Frees up some space on my christmas list, at least.

Gonna be buying Bayonetta 3 used, and won't at all be buying the prior Bayos on switch.

Have we learned anything about the latter besides people combing her Twitter follows?

Mostly her posting weird biblical ranting as part of all of this?

I find anyone who slips into deep south religious ranting AND following literally the entirety of the trump family is probably not someone worth my time.

Ah

There’s also the fact that she turned people against Hale and lied about the money the franchise has made

That too, yes.

Basically, nobody involved in this comes out looking good.

And I'm sorry that Jennifer Hale even has a tangential finger in all this, because HOO, this is a major shit show.

(That finger being the new voice for Bayo. Literally nothing else. Jennifer Hale has no dog in this fight and deserves no shade whatsoever.)

I’m willing to give Kamiya some benefit of the doubt because he got this way on Twitter because people kept bombarding him with racist shit

Having followed Kamiya for a while...

He's always been eccentric, but I wrote it off to eccentricity.

It didn't take much of a step to realize that no, he really is just a man child.

Remember, I've been on this train since the ORIGINAL Devil May Cry.

I dunno. I’m not saying I approve of his behavior.

the guy's never been what I'd call a bastion of good character.

Basically my emotions are complicated

But at the end of the day, I just. I don’t really trust Taylor has been honest about all this.

Oh, I trust Taylor LESS than I trust Kamiya.

And that’s worse than being a raging idiot on social media

But Kamiya is proving that I've been hitched to the wrong horse.

It's entirely possible for neither of them to be right here.

I'm basically looking at Kamiya the same way everyone's been looking at Inafune.

"Why did I think the success of my favorite game had anything to do with you?"

I'm not saying not to buy Bayo 3, oh no, far from it.

But I am saying that unless something drastically changes, buying it used is just fine for me.

(And frankly, after Bayo 2... I'm not sure that I'd want to be buying it new. Bayo 2 wasn't terrible, but it was nowhere near as good as Bayo 1.)

I don’t know if I agree with that, but to each their own

But I’ve looked at the union rates, checked what Hale herself has been saying and liking, and comparing it to stuff like Taylor’s quote about the success of the franchise and what she said about how long she worked

And I’m not sure Platinum did anything unethical here. The problem is that union rates are so low in the first place, but that’s on the union and voice actors have to keep fighting to improve things

Because 4000 is what one would typically get for a role like this in the time Taylor would have said it would take to record

Oh, don't get me wrong.

I'm NOT saying Taylor is right.

I’m not saying you are. I’m just explaining my position

What I am saying is... Platinum has screwed the pooch REPEATEDLY the past few years, and with leadership like Kamiya?

I'm not even sure it's worth my time and money.

There are more games coming out in the next three months than have come out ALL YEAR that I'm interested in.

That’s fair. But do you see my pov at least?

Never... said I didn't?

I just like to make sure I’m understood sorry

anyway here’s a photo of a bear

It's good to note that Hale has repeatedly liked tweets indicating she's under NDA, and that imply she probably didn't know why the replacement happened until recently. So that's a clue-in.

Other than her, I'm comfortable calling this an ESH and skipping the game for now.