HIGH: Exploding an enemy with their own projectile as it launches in glorious slow motion.
LOW: The unskippable first-person interactive cut-scenes bring the pacing to a halt.
WTF: Why is Sam's visor set at his mouth when he exposes his entire face to smoke?
HIGH Every time I backflipped off of a gorgie, slowed time in midair and blew the heads off of three others before touching the ground. This happened often.
LOW Restarting a stage and getting blown away by a starship-class laser before the chapter title had even faded from the screen.
WTF A tie between the dancing gorgies, and the fact that not one of them was doing the robot.
HIGH Taking down two giant robots at once with barely a scratch.
LOW Overheating the suit while surrounded by enemies.
WTF Why do weapon levels get reset when replaying stages?
HIGH De-fleshing Jude the Dude with his own guns, then blowing apart his naked skeleton for good measure.
LOW The distinct lack of unlockables. Platinum is the reincarnation of Clover Studios, after all.
WTF "It's like when you're surfing porn on the toilet for 12 hours—when you do get up, it ain't a pretty sight."
HIGH Defeating the third wave of a superior enemy fleet with just a sliver of life left on my flagship.
LOW Getting lost for six hours in Chapter Two.
WTF The acronym for fame points is FAP.
HIGH My first 9,999,999 point combo.
LOW Space Harrier.
WTF This game teaches us that even angels engage in pedophilia.
Perhaps you've seen Sega's recent commercial for the game Bayonetta?
It's an oddly subdued (well, considering the subject) and classy commercial for such a bombastic game, and what helps it to achieve this effect is the music playing in the background: Skream's "Let's Get Ravey" Mix of La Roux's "In for the Kill."
I love game commercials. They usually represent everything BUT the game that is being sold, and this eerie accompaniment is no exception. The real Bayonetta includes an earful of bizarre J-pop.
MadWorld comes closer to the kind of inherently "ethical" gameplay that Miguel Sicart (The Ethics of Computer Games) associates with the voyeuristic gorefest Manhunt. Sicart calls Manhunt an exemplary ethical title in the sense that it offers a "closed, mirroring" ethical system of gameplay that compels the player-subject to adhere to rules that become increasingly ghastly and, if fully utilized, so depraved that it causes the "virtuous" player to be self-reflective. This realization, though tied to unethical gameplay, is itself an ethical end-product of the design and the experience of the player.
As Gus Mastrapa writes in GameLife, Platinum Games's upcoming brawler Bayonetta will feature a mode which allows gamers to play through the entire game using a single button. The title, which will be released for the XBox 360 and the PS3, is, essentially, a mainstream one-switch game.
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