Ugly, dated in design, fairly generic and full of badly-executed camp, Vanquish sits alongside The Evil Within as another miss from Shinji Mikami. While its booster-sprint and bullet time mechanics are cool enough, they don't serve as great motivators to sit through the rest of what is an otherwise unremarkable spectacle fighter/TPS hybrid. I got about halfway through its slim 6-hour runtime and already feel worn out on its tired formula of cover-shooting, slow-mo and quicktime events. Definitely a product of its time and while it may have stood out in 2010, it does not hold up today, unlike Mikami's own REmake and RE4.

Ugly, dated in design, fairly generic and full of badly-executed camp, Vanquish sits alongside The Evil Within as another miss from Shinji Mikami. While its booster-sprint and bullet time mechanics are cool enough, they don't serve as great motivators to sit through the rest of what is an otherwise unremarkable spectacle fighter/TPS hybrid. I got about halfway through its slim 6-hour runtime and already feel worn out on its tired formula of cover-shooting, slow-mo and quicktime events. Definitely a product of its time and while it may have stood out in 2010, it does not hold up today, unlike Mikami's own REmake and RE4.