ManateeofSteel

Morning Jason. I have two questions!

• Out of the two books and their respective stories/reportings - which has been the hardest to write? Be it because of lack of resources or just overall not comfortable writing about?

• Another one would be, As a journalist, it's obvious that you would want to report the news. But you once mentioned on twitter how you don't always report all the tips you get from upcoming games, like For Honor... so my question is - what metric do you use to decide whether you should report something or not? I know you're more focused towards the industry and workplaces with Bloomberg but that's what I'm mostly curious about.

Keep up the great work

mmm I see, I honestly didn't know that about the second book! Have been in the dark about it, but was planning to buy it day one regardless. And on that comment, I do remember the GoW leak haha! The accidental concept art and the artist who had to nuke the post. Thanks for replying.

Then I have to ask, what would you say was your biggest influence for the second book? Did you write it like a journalist on a big nonKotaku story in a factual way, or is there a particular style you adopted?

Hi Mike, first and foremost, I must say I love your work and I remember reading some time ago that you took a lot of inspiration from Ghibli's works for Avatar, especially Princess Mononoke. So I have a few questions for you:

• what other inspirations helped shape Avatar?

• what are your favorite series/movies?

• are you familiar with Kurosawa's movies?

• do you stay in contact with Bryan and/or any of the Avatar crew?

thank you for doing this, keep up the good work. Didn't know about Rebel Genius, guess I'll have to pick it up on friday. And I have to say, Avatar is one of the reasons why I'm studying Engineering in Digital Animation now, I want to make animated movies and Avatar, Dean Deblois as well as Ghibli have inspired me greatly

I understand your frustration, but may I suggest a few things I did? I'm in college so I understand to a certain extent that sometimes there's just not enough time to play a game, and the Souls franchise is time consuming. Quick casual sessions are not very effective. So what I do is: learn. I scout the place, get as many items as I can, if something looks suspicious I leave it for later when I have less souls or more flasks. Learn the timings, bosses aren't insanely hard nor they recquire a specific level. Sometimes my "pacifist run" aka cheese it through the level running away from everything helps me find the boss. DS3 is particularly forgiving with amount of bonfires. There are TONS of them, look for them so you can quick travel easier. Although in Lodrick at the beginning there are like 3 iirc. Look for shortcuts so if you die, you don't have to go all the way around again. DS is about improving yourself more than just your levels/equipment

Really? I think it's the easiest Souls/Bloodborne game to date. In fact, I think Bloodborne is the hardest. And I've never been good at those games