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15 years later, Scott Pilgrim EX proves that Toronto's most problematic bass player has what it takes to become beat-em-up royalty in 2025
This is a beat-em-up as relevant and adapted for 2025 as the original game was to 2010.
I only played a 30-minute demo at Gamescom, but it's like listening to the lead single off a band's comeback album: it sets the scene, gives a sense of what's to come, paints the sonic landscape for you, and gets you hyped. High praise during a packed Gamescom show where my next appointment was Silent Hill f. To give me a true sense of how it should be played, two devs joined me in my session, and the frantic melee on-screen as we hopped around the beaches (!?) Attribution Lucas Lee and Roxie Richter join the fray.In true side-scroller fashion, the various environs are littered with intractable elements: skateboards to dash in on, volleyballs you could charge and throw to ricochet violently between the fretting goons on-stage, dropped weapons you could wail on vegans with until they broke.
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