Panzer General had originally problems in Germany because of the manual. The Saturn installment is an exception.Ĭheck out this page for translation patches. The Advanced Daisenryaku subseries that Iron Storm is part of is Sega's WWII adaption which normally focuses very much on Germany as a force. I was going to write " English release", but one of the first games already had English menus. The first western release was for the Saturn by Working Designs as Iron Storm. Which is why so many are actually available on consoles. In the genre of historical military strategy, you can probably find the most accessible games in the Daisenryaku series. On Daisenryaku.: This struck me always as a more serious Advanced Wars. The PSP game has a PS2 equivalent for which a translation patch is available. On PC-98 and Windows you have tools to hook text and use machine translation. Master of Monsters originated on computers, most installments have been made available for Windows I believe. I don't know Japanese, but I'd be willing to try and acquire the games in the Master of Monsters series (because I'm more into fantasy than historical simulation) and send them off to someone who knows Japanese and/or has Japanese computers to play them on, and play editor on an article. It's starting to sound like these two series need HG101 articles. Getting back to Master of Monsters, I was just ebay searching and saw someone selling a PC9801 game called Master of Monsters II, and apparently this is a case (like Hydlide and Eggerland Mystery) where some installments only exist on Japanese PCs. ![]() though I seem to remember it was actually optional and you could play the Allies if you wanted, but the title makes it clear you're supposed to be the Nazis). I can think of precisely one game where you do, and as it happens, its a game that I just saw a wiki somewhere claim was "inspired" by Daisenryaku-Panzer General (which spawned a series and, somehow, actually saw release in Germany despite, you know, you play as the Nazis. The only placed its mentined here on HG101 (besides the forums) is in an article on the Sega Ages re-releases, where the author said that a game where you play as the nazis would never fly in the west. Heh, ran into an irony while looking up Daisenryaku. ![]()
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