Joe is no ordinary man and Viewtiful Joe is no ordinary game. Capcom's new superhero action game mixes funky cartoon-style visuals with classic side-scrolling gameplay and introduces the world's quirkiest million dollar action hero. More than just any ordinary dude, Joe must transform into the ultimate superhero. It's up to you to activate the correct view mode like "slow" or "zoom in" in order to clobber your enemies with beautiful style. You can also speed up or slow down your visual effects for even more "viewtiful" moves. Viewtiful Joe mixes an innovative viewpoint with an amazing stunt-filled action movie universe.
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Viewtiful Joe could be a really fun game, but most of the time it isn't. Besides the difficulty of the game being hard, the game is very frustrating if its not playing correctly and there isn't almost any clue to play as the game wants you to play it. This man-made difficulty is due to the lack of duration of the game, so you will restart the stages over and over searching the correct way to clear them. This gameplay is characteristic of old-school games and it doesn't have to be a bad thing, but I felt that in Viewtiful Joe its really unfair and annoying. I dont like to use guides on my first playthroughts, but in this case I needed it several times because I saw it impossible to move forward. And it was not because its a hard game, but because I didn't know how a certain mechanic worked.
Still I find Viewtiful Joe a very interesting game and it is a basis for what later would become Bayonetta.
Still I find Viewtiful Joe a very interesting game and it is a basis for what later would become Bayonetta.
My name is also Joe. So this game is about me.
Simple to pick up, hard to master mechanics complimented by a stylish aesthetic and charmingly campy story and voice acting. What more could ya want from a Hideki Kamiya game?
Most unique energy in anything ever, it gives zero shits about itself. It has its fair share of bullshit but its still an utter blast, I think people new to action games and want to learn them should give this a go.
gameplay on point, aesthetics on point, sound design on point, characters on point, it's just too fuckin' hard for me at times. Still a banger game though.
It's the closest to Capcom making a 2D Devil May Cry and that's not even including the fact that Dante is playable. The series deserved way more love than it got.