Great write up. The extremely weird conversation around the game almost entirely turned me off of it in the lead up to release, and the ensuing fallout over things like 20% less of Eve's chest being shown has been... Well, you've covered a lot of this. My only contribution here is that Eve doesn't really interest me from a design perspective in the way 2B or Bayonetta do. Those characters feels very stylized and intentional while still having a lot of baked-in sex appeal. Eve just feels like this generic nothing, and I only realized why after finding out the director of the game has long since abandoned his own artistic ambitions for AI generation. Eve makes a lot more sense when you realize it's coming from the mind of a man who has been churning out oiled-up big boobed anime girls in skin suits nonstop. I think they knew what audience they were courting.

Always wanted one of those huge Steel Battalion controllers.

hard to tell if you'll ever recover from this blunder.

@mayaheemayahoo People got real weird about MJ and how she's unattractive or whatever. Apparently this completely ruined the game for the gooners, making it nega-gooncore.

@Gruel As far as Sonic revisionism goes, nothing will be stranger to me than seeing fans turn on Sonic Colors and begin hoisting up Unleashed in its place.

@FallenGrace I got about halfway through getting all the emblems in the Steam version and had to uninstall it for some reason. Fun way to find out it wasn't backing saves up to the cloud. I think the Knuckles/Rouge levels are the easiest ones to A-rank because you can mostly cheese them by reading the first monitor clue and consulting a guide to figure out exactly where the emerald/key is. The two space levels, however, are total nightmares no matter what, but then everyone's Ark levels are hell to A-rank so, what're you gonna do.