Vanquish

I don't think I'm surprising anyone by saying that PlatinumGames has made a fun action game here - at this point, it's something to be expected. My praise for Vanquish comes from concepts: it's a refreshing take on seventh gen third-person shooters, where speed and power management take precedence over hiding and waiting. After fumbling through the first few levels, the game finally clicked for me: I began to see new areas as gardens of opportunity rather than simple arenas to shoot through. Accelerating at top speed, slamming boots-first into a robot's face, slowing down time to shoot on the fall down... It's exhilarating stuff. There was never a time in the game where the combat felt explicitly unfair: the wide range of weapons, movement options, and open areas gave a ton of wiggle room. The tools are always there, and it's up to you to utilize them best. The upgrade system encourages the player to pick favorites, and helps cement a playstyle that works for you. I favored the assault rifle and sniper, but I can just as easily see someone maxing out heavier and/or more niche armaments. Definitely going to come back to this one someday and play it on a harder difficulty.

Jogaço da SEGA... História boa, bastante ação, a gameplay é divertida, muito bom.

AR模式就是主动进入魔女时间，一开始就把所有技能给玩家了，后面一路推，有些枪根本没用过。敌人设计得挺有意思，关卡心流也不错，特殊桥段演出都挺带感。总的来说还是有点虎头蛇尾，白金的游戏好多都有这个问题。战斗应该还是有深度的，以后有时间再来研究。 记得采访里三上说当时他从卡普空离职后，休息够了，特别想做游戏，然后做的这款。

Just a blast all throughout the campaign. A short and sweet title that still holds up extremely well even today. Definitely a pick up if you like fast-paced games, cover shooters, and third person shooters. Vanquish isn't the most complex, fleshed out game I've played but it's a really fun time the whole way through and I think it deserves more recognition. This game is almost a hybrid between Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Gears of War, it's a really fun formula that results in a unique badass game the whole way through. The gameplay of Vanquish is excellent IF you tackle it with the correct approach, try to do cool silly things instead of hiding behind cover, it really amplified the experience for me and a lot of other people. The core gameplay consists of playing a mission defeating robots in the coolest ways possible, you have a few different weapons to toy around with and some other toys such as a rocket slide, boost dodge, boost kick and more. Oh yeah, also the main attraction, the bullet-time which allows you to do some really cool looking fight scenes which feel amazing to pull off. The level design is very linear but the game gives you a handful of different weapons, mission types, and scenarios that challenge you to use everything at your disposal. The game isn't bursting with content and is about 6-7ish hours for the main story but man those 6-7 hours are super fun. Vanquish was directed by Shinji Mikami who you also may know as the director of The Evil Within 1, Resident Evil 1, and Dino Crisis. All of which are either horror games or PS1 games so it's really impressive how he was able to create Vanquish without any expertise or practice in the genre. The story is whatever, really forgettable but the characters are pretty cool all with their own personalities and motives. The lines these characters say got quite a few laughs out of me throughout my experience too. But yeah, the story is mediocre in my opinion, if you are looking for a deep and complex story, you won't find it here. It's very evident that the developers focused more on the gameplay than anything else, it's a perfectly servicable story that doesn't draw too much attention to itself letting you enjoy the gameplay. I also wanna quickly touch on the art direction / music for a sec. The OST is pretty good and is composed by Erina Niwa who you might know the composer of the Resident Evil 4: Separate Ways and Bayonetta OST's. Her music is quite nice and it's also nice to see her getting back into her passion from the 13 year long break between the Vanquish OST in 2010 and RE4 Remake DLC's OST in 2023. The art direction is decently nice to look at, it's quite dim and gritty just like the Gears of War games with some of the highlights on screen being a very bright colour such as the enemies, projectiles, and characters. It's not the most appealing thing to look at but it amplifies the experience while you're playing ten fold. Overall, really cool and fun game. I'd recommend checking it out if you're even slightly curious, it's a fun time, trust me. It goes on sale quite regularly for 70% off and even at full price it's an extremely fun experience. I also did a little research for this review, sorry if I got anything wrong lol.

It's a short but very rewarding game. Fast paced and fun. The voice acting is entertaining. I like how the machine gun goes "bulbulbul".

Shooter frenético, pulido y muy entretenido. Una experiencia de acción pura y mecanicas que disfruté bastante. Totalmente recomendado. (nada como hacer drift con el traje y fumarse un cigarrillo)

Oh Vanquish, how you take me back to just being a girl borrowing her Dad's XBOX again. I appreciate it more now of course, seeing that I actually understand what I'm doing instead of running around shooting walls.