My limited understanding is they wrote some of their usual bullshit but aimed it at Nintendo for not being diverse or woke enough or something in some of their reviews of Nintendo games, so rather than artificially souring the market based on that leading up to a game’s launch, Nintendo has been flipping them the bird ever since with sending them anything, prerelease or otherwise.

Kotaku would have just said that it’s still a regressive game for not making Zelda the lead or Link black or something. And that the only person of color in the whole game is usually the villain.