Balatro wasn't just : pretty much (). But unfortunately things have now taken a distressing turn.
There's an official way to pronounce Balatro, and it's not what I thought. I say Ba-lah-tro and so do most members of the [[link]] PCG team. recently put the question to Naman Budhwar, head of marketing at the game's publisher Playstack, and he says otherwise.
"BAH-luh-trow is how LocalThunk says it," says Budhwar. "But it’s kind of a 'gif / jif' situation, where he doesn’t really mind how people say it.
My disappointment is immeasurable, my day is ruined, and for some reason I keep thinking of that time John Romero said "gib" was .
Developer LocalThunk's been on a well-deserved victory lap recently, sharing the along with various other tidbits (such [[link]] as when he resumed development because ). Oh, and the time they released a demo of the game where .