I think it prudent to point out this post was reblogged immediately by a "Cozy Game Bot"

I think you should, especially if you touched on how skewed the marketing in gaming is toward specifically white women. Literally, Summer Games Fest had a "Upcoming Cozy Games" segment and the majority of presenters were cis white women, barely any minority streamers, let alone men, involved.

That being said, as someone vehemently against GenAI, I think it also important to know *how* it was trained. On stolen art? On in house concepts? Tho even then the horrible environmental effects upon GenAI usage give cause for concern.

Was it ever confirmed to be GenAi? As far as I'm aware it was never confirmed, even if the textures themselves were ultimately removed, and I feel like the entire internet has completely forgotten that procedural generation has been a practice in gaming for a long time and often confuse it and GenAI

FFIX > FFIX ???
...I think I can accept this truth

Tax Act, we've been using that site the past two years and is free if I recall correctly

These obviously does work for every game, but the key is to explain the basics without forcing inputs, then let players experiment with the more in depth systems a little before explaining everything. Alternatively, you could have multiple levels of tutorials that can be changed in the settings.

I tend to favor tutorials like NieR and Tales. In NieR, you're in a battle with tutorials listed on the side for the basics, but you're in control of the fight. In Tales, there's tutorials until after the fight. First time Poisoned? Poison tutorial. First time exploiting weaknesses? Here's elements.

I know I'm a day late, and admittedly still getting started here, but been following you for a while on Twitter and I share interests with basically everything on this list! (Especially FF, KH, and Pokemon)