Bears In Games - Super Slash Greek Heroes

Rise of the Argonauts, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Muscle March all
get their chance to show off the biggest, burliest, and Greekiest
of musclemen in this episode of Bears In Games!


First: Rise of the Argonauts! You think a game set in the Greek
era with huge and muscular bearish guys would be easy to do an
episode on. Hm. Nope. Mostly I just gripe about the terrible
writing and pacing of the cutscenes. The game itself, when
there is combat, actually plays nicely. Combat is fun, and the
combos work well. Hercules is hot - really hot - but that
doesn't save the game from being mostly mind numbing. That's
too bad. Also: it breaks! Twice!





Then we have the Batman. Or is it just Batman? After a brief
aside in which I mourn the loss of Siren: Blood Curse from my
PS3 hard drive, I plow ahead to check out Rocksteady's Batman:
Arkham Asylum. Yep, Batman's pretty beefy in this game. But
that doesn't make Batman a bear, does it? We take a brief trip
through Batman's history to see where and when he can be
considered bearish. Other topics come up too, like: I would
make a terrible superhero, Bane is sometimes super hot, and
lobotomized musclebears, hot or not?





Finally, we close out with the straightest game of all time!
After sitting on my Wii's SD card for nearly a month, I break
out my copy of Muscle March and record - live - my first five
minutes of playing it. It's quite something. The mechanics are
quite simple, it just reads the up and down tilt sensors in the
Wiimote. But! Muscle men! Thongs! Bears! Gaiety! An opening
which looks like a weird mashup of Cho Aniki and Katamari
Damacy!