The Soulcalibur games aren't known for their adherence to logic. These are games that have featured Link, Spawn, Yoda, and Darth Vader duking it out against dudes dressed in bondage gear and girls burdened with breasts so huge they'd make Tomonobu Itagaki blush.

In Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, the recently released PSP entry in the franchise, the "Sure, why the hell not?" character is Kratos from God of War. But even the disconnect of pitting Kratos against Soulcalibur mainstays like Voldo and Ivy couldn't prepare me for the game's Gauntlet mode, a batshit insane fusion of an RPG and a minigame collection.

How insane? Check out the introduction to Kratos's quest in Gauntlet mode: