Posted on: March 7, 2025
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Truly one of the games of all time...
Of all the games ever this is certainly one of them, that's for sure. Specifically a slightly modernized, shinier and wetter, version of a PS2 game. And that's fine, but it's nothing more than that. It was notoriously broken at launch, and while this version seems to be largely fixed (no crashes in the roughly 4 hours I've played it), it doesn't really make this a notable or particularly remarkable game. It's a totally radical grungy third person shooter where you play as a moody mysterious antihero gunslinger with a massive casket strapped to his back (other skins are available) and two large guns (other weapons are available), let loose in a moody dark city overrun with crime (other locations are available). It is, mechanically, pretty much a mid-2000s Japanese PS2 AA shooter. The not-quite-Devil May Cry, that tries hard (too hard) to be cool and fun, and succeeds at first, but fails to freshen up the experience in any meaningful way. While the game is relatively lengthy - around 10 hours if you're reasonably competent, it starts to overstay its welcome by about the third hour. The fighting system is not too deep but the fights themselves are spectacular enough to keep it from becoming a slog, and you can definitely derive ironic fun from the incredibly cheesy plot and cutscenes to the point where it's kinda hard to tell if the game tries to be taken seriously or just makes fun of the genre tropes. In terms of art direction actually prefer the PS2 original It is, at the end of the day, a PS2 game with somewhat modern graphics (sparks! reflections! shiny things!), but it is very very simple at its core - you are one cool dude, and you kill lots of mooks. You do that in various locations but in mostly the same ways for about 10 hours. It can be enjoyable, but this review only really applies at it's current heavily discounted price (-84%). You'd be monumentally dumb to pay more than 15 USD for this game, but at just under $5 it is fun for a couple of evenings.
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