Yes really.
You can play Vanquish like a basic cover shooter but that would be completely missing the point of what makes the game special.
Who gives a shit about rank? It's about having all these cool mechanics at your disposal and feeling like a badass. I wouldn't love DMC or Bayonetta any less if they didn't have ranking systems.
It's like that guy in the DMC5 thread who thought he was special because he spammed a basic combo to get through DMC1-4.
To be fair I haven't really delved into Vanquish, but I do say "not in the slightest" to DMC, Bayo and God Hand. What disingenuous nonsense.
The rank and difficulty in those games encourages you to play with the depth on offer. If you didn't give a shit about rank, you would spam the one combo on a low difficulty and likely spam health items and yellow orbs. The games punish you for playing like shit. Resident Evil 6 does not. It has very poor campaign design.
I'll go a step further and say the shooting is bad in RE6, so RE6 only offers something as a melee game. And as a melee game, there's far better shit out there, like DMC, Bayo, and God Hand, for instance. More like a zombie musou featuring guns and the same canned execution animation for an enemy 30+ times per Mercs run. Pure gaming bliss.
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