Bottle Rockets
Vanquish is a game that shouldn't exist. It's a third-person shooter, at the very core a Gears of War clone-type-thing, set around the typical tropes of taking cover to blindfire, holding a button to sprint, and having limited access to the amount of weapons and grenades you can hold at once. But on the other hand, it's developed by Shinji Mikami, reknowned Japanese video-game developer, and creator of games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta. I mean, sure, this sort of "mash-up," if you will, makes sense, in a perverse sort of way, and it works - really, really well, too. But it's the sort of game that you can imagine being bought up as a joke - "yo guys, what if Shinji Mikami made Gears of War?" Y'see? That's just a joke concept. The game isn't a joke, in fact it's fantastic, but the root idea of the game is... intriguing, to say the least.
