to be honest the word on the track sounds a lot like retarded, and we still don't have any confirmation about what it actually says, since it's an improvised part that does not appear in the lyrics (thus the atlus esponse about the lyrics not having the word in it, we do know that already).
it can definitely also just be confirmation bias..they tell you that a word is in it an you will keep hearing it forever.
it can also just actually be the word retarded from a foreign speaker that doesn't necessarely abides by the same cultural standards and thus sees no harm in it..from this point of view the first article was definitely hinting too much towards ill wil without any kind of proof other than the "i can say it" part that follows.
also,they were in the wrong to not wait for nintendo or atlus reply before the irst article, but they already kind of admitted that
