10 Video Game Genre Flips That Blew Our MIND
4. Asura’s Wrath
Oh, what an absolutely bizarre and brilliant gem this title was. Released in a year packed with iconic entries from the Far Cry, Borderlands, and Call of Duty franchises, this weird Capcom game didn’t stand a blooming chance… and it didn’t help that it felt as relentlessly erratic as a kid who just vacuumed up their entire Halloween stash.
Playing as Asura, betrayed by his fellow demigod protectors of Heaven and Earth (bear with me here). The game drops players straight into a bombastic god-tier battle that made the recently released God of War 3 look like your nan’s tea party by comparison - at one point, it literally has the gamer fight an opponent wielding a weapon the size of a planet. Right from the off, it makes clear its mandate: a caffeine-fuelled hybrid of Dragon Ball Z and a Kratos-style QTE revenge quest.
Well… it doesn’t stop there.
Soon, it throws the campaign into awkward on-rails shooting sections, frantic third-person combat, and eventually morphs into what’s essentially an interactive anime series with zero warning. It’s a lot, coming at the screen all at once, and the gameplay itself doesn’t always stick. But... It’s so OTT, unique, and unpredictable that it ends up being engaging from beginning to end - a rare feat in modern gaming.