A joke being funny or not is entirely subjective. Whether you think it's a good joke or not has no effect on the actual intention behind the line. Games like this are filled with hundreds, if not thousands of lines of unimportant dialogue and they can't all be amazing. Especially when you're writing dialogue for random psychotic enemies. I'd argue that a nonsensical line like that is perfectly in line with what you might expect out of those enemies. Regardless, there's no reason to just assume it was ill-intentioned. Just because you aren't old enough to understand the reference doesn't mean it's okay to turn it into something you do understand without any consideration for alternatives.
Sure. Unlike the reviewer, I correctly understood the reference and never assumed that the joke was ill-intentioned.
The problem is whether or not that line is indicative of the writing in the game, which a few reviewers have already noted as a sore spot.
Even if that line is intended to be funny, it simply isn't - it's nonsense, meaningless noise even in the context of psycho spouting it in battle. It's hard to fault the reviewer for trying make sense out something when they're not in on the non-joke.
But, if it's what the fans want....
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