Best Video Game Cut Scenes of 2009

We’re not just debating the best video game of 2009 this week. We’ve got other awards to dole out. Today, I declare which ’09 game had the best cut scenes and which was the runner-up. Winner: Little King’s Story The obscure Wii-only Japanese role-playing game mixes city-building with Pikmin-style roaming-gang action with unexpectedly touching storytelling with the year’s best and weirdest cut scenes. [Read my Little King’s Story review] This game is a Japanese RPG. Cynical as I am about u31 ทางเข้า the genre, I expected maudlin, melodramatic and cliched cut scenes. Instead I got loveliness like this:(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); https://kotaku.com/little-kings-story-review-so-creative-so-hostile-5323638 Some gentle weirdness: And some wild oddity: I could go on… But, really, just watch the 4-part round-up captured by YouTube user lToby7l that starts here: Runner-up: Halo Wars If you want something more conventional from your cut-scenes, something that puts possible/scuttled Halo movies paradoxically preemptively to shame, there’s these winning cut-scenes from Xbox 360-exclusive real-time strategy game Halo Wars. Watch all the Halo Wars cut scenes or just u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ jump to 20 minutes, 30 seconds for the best one: Honorable mentions: ทางเข้า winner55 ผ่านโทรศัพท์ มือ ถือ Madworld I’m not sure if end-credits count as a cut scene, but this profane, Not Safe For Work Madworld credits sequence deserves some sort of highlight. and… Uncharted 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAb3ynv-vp0 Look for more special-category awards from the rest of the Kotaku team throughout the week.