![]() ![]() You know how Hideo Kojima's approach to including real-world politics and history in his games is to read the first line of the Wikipedia page and then get bored and set a whale on fire? Devil's Third somehow does even less! It seems to have gotten its understanding of the world from what could be barked at it through the door hatch as it was passed its morning bowl of gruel. Like the kind of Metal Gear Solid that was brewed from ketchup packets in a prison toilet. The quickest possible description for it would be "poor man's Metal Gear Solid". I know I've been wrong before about that, but this time it's not about tone, it's about sucking shit harder than a colonic irrigation. It's certainly not a natural fit for the Wii audience, since it's sweary and violent and probably won't get any of its characters into Smash Bros. One suspects the only reason it's on the WiiU is because it's too last-gen to hack it on any other console. It seems like the sort of thing that is spontaneously generated when enough shitty games rub together, like how the brewing process spontaneously generates Marmite.Īnyway, it's a Wii U exclusive, which I'm not sure is the right word to use it implies that this was something so enticing that Nintendo wanted it all to itself, when one suspects it was more of a "letting an orphaned puppy in out of the rain and letting it chuck up all over the half-rug" scenario. It's one of those games I have difficulty believing was made as part of somebody's conscious decisions. ![]() ![]() I also locked myself in a bathroom and ate an entire pound of brandy butter, so it's possible I hallucinated it. I didn't, because I spent part of them playing Devil's Third, at least I think I did. Well, I hope we all had some nice holidays. This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Devil's Third. ![]()
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