Game:

The Punisher (2005)

Duration: 45:18

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Not a very well-made game, but an amusing one nonetheless. Very poorly-designed boss fights that are sometimes super weird and frustrating, and often easy to cheese out. Way oversaturated cutscenes. Apparently the plot picks up at the end of the Thomas Jane movie? Very strange, because there's a ton of Marvel Comics bullshit in the game, but none in the movie. Bullseye, Kingpin, even Iron Man shows up for a while when the yakuza raids Stark Tower. Weirdest was the very brief Daredevil cameo where Matt Murdoch shows up and Punisher says he doesn't need a lawyer. There's some cool and interesting game ideas in here and I do think it was worth playing, but it's a janky mess that clearly didn't get the time the devs wanted to spend on it. The interrogation mechanic is particularly confusing. You get points for killing bad guys. Some bad guys have information and you can threaten them with violence to get them to spill it. It's very goofy (at one point you threaten a guy with a rhino), but the minigame is IMPOSSIBLE to figure out, and you lose points when you kill them with the thing because technically you've failed the minigame. But it just feels weird to lose the points because the whole game is about that. You lose more points killing them with the goofy thing than you get if you just shoot them. It's unintuitive. Bunch of dumb one-liners though, so honestly, worth it.

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