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
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