There's a lot to love once the shuriken start flying (along with corpse puppets... and animated wood... and crazy magical eyeballs...), but you've got to put up with an awful lot
of bumf to get to the good stuff.
There's a trial mode in which you can play individual stages without any of the surrounding
story bumf.
The site features the standard
promotional bumf, but does a good job of showing off the film's lavish technical credits, particularly Consolata Boyle's costumes and Alexandre Desplat's lovely score, which is actually more delicate than the selected excerpt here suggests.
DVD Extras An audio commentary, five deleted scenes, some
background bumf you have to read off the screen (am I just being cynical here, or is nobody EVER going to read all that stuff?)
Too much exposition and over-characterisation would have drowned the core gameplay in
unnecessary bumf.
This was confirmed yesterday when I read a stack of
cruise bumf.
In fact, these descriptors were gleaned from a well - known Scotch whisky distiller's
corporate bumf.
Playing in co-op skips the
story bumf and just lets you pick a mission.
Luckily
the bumf also talks of a «stiffer bodyshell, uprated suspension, lower gearing, enhanced dynamics, and new Recaro sports seats».
There's not an inch of fat on it,
no bumf or unnecessary filler.