Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Revengeance

Sounds to me like somebody has just dethroned Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for "worst video game title ever."  Tetsuya Nomura's esoteric titles at least usually make you pause for a split-second before determining that they are complete rubbish.  This, on the other hand, is immediately and aggressively stupid.  It's Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, folks!


I have little doubt that this title came directly from the top, Hideo Kojima himself, the man who brought us "Transfarring."  I sincerely believe that Kojima, with his limited grasp of English, doesn't realize how stupid a title this is.  But this is one of those (many) times when one of the many native English speakers working for him should have the stones to speak up and tell him it's no good.  It's a sad testimony to just how bad it is that I'm actually hoping that "Revengeance" is an intentional reference to the 1969 Supreme Court case involving the Ku Klux Klan.

4 comments:

Czardoz said...

I don't know why you're bothered; it's a perfectly cromulent word.

Czardoz said...

I watched the trailer, and is it just me, or is this more than a little gross? I mean, I loved Subutai, but this new game seems to treat the slicing up of a body into dozens of little pieces as a cool thing. Subutai was funny, but it wasn't meant to be cool. And Subutai's signature moves were decapitations and halving bodies. This MG Rising is moving into Itchy and Scratchy territory. And I don't even get why they're still fighting!

Henry said...

Does it make it any less gross that everybody in the trailer appears to be a cyborg?

Czardoz said...

Well that's just offensive, because they're just telling you not to feel bad because no humes were harmed in the making of this video game. Why not just have them all "go to another dimension" when they get skewered?