![]() ![]() Though sexual puns and innuendos make up a bulk of the game’s script, it’s expected when you’re dealing with a duo of horny teenagers and a group of warped demons from a dimension known as “Rotten World”. Though its overt sexuality could have easily fallen under the guise of a gimmick, there is a certain expectedness behind the dialogue exchanges of Juliet and her torso-less boyfriend, Nick. ![]() In many ways, Grasshopper Manufacture is made up of geniuses. As gameplay started, it hit me – Grasshopper was just getting the expected crap out of the way before delivering the exact opposite of what I anticipated. Immediately, I feared that my $64.00 would have been better off in the toilet. Moving past the flashy, cartoonish main menu that blasted Joan Jett’s “Cherry Bomb”, I cringed as the game’s protagonist explained in short detail the quirks of her stereotypical life. As my system booted up, despite knowing the developer’s reputation I expected little from Grasshopper Manufacture ’s perverse introduction to the zombie-slaying cheerleader, Juliet Starling, which it created in collaboration with film director, James Gunn (“Slither”). It is still a game where magic tar people try to pull you under the ground to spawn magic tar tigers, and you can stop them from doing that by using razor-sharp handcuffs to cut their magic tar umbilical cords to make them go away or throw grenades made of your character's urine at them to knock them out, all while you're trying to deliver Conan O'Brien cosplay materials for his wife so you can get an otter hood for your coat.Sometimes you have to pick up your controller knowing full well that you’re not about to dive into the next Devil May Cry. If anything, I'd say it's too straightforward as the story overplays its hand early on that has you clued immediately into what the big turns in the plot are going to be by the end, and the game dutifully does not veer away from the conclusions you already drew. Getting off topic.Ĭlick to shrink.Compared to MGS, Death Stranding is refreshingly standalone and straightforward, as it explains all of its concepts in a way that you're never lost, the history of the characters and the world before the events of the game are plainly stated and resolved by the end, and the story itself never really takes that wild a swing where you're necessarily going "that literally makes no sense." Even the stuff with Amelie I've alluded to isn't necessarily that out there, and is more an issue with how Kojima chose to portray her by the end that makes you scratch your head. How we really need a stronger American left, to raise awareness among these people. I can only imagine offering a poor woman one more outfit and feeds collected and asking: what do you think of the short skirt of the video game that will be remastered?īut it was my fault, I apologize, because I get a little annoyed with these pamphlet-decorated discussions of middle-class white Americans. It reminds me a lot when the far-right folks in their own culture war, worried that now such a black actor will play a white character, or that such a character in the game will be lgbt+. NOBODY is worried about the character THAT DOESN'T EXIST if he's killing other characters, in a skirt or pants. I was today using some of my available time to collect food due to record unemployment and HUNGER in the place where I live. ![]() Hunger, unemployment and the implosion of rights is what happens in real life. With relatively few tweaks, alterations and omissions (like throwing Euringer into the sun) there's solid stuff for a remake. There's even some interesting stuff in the game, like Nick resenting his continued existence, his anger at being treated like an object (in terms of gameplay and story beats) before ultimately slipping into a depressive state. Some of the language has dated but there's not really much that isn't on the level of other recent Gunn titles. He was still pulling worse shit 4 years later in MGSV. The content in the game itself is campy for the most part and everything that is egregious (which is mainly the creepy old anime stereotype and the needless camera angles) is nothing that hasn't been done, arguably worse, in other games since 2012. If that game wasn't made by a 15 year old who teleported here from 2002, I'll eat my hat. If we're strictly speaking in terms of design, look at stuff like Lost Ark. The over sexualisation in marketing isn't something that hasn't really died since the days of Lollipop Chainsaw. It hasn't been locked on the PS3 and 360 since 2012. Click to shrink.I mean, you can still play and access Let It Die. ![]()
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