![]() ![]() The concept of a otherwise outrageous brawler appears to be business as usual for developer Platinum Games, considering past output like Bayonetta and Vanquish, but this entry feels like a direct homage to their Capcom/Clover Studio title God Hand, a game that not enough people played, while also serving as a very loose spiritual sequel to the black ‘n white bruiser MadWorld. The synopsis is pretty transparent and serves little more than an excuse to roam the game’s dystopian casinos and Chinatown-themed ghettos while pummeling scores of mutated street thugs and titans into grounded flesh. Simple stuff for a game with simple ambitions bloody deaths, done in the most creative ways possible. ![]() ![]() From the moment the first loading screen pops up the entire plot of the game is distilled in a few paragraphs of scrolling text and little else: the world as we knew it has been transformed into a radioactive hell where disfigured mutants and prosthetic-enhanced humans fight to exist. Perhaps one of the most honest and literal titles that I’ve seen in some time, Platinum Games’ latest action-oriented brawler continues the strange developer’s quest to create some of the most indefinable, yet savagely brutal, games out there. Anarchy Reigns cares very little about masterful storytelling, only disembowelment. ![]()
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