I watched this last trailer again just now, twice. It's going on my best trailers ever list. It's a bit too long for its own good, i.e. to be a really aesthetically great trailer, but at this point I don't care because I like to see as much of the game as I can. Maybe they'll release a tighter version in the future, in which case that's the one I'll put on my list.
The game, by the way, appears as philosophically significant as The Dark Knight was. Check out some lines from the trailer. The first could have come right out of Baudrillard, the other two from Nietzsche.
In a world of asymmetric war, where you don't know who you are fighting, it's hard to know what you are fighting for.
After the fall of the Sons of the Patriots, cyber technology runs rampant and information flows freely, but the truth is lost on those who refuse to see. And when the battle raging around you reflects the battle within, the only path back to the light, is through the darkness.
I told myself this was about justice, about protecting the weak. But I was wrong.
And it's all topped off by the game's amazing message of:
MAKE IT RIGHT
which is blasted in your face right at the moment when your character draws his sword and is about to go on a killing rampage, reflecting one of the ultimate insights of my philosophy, which I expound in the upcoming Orgy of the Will, that violence is ALWAYS the solution -- the first, the only, and the
final one.
The fags will of course deny that this game utterly fucking trounces all fagot games ever, not only mechanically and aesthetically, but also philosophically, because it has men in it lol, but they are fags so what do they know.
And yeah, mechanically it looks insane. The history of the 3D third-person action game goes basically something like this:
Onimusha, Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta*, Metal Gear Rising
At some point Gears of War came in and, well... complexified things even more, but the fusion of melee and ranged-weapon systems hasn't been accomplished yet -- though this game appears to be moving in that direction, with all the shootan going on in the trailer.
Onimusha really was the first 3D action game where the additional possibilities in the extra dimension began to really be explored -- even if it wasn't a full-on 3D game. It certainly beat in the quality of its combat all previous 3D action games that I, at least, have sampled -- and I can safely say I've sampled most. And things went on from there. Itagaki's Devil Third had until recently been one of the possibilities for the raising of the genre to a new level, but, from what we've seen of it so far at least, it's nowhere near Rising, even though they do seem to be going in the same general direction (i.e. the fighting resembling, as closely as possible, anime action scenes).
So, this is really on the top 5 upcoming games list -- perhaps even top 3. But it comes below Far Cry 3 and GTAV, simply because it's not free-roaming, and the free-roaming genre is the best ever. But still, the various parts of the genre of the future have to be assembled at first piecemeally before they can be put together, and I, for one, am looking forward to the time when a game of the type of Far Cry 3 will feature fighting mechanics right out of Metal Gear Rising (and narrative out of Deus Ex, and aesthetics made in Japan, and music by Harry Gregson-Williams, and you get the picture).
Meanwhile Derek Yu is still trying to make a sprite jump properly in Game Maker, and claiming that his games are better and have more soul than all the above-mentioned because, in contrast to Ubisoft, Rockstar and Platinum Games, he is "independent" -- i.e. alone, incompetent, untalented and poor.
*Provisional entry: I need to play the game longer to make the call, so wait for that.