When Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was announced I was pretty excited. First of all, it's a game developed by Team Ninja, the developers behind one of my favorite - yet underrated - PS3 titles, Heavenly Sword, that alone guaranteed my release-day purchase. Enslaved is a gorgeous platforming action-adventure game inspired by the Chinese novel "Journey to the West," and the History Channel apocalyptic documentary "Life After People."
The game stars Monkey and Trip, two humans that are being taken by enslavers aboard a ship. Trip, being a tech genious, manages to escape her containment cell and heads to an escape pod. Monkey, using brute strength breaks the containment cell and follows her. After managing to escape and while Monkey is unconscious, Trip puts a headband on Monkey which will allow her to "enslave" him and if he disobeyes a command will be in pain, if he hurts her or she dies - he dies!
