I remember when I stood in line for hours to get the Nintendo Wii, back in the days when we still had a console war. I had friends whose game console was their identity and one gleefully called when they heard I had purchased a Wii.
"Congratulations, Brian! I didn't know you had kids!" I told him I didn't, but I have a wife, and I like to buy her nice things. O.K, that last part didn't happen. I just cussed him out. Don't you hate it when you think of the best thing to say in an argument two decades later? But I didn't regret the purchase then, Nintendo has made some of my favorite games of all time, and Lord knows I'm not alone in that sentiment. I didn't regret my years playing Nintendo systems when they replaced the blood in Mortal Kombat with sweat.
But dammit, Nintendo, it is 2026, and I am tired of you ruining great games to preserve a "family- friendly" reputation. Part of entertaining a family is knowing that the mother, father, or older sister, are now mature enough to handle hearing a curse word or seeing someone's butt in a video game. Adhoc's hit Dispatch has launched on Switch platforms, and it doesn't allow players to turn off the game's pre-existing visual censorship setting.
I'm fully aware Nintendo is too busy rolling around in money to be very concerned what a video game blogger thinks of its public perception. But we're now in an era in which just about any game can appear on any console. Continuing this kind of unserious behavior will continue an environment in which if a game has any mature content, you'll want to buy it on literally any other console.
I'd rather play this on Xbox, and I don't think I've said that about a game in four years.