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Shinji Mikami

035: Vanquish

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We rocket slide around Shinji Mikami’s space station in Vanquish.

Developer: PlatinumGames | Publisher: Sega | Release Date: October 19, 2010

Jacob, Mike and Moe jettison off to space, power-slide and flip around the environment, overheat, upgrade some weapons and then take on Russia.

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Players: Jacob McCourt (@JacobMcCourt), Michael Ruffolo (@ruffolom) and Moe Murtadi (@mmurtadi)

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Show Notes (spoilers):

  • 2:00 The pedigree of Mr. Shinji Mikami
  • 4:15 Moe brings up his love of Metal Gear Rising
  • 5:20 Jacob sets up the game and Mike sets up Dyson spheres
  • 6:25 ? + ? = Vanquish
  • 8:00 R.I.P. San Francisco
  • 10:35 Mike’s biggest pet peeve about Vanquish
  • 12:10 Moe’s pulls a “Kevin”
  • 13:10 What is Vanquish actually?
  • 15:05 The melee attack
  • 17:15 We start the discussion about weapons
  • 21:10 We chat about AI
  • 23:10 The different enemy types
  • 25:40 Mike’s favorite weapon: the Disc Gun
  • 28:40 Fear of the unknown
  • 30:40 The different difficulty levels
  • 34:05 The ultimate game of Limbo
  • 35:10 Vanquish’s level design
  • 38:10 The graphics
  • 40:35 The story is non-sense?
  • 44:35 Jacob brings up Binary Domain #BigBo
  • 46:25 “That’s so anime”
  • 49:05 The game’s UI
  • 49:40 Using slowdown
  • 51:20 Final thoughts about Vanquish
  • 52:40 Vanquish 2?
  • 53:40 Jacob sold a copy of Vanquish to a GameStop employee