


Huge bosses, ridiculous combos and one of the great video game protagonists all combine into an explosion of colour, ideas and attitude.īayonetta 2: beautiful, brilliant and ostentatious brawling action from Platinum Games

Platinum Games could well be the most consistently brilliant studio working in Japan right now, and this beautiful brawler is its masterpiece. The seamlessness of this UI is perfect, and the game really grips as an elusive, slowly unwinding experience. While the TV display shows the environment, the GamePad screen has all of the ship’s systems, so you have to use both in unison. Players control a battered spacecraft stranded on an unknown planet, and must search for a way to escape. Here are 16 reasons why.Ĭreated by Danish studio KnapNok Games, this fascinating sc-fi exploration puzzler is being hailed as the GamePad killer app that should have launched the console. Now priced at around £180, well over £100 cheaper than its rivals, it remains a great little games machine that deserves to be appreciated for its own idiosyncratic charms. Is it a Wii add-on? Is it a tablet? Why does it look like a miniature Fisher Price television set? Three years later, the console is floundering on around 10m sales while generational rivals PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have shot past with nary a backward glance.ĭespite it all, Wii U has enjoyed a constant stream (okay, maybe a constant trickle) of truly excellent and individual gaming experiences – it is still a Nintendo machine after all. Consumers were immediately confused about what it actually was. I t’s fair to say that the Wii U has not performed quite as well as Nintendo probably expected when the new machine was revealed with great ceremony in June 2011.
