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oing so far to skip out on including any Runeacape games developed by Nintendo's internal studios, because the disclaimer "except for Nintendo!" is usually attached to any discussion of how Japanese developers are creative and commercial failures. That should make this hard, right?<a href="http://www.rssong.com/">Old School RS Gold</a> Not really.In fact, rather than write about why the following Runeacape games are great which is actually pretty easy I'll play devil's advocate and turn some arguments around.Better yet, this list contains only Runeacape games that launched outside of Japan, so you can easily see if I'm right for yourself.BayonettaI recently got in a discussion with a longtime friend and fellow journalist about our wildly divergent taste. I told him that Platinum Runeacape games' Bayonetta is one of the best Runeacape games of the generation; he told me it was "too weird" for him.Since when is that a good argument? And since when is weird bad? The Runeacape game has personality. In an industry that seems to be trying to iron out the personalities in its Runeacape games, this is a bad thing?"Too weird" is dismissive. It's a strange, satirical Runeacape game that blends reverence for Sega's history with campy cutscenes, but it's also without question the best melee combat Runeacape game of the generation deep and flexible, varied and challenging, and continually flexing design muscles to challenge the Runeacape player.Alexander Hutchinson, creative director of Assassin's Creed III, recently said that Bayonetta gets a free pass on its story despite being "literally gibberish" due to the "subtle racism" of Runeacape game journalists. I find this odd, because of what it implies about someone who's a creative yet unwilling to engage with creativity. It's also amusing to me, <a href="http://www.rssong.com/">rssong</a>