It took me 10 hours on normal but the game says 5 hours and 37 mins because it doesn't record the time that I use when I restart at a checkpoint from dying or when I choose to restart a level. You would choose to restart a level if you died too many time b/c you lose 1000 points on your final score every time you die and choose to start at a checkpoint, and not restart the level.

I died 6 times on one level and kept starting back on a check point and lost 6000 points on my final score and I only earned 14000 points, lol. I died 27 times in total. This game is long and fun and I started on normal when there are 4 difficulties present: Easy, Casual, Normal and Hard.

After you beat the game you unlock "God Hard", and that probably takes days to beat. I wish Game Informer didn't do a "speed run" on easy, recorded their own time spent playing Vanquish and not reported the in-game clock.

This game is definitely a GOTY nomination and you'll enjoy it from beginning to end.

No, not a GOTY contender for me but it, also, isn't the short arsed mess some would have you think either. If, like me, you quite like testing yourself and getting high scores, seeing how quick you can do things and gener5ally improving your in game performance while uncovering new ways of playing the game Vanquish is a bit of a must play. Thing is, if that's NOT your thing and you play it like you would Gears or other more usual TPS games then you WILL feel short changed at the lack of MP and co-op modes(they wouldn't possibly work, mind, not with the moves and abilities as you'd have to lose a lot of them just to get MP/Co-op to woprk AT ALL imho).

To me there's a ton of different tactics and styles you can use and juggling them to eke out better and better level scores meant I couldn't finish the game, even on normal, in the kinds of times being reported cos I often want to restart a level after knowing I've made one or two errors early on-something that often affects me with SC and MGS games too(not for score reasons mind but just because I know I've messed up and , say, killed someone in MGS4 that I could have just knocked out and so on)-but becoomes a real habit in this game.

I also think they did a good job with varying the level design and throwing a lot of different enemy typoes and inventive bosses in your way. I predict some AMAZING Youtube speed run and "clean" run vids with the multiplyer exploding with bonuses! I haven't played any of the survival style stuff yet myself but I also imagine that will see some people being incredibly bloody good at the game. I6t's a bit love it or hate it and very easy to miss the point, I think, but I'm getting a ton of value even without MP and finding new ways to play levels almost every time I put the game back on.

I'm VERY tight with my marks for games but I'd be giving this a solid 84% and while that doesn't put it up with the VERY best games in a given year it DOES make it a game I think people must try cos if it IS for you you will get just as much out of it as you would nearly any game WITH MP cops when you think about it just how many games WITH MP do you actually end up p[laying a lot of? Two or three a year? Vanquish isn't suited to that anyway, they knew it and made it a score attack/acrcade style title and it DOES suit that and if you let it get it's hooks into you it's VERY worthwhile and good valkue. Damn the short total length when the replay is inherent but, again, ONLY if you like this sort of thing(extra speed, clean runs, score modes etc). Good and original stuff that, like Bayonetta for me, stops short of the greatest.

remember to keep sliding and do donuts!

Can you tell me how long it took you to finish the demo ?
Oh, 2 hours already ?

Nobody should listen to you either with that attitude.

I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.

I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.

What games? All recall plating was Escape from Butcher Bay.

Soma is an epic experience.

Does ISLAND have English subs ? I can’t find a copy that says it has English subs for PS only the Switch version which I rather not buy .

Love Steins Gate and Soma

Good list choice yo!