Weāre not just debating the best video game of 2009 this week. Weāve got other awards to dole out. Today, I declare which ā09 game had the best cut scenes and which was the runner-up.
Winner: Little Kingās Story
The obscure Wii-only Japanese role-playing game mixes city-building with Pikmin-style roaming-gang action with unexpectedly touching storytelling with the yearās best and weirdest cut scenes. [Read my Little Kingās Story review] 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:
https://lastchance.cc/little-kings-story-review-so-creative-so-hostile-5323638%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Some gentle weirdness:
And some wild oddity:
I could go onā¦
But, really, just watch the 4-part round-up captured by YouTube user lToby7l that starts here:
Runner-up: Halo Wars
If you want something more conventional from your cut-scenes, something that puts possible/scuttled Halo movies paradoxically preemptively to shame, thereās 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 mentions:
Madworld
Iām 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.
andā¦ Uncharted 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAb3ynv-vp0
Look for more special-category awards from the rest of the Kotaku team throughout the week.
