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I joined a couple of friends on their podcast, H&K Game Experience this week and we talked about Breath of the Wild. It was my first time doing a podcast so it took me a little bit to find my footing. Grab the link below to listen to us talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of BotW and what's next for the franchise.

Following the crash landing of Solo at the box office you may have read of “Star Wars fatigue.” It’s a phantom illness that is being blamed for audiences’ alienation of affection for Star Wars movies after 41 years of wedded bliss. The fans are not tired of Star Wars—they are in an uproar over the direction that the president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy has taken the franchise. The fans are centrally angry that after 30 years of waiting for the continuation of Luke Skywalker’s story, he never saw any action and died at the end (was killed by director/writer Rian Johnson). The other issue with fans has been the political shift from focus on authoritarianism/militarism toward identity and party politics. Snoke is Trump, Poe Dameron’s mutiny represents the Bernie Bros, and the leadership of the Resistance are all elderly, affluent women (Clinton, Warren, Pelosi). continued after break...

Kotaku posted a story recently covering a Q&A with Iwata in which he argued that the big special thing about the Wii U "gamepad" was asymmetric gameplay and that they simply failed to sell gamers on how cool that is.