^ With violent, I meant fast-paced and hard action. It doesn't necessarily have to be bloody - after all, NMH's European edition wasn't bloody either - it just has to give you a rush which is less present when you are 'bashing goombas with a hammer'. Sorry for the awkward choice of words.
And Mad World also crossed my mind - while I'm 90% sure the game will be amazing, it will probably not be the kind of game I'm talking about, because it doesn't look fast-paced. If you'd compare it to, say, Ninja Gaiden, you'd see that the game is wholly different - focusing more on the gory, violent aspect than on jumping around and being everywhere at once, hacking away at everyone. So let me redefine 'fast-paced violent action game':
A (third-person) action game which focuses on combat and as a result has a relatively deep combat system, further characterised by a high battle speed and regular storms of violence where you are beating up several foes at once.
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