Travis Touchdown picks up his beam katana again and slides right back to the bottom of the assassin rankings.

On pure gut feel, no criterion attached, the community drops it dead in the middle, ahead of barely half the games. And yet, go line by line and the picture flips. The soundtrack blows the doors off, ahead of 94% of titles. The art style follows, ahead of more than eight games out of ten. The desert island rates it very high too, though that rests on only two duels, so treat it as unconfirmed. Fun, connection, controller feel: all above average, none of them screaming. That is the tension here. Every box you tick pulls it upward, but when the choice is instinctive, it doesn't impose itself.

In a genre where beat'em ups usually get judged on the depth of their combat system, this one bets elsewhere. The punk tone, the humour, the music, the absurdity of the bosses. It is a game you remember for its attitude rather than its mechanics, and the profile says so bluntly.

So, who is it for? For you if you love games with a face, a voice, a bit of grit, and a soundtrack you will actually keep. Much less so if you want a surgical hack and slash, or a game everyone agrees on at first glance.