Vanquish

I like the sound of that.

VANQUISH demo is out now(for 360 anyway, PSN hasn't updated its store yet >_>).

Go!

The PSN demo was released about 4 hours ago.

European demo will be uploaded tomorrow.

Japan gets it last, strangely enough.

I'm playing the demo. Very stylish and fun.

I wish there were more third person shooters. I like the attractive cast too.

Some say its the love child of master chief and bayonetta, and raised by the Gears of War folks fed with Adreline and steroids.

Played the demo today. I'm going to be bankrupt by the end of this year...

I did to. its hard if you don't know what your doing, and the boss is a pain in the ass fight, but its is a must get this year. Its by Platinum Games/ Former Clover Studios, after all.

^^^ All we know is, we call him The Stig.

Did he just slam dunk the boss' cannon shell back into its cannon? O.O

Yes, yes he did. Theres the bayonetta influence for you. Vanquish is gonna be cool!

I died once during the boss, and that was only because I didn't expect the transformation and the size of the torso laser. It still took a while, but I liked it since you had to move around to survive.

Finally, a shooter with some hand-to-hand mechanics.

Remember, kids! Beating your foes to death might not be as versatile as shooting their heads off from half a mile away, but it's no less lethal!

TGS trailer(no, I don't know why it's using a European rating system and English VAs at a Japanese conference):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDmMGvVUvs

Possible spoilers for anybody who for, some reason, cares about the story.

edited 16th Sep '10 4:42:31 PM by JotunofBoredom

Man, after playing the demo and watching the TGS trailer i am SO PUMPED for this. It'll all be like WA-CHA! And then KA-BLAM! And then SONIC-BOOM! I think i might just go ahead and pre-order it.

Also it looks like the game is taking more from gears than the cover system. I saw what looked like a chainsaw bayonet. YES.

Anyways, is it just me or is the Heavy Machine Gun like ten times better than the assault rifle? I mean, in the admittedly brief playing period i never found a situation where the assault rifle was more effective then something that has about three times the damage potential.

I don't know if it'll be great or not, but it'll be a Change of Pace (tm).

TPS > FPS.

Anyways this game sorta reminds me of war for cybertron.

^ Now that you mention it, yeah.

Well, they're both TPS's with very futuristic backgrounds and transforming robots all over the place.

New enemies trailer.

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And it comes out October 22.

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The Gamespot review.

Hmph.

Looked interesting on the surface, but getting a little deeper, it seems too over the top for me.

Call me boring.

Finished the game.

Awesome, but short.

It's a joy to replay too. Currently doing a hardmode no death run.

The final boss is like Anubis times 2 both figuratively and literally.

edited 23rd Oct '10 4:58:26 PM by JotunofBoredom

^^ Its intentionally like that. If Shinji Mikami can make Zombies over the top, he can also make other stuff like that too. Plus, you know, its a Japanese developer formerly a part of Capcom.

Ah.

Must be a Japanese thing. Not my style.

I prefer the relatively tame things, like the Akrid.