Scott Pilgrim was a dick and I loathed him, but then he became significantly less of a dick and I loved him. Throughout the course of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s 30-something issues, Scott stared down his past dickish actions and reckoned with the hurt he inflicted. What emerged was a better human being, and a graphic novel series that would rightly go down as one of the best in recent memory.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The GameDeveloper: Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft ChengduPublisher: UbisoftPlatform: Played on SwitchAvailability: Out January 14th on Switch, Xbox One, PS4, PC and Stadia
But what happens when you strip away the growing pains of Scott Pilgrim as a character, removing all the strife and heartache he both doles out and shoulders throughout O’Malley’s saga? You’re left with a guy punching people and robots so hard they explode, I suppose.
That’s what Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game is, in short. It’s a collection of Scott’s toughest battles and biggest throwdowns, taken out of context and stitched together from the series on which it’s based. It’s cutting and pasting the page-churning showdowns against foes like Todd, Lucas Lee, Matthew Patel, and more into back-to-back gauntlets, throwing a horde of disposal minions in between each boss for good measure.
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After launching over a decade ago in 2010, Ubisoft delisted Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game in late 2014, after the license for their adaptation expired. There’s naturally a state of curiosity around something that’s deleted from the digital aether (looking at you, P.T.), so it’s easy to see why so many Scott Pilgrim fans are looking to get their hands on the retro beat ’em up, nearly a whole seven years after it was vanquished.