Literally since the 11th of November I've done very little but play Skyrim. I finally Dragged my self away from it today. Dusted off my Xbox 360 and found the unopened love film envelope i got days ago. Inside was Vanquish. The things I was thinking about this Game during the hour or so I spent with it, actually inspired me to reignite the Game Corner. I was literally quietly laughing to my self. If only I could make a video of it.
Now Don't get me wrong it's not a bad game from what I've played of it so far. But the japanese cheesyness has to be laughed at. although we'll get to that in a minute. You start off with this tutorial telling you how to move. (Yeah in case you cant figure out what those two grey sticks on the controller do.) Even if you've never played a video game before, if you lack the intelligence to figure that out in the first few seconds of the game, you're going to have some serious issues. These tutorials, a lot of the time bug the crap out of me. Once you've learned how to move and shoot you get thrust in to this cheesy cut scene with evil russians blowing up San Francisco this is kind of cool., but once that scene is over the real cheesyness starts. At this point you start to wonder when the game is actually going to let you play. Suddenly you're greeted with a scene of your character smoking a cigarette in a very camp and amusing way, he's obviously supposed to look bad ass and cool, but it really doesn't come off like that. It's only a style Japanese video game designers can pull off and try to be serious.
Then you meet the big brute who is your boss, I think. He reminded me very much of Barret off final fantasy 7. Just that kind of character. The cheesy clichés continue for a little while, and shit blows up (in the overly long cut scenes obviously) Then you finally get to take control of your character, and in metal gear solid style you run down a corridor and then you get thrust in to yet another cut scene. Now I'm sorry but I've sat here long enough watching this. I'm all for advancement of the story but If I wanted to watch a movie I'd have put a DVD in to the Xbox and not a game.
Gameplay Impressions.
I have to stress that I didn't spend that long playing it. I had other things to do and decided to start this blog. But the impressions of the game play I got from this are actually pretty good. It reminds me a lot of the gears of war series only less violent since you seem to be fighting robots. The abilities the suit gives you are kind of cool (Yeah I should really explain this a bit better) Your camp character wears this mechanical super suit. Which makes him stronger tougher blah blah blah. But you have certain moves like this jet powered slide effort which just seemed quite cool when i tried it.
The gun fights are very Gears of warish. Take cover, blast the enemies move forward etc.
A full review will come soon. But for now That's all I have to say about the game.
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