I've been dabbling with Rocket League in-between playing Arkham Knight. It's great fun, but I am struggling to see how I'll ever become properly good at it. I hit the odd good shot, mostly down to good fortune, the ball nicely rolling into my path on the end of a turbo boost. Air control seems a complete mystery to me currently, and the idea of team work, with players actually passing the ball, something I've heard about but never actually experienced. Hopefully one day I'll make the jump from fumbling amateur to seasoned pro, but it might take some time.
Oh dear. We all knew Godzilla was bad, but we didn't know it was this bad. Yes, it's been ported from the PS3, but that's no excuse: they had graphics on the PS3 last time they checked, and not just boxes that vaguely resembled buildings. Oh, and then there's the controls, which see Godzilla turn not using the right stick but via L1 and R1, like a helicopter in a GTA game. And while all of that is indeed awful, there's also the fact that boss encounters - where you should be able to at least glean some excitement out of being king of the monsters - is reduced to hitting triangle to roundhouse whip your enemy like a Marvel version of Jean-Claude Van-Damme.
Avoid.
I'm not going to lie: there's something about Devil's Third's crude presentation and silly head-popping gameplay that I've developed a bit of a soft spot for. But is it something that I could honestly recommend spending £40 on? Going by the first couple of hours, probably not.
You only need to watch some gameplay footage to see why. Devil's Third feels like a relic from the mid-00s, a so-bad-it's-good shooter that lacks the polish and production values you'd expect from a modern AAA title (and particularly one from Nintendo), but that is inexplicably moreish.
I wonder if Nintendo knows it, too - its vague response to rumours suggesting it may have pulled out of publishing it in America perhaps say it all. But while it has my curiosity (I've heard rumours of - whisper it - zombies and mutants popping up later on), at the moment, Devil's Third sadly seems like one of those guilty pleasures destined for the bargain bin.
