It’s easy to feel powerless in 2021.
There’s not much you can do, outside of staying inside and wearing a mask when you go out, to try to stay safe and halt the spread of COVID-19, and no one knows what to expect from the timing of the vaccine rollout. If you need to take a break from that uncertainty, spend some time with
Asura’s Wrath, currently on PlayStation Now. The cult classic from 2012 stars a character who
never feels powerless for long, as long as there is something around to punch.
Here is the setup: You are a god, and you are betrayed, so you have to punch everything until you get what you want. Asura is over-the-top as a character, and the world around him is even sillier and grander than anything he can possibly do. Thousands of years fly by in an instant. The planet is ripped in two, because there is an evil being living inside it, and this happens