In 2010, fresh off the heels of their critical darling, Bayonetta, Platinum Games decided to make a somewhat odd and fast paced Third Person Shooter that relied on bullet-time and sliding. It was a very unique game, and a very well made one at that. Except it never struck the same cord with audiences that Bayonetta did. Vanquish is a game that I always revisit and I just wanted to figure out what's so special about this game? Why is it so addicting? Why is it still fun to revisit all these years later? Well let's find out...

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00:00 - Intro
01:52 - Premise
04:15 - Combat
11:37 - Speed & Slow-mo
15:49 - Robots, robots, & more robots
18:20 - Levels
21:12 - 7th Gen Bloom
25:10 - Banging Techno
27:13 - Plot and Twists
31:25 - Platinum's Masterpiece