Yes. Everything Is Rubbish.

I've slaughtered thousands of men. Run along the side of a building. Flown on thebacked of some winged thingy. Played cowboy samurai on the top of a moving train. Leapt from missile to missle and sliced a stealth bomber in half and yet...I can't say I'm having fun playing this game. It's difficult to get excited about a game which is going through the motions and throwing you cliché after cliché and doing so with no particular amount of flair or style we haven't seen before. Bayonetta was a complete cliché, but it was fully aware of the fact that it was and this was the charm. Every cut scene, beat down and outlandish physical act from Bayonetta was so over the top and stylish that you couldn't help but become captivated and fall for how ridiculous and self aware the game was. And underneath all of this it had a pretty solid combat system to back itself up. Then you have Rising , which is doing what every other game has done, but about 2 years too late. As the...

Metal Gear Rising was never a game I was going to buy. I can't give concrete reasons as to why. But there was just something about the game that didn't have me overcome with the desire to throw money at it. But a friend of mine kindly gifted me with a copy of it on Friday, so I now have the game. Upon hearing that Platinum games were taking over production of the Rising and seeing the trailer of Raiden running on walls and throwing a Metal Gear Ray with his bare hands, I thought what many did; that this game was going to be a palette swap of Bayonetta . To say the game is just this discredits much of Platinum's work. But even so, it's not vastly far off save for a couple of mechanic changes here and there. I'm not cut up (Geddit!? *Hugh Hefner wink*) about this, as I loved Bayonetta . And the chance to go to town on some bitches as Raiden in cyborg ninja mode is something we all yearned for since witnessing his epic confrontation with Vamp and the Gekko's in ...