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Vanquish (2010)

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Originally recorded: April 3, 2022
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In retrospect, that's probably what I should have named this stream in the first place. It's a catchy title, it actually alludes to Platinum's involvement with this game and it rolls off the tongue significantly better. Too bad I didn't think it up until after the second session. Oh well, not much I can do now but use it to mark the finale of this stream.

I guess that's a spoiler. Yes, I did end up finishing up the game on this, the third stream. I'm honestly kind of surprised, given the fact that the first three acts were so long. But the game essentially just decided to wrap itself up pretty quickly once I hit Act 4. Honestly, they probably should've just combined 4 and 5 into a single Act. At least then it would've felt as long as the others, even if it would have still been short a single mission compared to the others. At least Act 4's missions felt longer than most of the others.

The naming structure for everything in this game feels weird. Honestly, playing a Sega game where "acts" are broken into smaller "missions" feels kind of blasphemous. Apparently, Dari suffered from the same issue, as he had difficulties when trying to articulate just how much of the game was left ahead of me.

The final portion of the game was fairly difficult, but I did manage to make it through just fine. The second-to-last boss fight was particularly annoying, but the actual final boss fight -- for as strenuous as it was -- fell a bit flat with me. Maybe if the character in question had had more presence within the story, it'd be different. Still, the whole game ended with a cavalcade of Platinum-grade setpieces, so I can't really complain.

Watching Not-President Hillary's final fate was pretty weird though. And it's a shame that the game clearly had a sequel hook... simply because it seems incredibly unlikely that Sega will either greenlight a sequel themselves or just give the IP back to Platinum to do one themselves. Still, this is probably the best third-person shooter I've ever played. Too bad that isn't saying too much, since I'm not really that big on the genre to begin with.

...I wonder if I'll like Binary Domain more than this.