Unskippable: Death by Degrees

[SnakeoilSage]

Boy you can really tell how Nina is such an engaging and nuanced character. The way she breaks the laws of physics and is just going through the motions of normal activities like sunbathing and swimming to hide the fact that she's an emotionally dead psychopath.

 

[K84]

The controls for this game were extremly dumb

No kidding! We tried to play a little bit after we recorded and it was ridiculous.

Playing this game is madness.
I needed a mental Post-It to remind myself of the seriously retarded control scheme.
Gawd, fell so hard for the cheesecake back then....

Behold the madness:
http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=45184&tab=controls

 

[leviadragon99]

Dafuqaduck did I just watch? So we have a martial artist cagefight-murdering in international waters on a cruiseship with no discernable connection to the secret-agent bermuda-triangle mutant camera conspiracy malarky, genre soup anyone?

 

[5-0]

Ah, so it's an adventure game set in the Bermuda Triangle. No wait. Ah, it's a UFC type fighting game. Nope. Oh I see now, it's a Stealthy Splinter Cell type affair. Not that either. Huh. Oh right, it's basically Dead or Alive. Or is it?

 

[TheOrb]

Nice, Steve Blum.

 

[iniudan]

I am not Irish but still of Celtic ancestry (Briton to be exact) and agree it take an eternity to tan, since I cannot tan at all, for me it is pale, red or burned. =p

I don't actually have red hair, but I does have the gene for still got some facial freckle and a section of my beard is indeed red haired.

 

[Draconalis]

Graphically speaking... that looked REALLY good for a ps2 game.

 

[commasplice]

Is that Dave Hayter. . . .?
The narrator in the beginning, I mean. Sounds like Solid Snake to me, anyway.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Out of all the Tekken characters they could have chosen, they went for Nina? Who wouldn't want to play a game as Yoshimitsu or Roger? Yoshimitsu would totally look better in that bikini!

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Hey, I didn't know Scott Mitchell was at the bottom of the ocean.

Is that Dave Hayter. . . .?
The narrator in the beginning, I mean. Sounds like Solid Snake to me, anyway.

Steve Blum. He does lots and lots of voices for games, animes and cartoons.

 

[commasplice]

Hey, I didn't know Scott Mitchell was at the bottom of the ocean.

Is that Dave Hayter. . . .?
The narrator in the beginning, I mean. Sounds like Solid Snake to me, anyway.

Steve Blum. He does lots and lots of voices for games, animes and cartoons.

Ah, thanks! That explains why he sounded so familiar. Gotta respect a man who's voiced Wolverine, Roger Smith and Spike Spiegel.

 

[Sampsa]

Quality of Unskippable was in downhill for a long time, but this PS2 month really has been a pleasure. Please continue your good work.

 

[The Random One]

I like how you were pondering on the game's title during the gratuitous bikini scene, and when it started didn't even stutter. That's dedication to the craft, right there.

"Women in bikinis? Pfft, this is the internet - that kind of shit's everywhere. Now, baseless speculation on what a game's title actually should mean.... well actually that's kind of everywhere as well, but we take pride on our own."

 

[Quinterfresh]

Just to put this in perspective, I'm a fair-skinned redheaded irishman, and let me tell you when I achieve a "tan" after about 2 weeks of layering sunburns of about 10 mins/day, it's the equivalent hue of an Italian during the winter. It's really too much work to achieve so little.

 

[Evil Smurf]

So, uh... What is this game? A Fighting game? A brawler? Stealth action?
And what is it about? What's up with the Bermuda Triangle? Is it 1945 or the present?

I'm confuzzled.

A fishing game Punches are how you fish

 

[Endocrom]

The Devil's frozen methane deposit.

Now THAT has a nice ring to it.

 

[The__Doctor]

Good to see that the inverse law of kicking-ass ability is still in effect: the less armor you wear, the harder it is for "them" to beat you.

Mind you.. usually only applies to agents/soldiers of the female variety and midriffs should be visible at all times.

 

[O maestre]

"a pair of shoes and a broom!?" that line floored me lol keep up the awesome job dudes

 

[vxicepickxv]

"a pair of shoes and a broom!?" that line floored me lol keep up the awesome job dudes

I was partial to the UFC X-Ray joke myself, because I thought about it for a second, and then realized it was technically correct, then best kind of correct.

 

[DeManix]

I'm glad someone remembered that Nina is supposed to be Irish, because Namco sure don't. Great episode today, anytime someone makes fun of Death by Degrees is good, it's a game that had potential (Tekken spinoff with one of the more popular characters fronting it) but they blew it completely with a retarded control scheme and a bad story. Nina deserves better.