Asura, the demigod who is trying to destroy the other gods for killing his wife and abducting his daughter - no one knew any other reason for video game heroes to do anything before 2015 or so - sometimes grows a few extra arms so he can punch things harder. Very little of what is going on is explained or justified, but it is always absolutely wicked.Īnd I don’t mean Devil May Cry-style wicked, with actual modern style and a sense of what’s “cool” and what’s not, but a completely self-indulgent, barely coherent style of wicked where the rule of cool controls all of existence. The joy of the game can be found in its presentation and sense of self.

The rail shooting sections aren’t horrible, but there’s only so much you can do with a rail-shooting section. Is it fun to play? To interact with? Not really quick-time events aren’t exactly challenging, and the brawling is incredibly basic compared to more recent games like Streets of Rage 4. Asura’s Wrath is approximately 70 percent cutscenes, 10 percent quick-time events, 10 percent rail-shooter, and 10 percent third-person brawler. The planet is ripped in two, because there is an evil being living inside it, and this happens in the introduction.ĭon’t worry, though-you really only have to worry about the punching, the shooting, or hitting the buttons when directly told to, and you’ll only have to focus on one of those interactions at a time. Asura is over-the-top as a character, and the world around him is even sillier and grander than anything he can possibly do. Here is the setup: You are a god, and you are betrayed, so you have to punch everything until you get what you want.

The cult classic from 2012 stars a character who never feels powerless for long, as long as there is something around to punch. If you need to take a break from that uncertainty, spend some time with Asura’s Wrath, currently on PlayStation Now. There’s not much you can do, outside of staying inside and wearing a mask when you go out, to try to stay safe and halt the spread of COVID-19, and no one knows what to expect from the timing of the vaccine rollout.

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