Articles tagged swords

Wow. There are very few games that can leave you speechless and perhaps a little confused upon completion but Bayonetta is certainly one of them. Once you've hacked and slashed your way through the game you'll have massacred hundreds of angels, ridden missiles across the ocean, tortured cherubs, battled dragons while plummeting through mid-air and even have driven a motor bike up the side of a rocket on its way to outer space. Make no mistake; Bayonetta is excessive, gratuitous, exploitative and ludicrous, it also happens to be a whole load of fun.

In the poorly animated opening cinematic of Risen, you’re on a ship destroyed by tempestuous seas, apparently created by evil magic. You one other survivor are washed ashore with naught to your name but some ragged clothes and soon find a big stick to hit the nearby vultures with. Sara and yourself will then make it inland a bit. There, some of the basic mechanics of resting and healing are explained. From that point the whole island is yours to roam, but you’ll not survive without joining up with one of the nearby factions.