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January 19th, 2010, 16:20
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2010/01/500x_custom_1263916511071_bcs1.jpgWe're not just debating the best video game of 2009 this week. We've got other awards to dole out. Today, I declare which '09 game had the best cut scenes (http://kotaku.com/tag/cutscenes/) and which was the runner-up.
Winner: Little King's Story (http://kotaku.com/tag/littlekingsstory/)
The obscure Wii-only Japanese role-playing game mixes city-building with Pikmin-style roaming-gang action with unexpectedly touching storytelling with the year's best and weirdest cut scenes. [Ready my Little King's Story review (http://kotaku.com/5323638/little-kings-story-review-so-creative-so-hostile)] This game is a Japanese RPG. Cynical as I am about the genre, I expected maudlin, melodramatic and cliched cut scenes. Instead I got loveliness like this:
Some gentle weirdness:
And some wild oddity:
I could go on...
But, really, just watch the 4-part round-up captured by YouTube user lToby7l (http://www.youtube.com/user/lToby7l) that starts here:
Runner-up: Halo Wars (http://kotaku.com/tag/halowars/)
If you want something more conventional from your cut-scenes, something that puts possible/scuttled Halo movies paradoxically preemptively to shame, there's these winning cut-scenes from Xbox 360-exclusive real-time strategy game Halo Wars.
Watch all the Halo Wars cut scenes or just jump to 20 minutes, 30 seconds for the best one:
Honorable mention: Madworld
I'm not sure if end-credits count as a cut scene, but this profane, Not Safe For Work Madworld credits sequence deserves some sort of highlight.
Look for more special-category awards from the rest of the Kotaku team throughout the week.
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Winner: Little King's Story (http://kotaku.com/tag/littlekingsstory/)
The obscure Wii-only Japanese role-playing game mixes city-building with Pikmin-style roaming-gang action with unexpectedly touching storytelling with the year's best and weirdest cut scenes. [Ready my Little King's Story review (http://kotaku.com/5323638/little-kings-story-review-so-creative-so-hostile)] This game is a Japanese RPG. Cynical as I am about the genre, I expected maudlin, melodramatic and cliched cut scenes. Instead I got loveliness like this:
Some gentle weirdness:
And some wild oddity:
I could go on...
But, really, just watch the 4-part round-up captured by YouTube user lToby7l (http://www.youtube.com/user/lToby7l) that starts here:
Runner-up: Halo Wars (http://kotaku.com/tag/halowars/)
If you want something more conventional from your cut-scenes, something that puts possible/scuttled Halo movies paradoxically preemptively to shame, there's these winning cut-scenes from Xbox 360-exclusive real-time strategy game Halo Wars.
Watch all the Halo Wars cut scenes or just jump to 20 minutes, 30 seconds for the best one:
Honorable mention: Madworld
I'm not sure if end-credits count as a cut scene, but this profane, Not Safe For Work Madworld credits sequence deserves some sort of highlight.
Look for more special-category awards from the rest of the Kotaku team throughout the week.
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