Requital: Lamest…Trailer…Ever

Requital Trailer
Every year, in the days surrounding E3, it seems we are sometimes bombarded with new information on games that look too good for words. And then there’s this trailer for Requital. This has to be about the worst trailer for a game I have seen a long while. All it shows is someone playing the game while basically reading from the back of its box. If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was a parody of a game trailer made by some prolific YouTuber. I could describe the game’s story myself, but I think it can be best summed up by the description from the developers:

“Your name is Wolfhound. You are the last of your clan. You were taken screaming from your mother’s breast and enslaved, whilst your parents were murdered at the hands of a murderous butcher. You now have your freedom and there is only one thought on your mind – revenge! All you remember about the person who ripped your family apart is the weapon he used and the mark on his hand. Your quest is to find him and make him pay for the death of your family with his death – by your sword.”

Someone needs to give the guy who wrote this a medal. They managed to take a story about vengeance, kidnapping, and murder and make it sound tame and uninspiring. That and they named the main character “Wolfhound.” What? Was “Foxdog” taken? The game actually doesn’t look that terrible, just derivative and unoriginal. But this trailer just makes want to avoid this game like I’d avoid a monkey with a fistful of feces.