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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The lesson here is you can trust most big Japanese publishers/developers and it's the opposite for American/European ones. Christ, Death Stranding was almost ruined by all the "subtle" product placements they put

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Kojima got away with his product placement in mgs3 because nobody in the west knew calorie mate was a real product lol.