Yes, I became many people's bitch during my journey through "Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance"*, because this game is hard, and that's how I like games, apparently. or possibly the triumphant ejaculate of a boss who has murdered me the eightieth time. So I pre-judged.Īnd now "Metal Gear Rising" is getting its revengeance by being actually good. That trailer was nothing but bad testosterone and pre-programmed action sequences, totally failing to play the high notes of this game, probably since they weren't finished yet. Like "Bayonetta" but instead of sexploitation, its badass-ploitation. Plus, when you call a game "Revengeance", you can't help but assume that its going to be the dumbest trash possible. To be fair, I was reacting to a pretty awful trailer that went out of its way to make the game look as forgettable as possible with several awful guitar riffs which mostly ignored the bizarre genius that built Hideo Kojima's career. And to prove my ultimate hypocrisy, I went ahead and played it, and actually came pretty close to loving it. So all is well with me.Ī while ago I wrote a long ranting piece about my disappointment to see that "Metal Gear Rising" had turned into yet another over-the-top action spectacle game, just like "Bayonetta", "God of War", "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow", "Enslaved", "Devil May Cry", "Heavenly Sword", and perhaps most-hideously, "Dante's Inferno". First of all, the most important detail: there actually are watermelons.
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