Only fifteen minutes into this game and I felt desperate for any other videogame to strike at the level of style that permeates this beast. Main menu, loading screen, chapter start, character select, pause menu: it's all bespokely aestheticized.

I was expecting some degree of spicy flavor from the presentation. I was expecting bonkers cutscenes and plot beats. What I wasn't expecting was such interesting writing overtop all of it. Whether it's a severed head in a dryer or a thrusting man wearing a HUSTLE tank-top, these characters spit fire.