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Pickle flavored pizza. Mustard flavored ice cream. Doritos flavored chicken wings. Weird flavored guy.
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At first glance, Rising is Bayonetta with some Metal Gear branding. In execution, it shares some DNA but handles parrying, dodging, QTEs, and movement differently enough to really stand out as its own thing.
Most cutscenes are some very quotable nonsense but man is it all so rad. With a soundtrack ripped straight from Sonic Adventure 2 and ridiculous anime fight presentation throughout, Rising is always a fun ride.
If I didn’t have 10 years of Platinum games to look back on since its release, I would wish for a direct sequel to really polish execution and make the combat feel tighter. But it seems like this is the best PlatinumGames has to offer—give or take Nier: Automata.
I think this is what dudes mean when they say a game has “soul.”
Very silly and fun with a group of friends. Not much deeper than that as far as I can tell.
A couple cool new skins, more very okay skins. Two new, pretty POIs. Medallions got fleshed out or ruined depending on who you ask. And that's... about it.
Oh, they also removed cosmetic item rarities to obfuscate the pricing scale and locked Aang behind a terrible mini-pass to make him more expensive. I guess the machine printing their unlimited money wasn't printing fast enough.