If I were referring to the game itself rather than the cutscenes this game could win the reverse of this award. The combat is some of the top in its field. By the end of the game I found myself feeling awesome in battle every 30 seconds. It’s over all too fast. The cutscenes however opt for a different kind of cool, the cool that a 13 year old thinks is cool. Occasionally a character might say something funny or there’ll be a humorous sequence as the camera tries to obscure Dante’s inferno* from view, but mostly it’s a lot of lazy eff-bombs. This tedium isn’t mirrored in the level or enemy design however. I should also stress that this is not some attack on the series’ new direction with its slim and boyish but not also white-haired protagonist that so angered the internet. The other games were stupid too, just in a different way.

*Was that euphemism obvious enough?

If I were referring to the game itself rather than the cutscenes this game could win the reverse of this award. The combat is some of the top in its field. By the end of the game I found myself feeling awesome in battle every 30 seconds. It’s over all too fast. The cutscenes however opt for a different kind of cool, the cool that a 13 year old thinks is cool. Occasionally a character might say something funny or there’ll be a humorous sequence as the camera tries to obscure Dante’s inferno* from view, but mostly it’s a lot of lazy eff-bombs. This tedium isn’t mirrored in the level or enemy design however. I should also stress that this is not some attack on the series’ new direction with its slim and boyish but not also white-haired protagonist that so angered the internet. The other games were stupid too, just in a different way. *Was that euphemism obvious enough?