I’m a simple man. If you put a whip in your video game, I’m going to play it. The reveal trailer for MachineGames’ upcoming 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is extremely my tempo, and I can’t wait to punch some Nazis and raid some tombs as the eponymous Indy later this year. In their infinite wisdom, the developers recognized that a good Indiana Jones game ought to be built around his multifaceted and extremely cool whip. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:MachineGames said we’re in the whipping Nazis business,♍ and cousin, business is aꦚ-boomin.
Whips are so cool, dude. I know we all know how they work, but it still blows my mind to think about the physics of what a whip does. It's a lot more complicated than you’d think, and we didn’t fully understand how a whip works until high-speed cameras became widely available in the early ‘00s. But the basic premise involves flicking the whip in such a way that it creates a loop, which accelerates as it moves down the whip until it exceeds the speed of sound and creates a tiny sonic boom. At the point at which the whip breaks the sound barrier, the tip of the whip is moving as much as 30 times the speed of sound. The amount of force compacted into the tip of a whip is enough to shred through skin and even break bones - and you can do it while standing 12 feet away from your target.
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I never want to minimize or dismiss the dark history of whips. It’s important to remember the negative connotation this weapon has and how it was used as a tool of oppression against slaves throughout history, and against Black slaves in America. I also think it’s fair to say the whip has been recontextualized in pop culture over the last 100 years. Indiana Jones is the character most identified with the whip, but even he comes from a long tradition of heroic whip-wielders. Zorไro subverted the vigilante cowboy archetype all the way back in 1919, using a bullwhip to defend indigenous people. Catwoman has been using a shortened cat ‘o nine tails whip to fight injustice since the ‘40s. In fact, many of the exaggerated functions of a whip that are associated with Indy, like using it to swing across chasms or disarm foes, were first used by Catwoman.
In video games, whips have a much shorter, but equally storied history. The first example that will probably come to mind is long-dormant Konami series 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Castlevania, which gave us a whip so iconic it’s often referenced in oth🥀er vampire-related media, like the Underworld series and Vampire Survivors. Castlevania and Indie kicked off my life-long love of whips, but many other great games have featured whips too, including Street Fighter 5, Elden Ring, Darksiders 3, Soulcalibur, and my other favorite, the plasma whip from Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal. More recently, Phantom Abyss takes the violence out of the whip, using it purely as a tool for platforming, and it rules.
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Based on the trailers, Indian𒁏a Jones and The Great Circle is going to be the ultimate whip-appreciator game. We see Indy use it to trip enemies, grab their guns from them, grapple onto a zeppelin, swing down from a ledge to surprise an enemy, and yoink a bad guy right into a mean left hook. At one point it looks like he even uses a whip crack to deflect a bullet. This is the evolution of whip gameplay we’ve been waiting for. The combination of brutal long range weapon, tactical combat tool, platforming, and puzzle solving. In Kojima’s metaphor about the stick and the rope, the whip is both. I can’t wait to whip my way through The Great Circle later this year. May its success inspire the whip renaissance we deserve (looking at you, Konami).
