Oh boy, I have been dreading this for a long time. It’s time to talk about one of the scourges of the gaming world: licensed movie tie-ins. There was a point in time where you absolutely knew any game based on a movie was going to be complete trash. Developers would slap together something as quickly as they could, throw on a label and flood store shelves with it. These were almost universally shameless cash grabs designed to separate gamers, and their unassuming parents and relatives, from their hard earned money. Fortunately, that has changed to a degree as quality control has become better. But it still happens. First, a little bit about the source material for today’s game. In true “Street Fighter: The Movie” style, we have a video game that’s based on a movie that’s based on a book, the first in Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series. I remember reading the book when I was younger and thinking it...
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