Holy shit, Binary Domain is fun. It's like they took the solid cover mechanics of Gears of War, rinsed the boring grimdark off, added the crazy giant robot battling fun of Vanquish, gave the game a Terminator story that isn't terrible, added the more alarmingly-frank and graphic brutality of Japanese R-rated action, crime and horror films, and then basically gave the whole thing a cast and dub that resembles some sort of hilarious hybrid of Uncharted with Resident Evil.
Basically, you are Dan, part of an international anti-illegal-robotics team called a Rust Crew. Along with a huge black man named Big Bro, a smarmy British cunt named Charles and his quiet demolitions expert lady Ms. Townsend, a sexy Chinese sniper named Faye, and a chivalrous French combat robot named Cain, you are infiltrating the isolationist walled city of future Tokyo to find out who has been building a bunch of human-mimicking robots called Hollow Children, who disturbingly even think they themselves are human. So far it's been an incredibly fun romp, and it has this odd little Trust system that basically rates your responses and performance in battle to decide if Teammates like you enough or not to follow your orders and stuff. So if you accidentally toss a grenade near your allies, fail to kill a sniper after shooting at it for ten minutes, or ignore their requests to cover them, they'll basically tell you to go fuck yourself if you want them to do something. It affects the plot as well apparently. You can even use Kinect if you want.
I really like it.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
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