I went broke to buy the last copy of this at my closest K-Mart and looking back on it now I'm pissed at myself for settling for the damn Player's Choice label.
Henshin a go go baby
Viewtiful Joe is a stylish, cel-shaded superhero beat-'em-up brimming with personality. Its unique VFX powers allow you to manipulate time, unleashing devastating combos and dazzling special effects. The quirky humor and over-the-top action create a thrilling, challenging experience. While the difficulty might be daunting for casual players, Viewtiful Joe's striking visuals, addictive gameplay, and pure sense of fun make it a cult classic for action game enthusiasts.
another game that suffered from not being as popular as it should because of awful release times. this game is peak still
i watched my older brother play this when mom wasn't home
This game is fucking kino I need to replay it this year
Punishing and hard as fuck, but god if it is satisfying. I'm also a sucker of this kind of artstyle, it's what I'd call "how japanese see american comic books" (and you can tell it by other stuff like Tiger & Bunny, My Hero Academia...Inferno cop lol etc.)
we need more Joe
for some reason the last time I played this like maybe 15 years ago i wasn't really into it despite loving it a whole lot when it first came out. i guess i wasn't feeling like getting into all the mechanics again and just kinda dropped the replay.
i can attest now after a long while that i was initially correct there's no other game like this in every aspect. it's stylish, it's gorgeous, it's really fun, it might genuinely be the Kamiya game with most attitude imprinted in it and that's saying a LOT.
Viewtiful Joe tells a fun light story both about how fictional worlds suck due to how stagnant they are and how shitty it feels to be a one-hit wonder in any art career. which is extremely ironic considering this game got like two sequels, one spin-off, a whole anime and then simply -disappeared- from the face of the earth aside from getting costume references and being in 2 vs. titles. No ports, no interest, nothing.
at the end of the day i think i might like this more than Bayonetta in regards to which is my favorite Kamiya game... while Bayo was definitely influential to me in a lot of important aspects, Viewtiful Joe might just have changed how i viewed videogames as a whole.
i can attest now after a long while that i was initially correct there's no other game like this in every aspect. it's stylish, it's gorgeous, it's really fun, it might genuinely be the Kamiya game with most attitude imprinted in it and that's saying a LOT.
Viewtiful Joe tells a fun light story both about how fictional worlds suck due to how stagnant they are and how shitty it feels to be a one-hit wonder in any art career. which is extremely ironic considering this game got like two sequels, one spin-off, a whole anime and then simply -disappeared- from the face of the earth aside from getting costume references and being in 2 vs. titles. No ports, no interest, nothing.
at the end of the day i think i might like this more than Bayonetta in regards to which is my favorite Kamiya game... while Bayo was definitely influential to me in a lot of important aspects, Viewtiful Joe might just have changed how i viewed videogames as a whole.