Each of the controller’s buttons controls a specific aspect of fight or flight with the right analog stick reserved for evasive rolls (a Godsend). With grapples, pounces, counters, light and heavy melee strikes, and ranged attacks all at your disposal, the ability to unleash some truly hellacious combos become satisfyingly second nature as you progress.

There are a lot of cool perks inherent with being a reviewer of video games — in fact, I’d conservatively estimate the pro-con ratio to be somewhere in the 50-to-1 range. That said; one of those drawbacks is pushing through some major difficulty spikes in order to finish a game on a deadline when you’d rather step away and regroup. The result: controller tossing.