VANQUISH - the ultimate air guitar knee slide (or SHIT JUST GOT REAL the vidyagaem)
 

Platinum Games (of Bayonetta, MadWorld and Infinite Space fame) and director Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil, Killer7, God Hand, Devil May Cry) bring you the batshit
insane lovechild of Gears of War, God Hand and P.N.03 about Americans fighting armies of Russian assault robots, in the future, IN SPAAAACE

The demo is out on both Xbox Live and PSN and if you haven't tried them yet stop reading right now.

LOOK AT THIS GLORIOUS KNEE-SLIDING, ROCKET-BOOSTING, TIME SLOWING, PAGE STRETCHING,
FLIP KICKING, DRILL-PUNCHING, CHAIN-SMOKING, ULTRA-COOL MOTHERFUCKER

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Go play the demo, then come back, unless you've already had the game ordered like me. You could still play the demo. Again.

Or you can watch something like GT's preview of it while you wait.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/pr...anquish/702553

Or the Sam Gideon trailer with some sweet gameplay footage amidst the silly story bits.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-10-vanquish/702607


Anyway, I am looking so forward to this. I was really psyched by the time the first gameplay videos were released, but the demo confirms it to be completely, deliriously glorious.

Oh and the cover is lenticular.

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We can see Sega is throwing every bell and whistle into making itself look ridiculous, but do go and buy the game when it's out next month.

What's going on in this thread? Why did I just get kicked in the face? Why don't I mind that at all?

I just played the demo and it was fantastic. I was having a few issues with the camera when the action got hot, especially against the HUGE FUCKING TRANSFORMING, MISSILE SPAMMING BOSS at the end of of it, but nowhere near enough to hinder the enjoyment of the whole thing.

Definitely going to be picking this one up.

Played the demo for like, 40 seconds and ordered this.

Wow. Just wow.

Yes, it's lots of fun; just remember to keep moving (cover is destructible) and manage boost energy.

That said, some actual official sources need to be dropped here...

• forum
• Platinum Games blog entries (English)
• Japanese site
• English site (sadly and inexcusably lags in terms of content updates)

For those interested in such things, Gamestop among other retailers has a preorder bonus consisting of a trio of special weapons (reference):

• 'boost machine gun' (model; ingame)
• anti-armor pistol (looks like a very cut-down shotgun) (model; ingame)
• laser cannon (model; ingame)

First time I played the demo, I just jumped in and died 3 times and took 20 minutes didn't think much of it. Second time through the demo, I played the tutorial, blasted through the story mission in 10 minutes and loved it. The voices are a bit too 90's anime-ish, the camera was annoyingly slow at first but I got used to it. Not sure if I should expect a huge story out of this but the gameplay itself might be worth it.
The shooting is very forgiving even on normal but nothing wrong with that. Only thing that might be the biggest problem is that every action relies on the suits power level, which makes sense I guess but even a melee attack can deplete your entire health bar and be an instant death if you use it improperly.
There aren't any games coming out this fall/winter so I may pick this up since it does have sega's "awesome" style as they did with bayonetta"

Played the demo and rather enjoyed it. The only thing that really bugged me was damage taken seemed kinda arbitrary when fighting the boss. He killed me 3 times in one hit when I had full health, and all 3 times I have literally no idea why I died. But then there would be times where I would take a big missile or laser directly to the face and it would fuck me up, but I'd be fine. Not sure if I was just missing something or what, but it was really annoying.

First form has a top mounted cannon that shoots fast enough that you don't really have much of a chance to dodge it unless you're already moving. It has a really obvious charge animation glow though, and it's strong enough to throw you straight into emergency AR if you're at full health, so being beaten up a bit will have it kill you quick.

ALso your health is directly related to how much suit juice you got left so.

Ah, I bet that's what I was missing.

Definitely looking forward to picking up Vanquish.

I died twice during the demo, but both times happened at the very beginning. That aerial fire comes down and sends a car or something flying, and it's instant death if it touches you. I didn't get a good look at what happened the first time, and the second time I was standing right next to it when it got hit. I found it odd how ineffective the giant spider robot was compared to a stray car. The boss didn't even seem to target me as I walked around by its feet, slowly kicking open weapon crates for ammo. It didn't care about my squad either, who all huddled up in the same corner with their backs turned to the boss.

That said, I only had two issues with the demo. First, the punching. Enemies would go down with a single punch, yet he insisted on finishing the combo and sending the suit into recharge mode. Second, recharge mode takes way too long. Hopefully there are upgrades that lessen it a bit, or at least make your suit last longer before having to recharge.

Oh god I just realized Sam is voiced by Gideon Emery YES YES

There's a god damn button for Sam to take a smoke break.

Nuff said.

Fa-huuuuck yes, I can't wait for this game. Demo was great, AI was meh, smoking was hilarious, and boss was appropriate in difficulty. Easy-- but it's an early stage.

Still haven't gotten around to playing the demo yet (am going to try and correct that soon), but got this pre-ordered. In fact, thanks to Skills's heads up I've got some awesome looking UK exclusive ordered (woop).

Definitely looking forward to this a lot.

Three things happened when I got home from work today.

1. The demo got played
2. A load exploded in my pants along with the massive explosion of the first boss
3. Game was pre-ordered

I played it on both Casual, which was supposed to have auto-aim (queue "VERY EASY" jokes at this point) and Normal. I found that it was actually harder to beat that fucking boss with auto-aimvon than without it. It's like the auto-aim wants to aim to the main weak points when you should be juking out its joints first.

Anyway, I was blown away; literally. Can't wait until this comes out next month!

Did you play casual FIRST?

Because honestly if you're going to review this thing I swear to God you better actually play it instead of automating half of it.

I did because I thought it was gonna be easier but, man, it's just so much easier when YOU'RE the one aiming the goddamn gun where you want the shots to go.

So you just assumed you were too incapable and retarded? Not a bad stance to take but

At this point it's safe to say Mikami is trolling people who are too dumb to properly play the vidya. And yet they lavish him anyway despite only playing half the game. I find this hilarious but appropriate.

Seems like my journal message did not get across.

What a pity.

"I played the game on what I assumed would be an easy difficulty setting." The part that is INSIDE the quotations is the part I'm submitting as my answer to question Y. I'm not sure how you canucks translate the language but I'm fairly certain that's pretty self-explanatory.

That's a lot of words to say "yes".

And lo...
 

...the speed runs have already started. For example, I recently had this playthrough brought to my attention... 4:46 elapsed, 19500 points accrued.

It's just the demo. I'll wait until it hits retail then I shall await these runs with gusto.

I had mine preordered already. Impressed in every aspect of the demo.

And yes, I played on normal.