Joseph Luster

So it looks like God Hand has been getting a lot of mediocre press as far as reviews go. That’s too bad. While the game is sort of an awesome mess to put it lightly, it’s about as pure as the beat-em-up genre has been in a long time.

Seriously, if there’s one thing we should all be able to agree on, it’s the fact that the fighting is amazing in this game. It’s so gleefully over-the-top, exciting and hilarious. It’s immensely satisfying to get in the groove of the controls and watch Gene bob and weave as you prepare to dodge the next set of fruitless punches from a hot-headed enemy, or dive straight in with a spinning roundhouse that sends everyone flying.

If Okami is Clover’s calling card that proves they can handle the Zelda formula as well as anyone at Nintendo, then God Hand is their big after party, replete with plenty of health-bar-filling fruits that help wash away that staining taste of blood.

Update: How sad is it, in the wake of this praising post, to be hit with the news of Clover’s closing?