Okay, I'm one of those people who plays games for story and cutscenes a lot, so I kind of loath the other twisted metal games aside from maybe 1, I like black, but I didn't care about the characters that much, dark and extreme doesn't necessarily mean good, but definitely a step in the right direction, and the others.... The goofiness is not... For me, sweet tooth wishing for all the sweetes in the world, wow, just wow. And that's just the beginning of how bad the stories get, but they always had pretty fun gameplay.
So naturally I was pretty interested in this, and this game has a soundtrack in my top 5, and one of the best stories in gaming, it's good it's real good. It's actually too good, let me explain, so focusing on three characters means they miles of development. Take Mr Grimm for exampl, fighting to save his father, and his young self from the pain that led him to kill, desperate for redemption. What does he do? He... Races. And fights weird mechs. Why?! It's too much to go back to that style, maybe it's just because I'm not a car person, but it's kind of hard to turn stories like this into a video game.
While sweet tooth is by far my favorite in this, dollface takes a close second, she may have a better origin, but every action she takes makes sense for her, and you can by her motivation of being pushed by extremely poor mental health and insecurity, but sweet tooth has better filmed cutscenes and voice acting.
Just saying, calypso looks like Adam sandler, I don't know if it's a pro or a con, so it's going here.
Now enough of how great that stuff is, and onto the flaws that bring it down. I don't like the gameplay, it's pretty smooth, but sometimes it's pretty bad. The races are IMPOSSIBLE. I had to bring a friend in just to beat them, as for the combat, it's hard to aim, and sometimes annoying, but still okay. As for the big flaws? THE BOSSES. I HATE THE BOSSES. No boss except for the first land, at all. The dollface mech makes no sense for character or story, and is boring. The best they could come up with to combat it, is to collect thugs, drag them to a truck, and turn them into remote missiles to launch them into the weak spots. This takes so long, even when your over the average level of experience with the game, it's just pure boring. But by far the worst boss has to be, the final boss, sweet tooths carnival of carnage. Again, it tried to be classic, with the impractical cartoonyness, so it doesn't make sense. YOU CANT HAVE THE STYLE AND REALISM OF THE CUTSCENES, AND THE CLASSIC GOOFYNESS. this boss is pure monotony. It's not hard, you die, but it's a good two to three hours you won't get back.
This game is okay, it's not worth playing really, if you like good stories, go watch the cutscenes on YouTube, if you like good music, go find the soundtrack desperately.
