Yojimbloated
HIGH Chaining counterattacks between multiple enemies.
LOW The near-endless grind.
WTF How are skeletons bleeding this much?!
Katana Kami: A Way Of The Samurai Story Review
Tag: Acquire
Akiba’s Trip: Undead & Undressed Review
Less interesting than it sounds
HIGH Fantastically weird premise.
LOW Painfully insipid writing.
WTF How did something with so much promise end up so dull?
Mind Zero Review
Is ‘Personalike' a genre yet?
HIGH The combat system is fresh and fantastic.
LOW High encounter rates turn it into a grind too quickly.
WTF Why is there no quick and easy way out of a dungeon?
Clan of Champions Second Opinion
A Shadow of Its Former Glory
HIGH I never expected another game of this type from these developers.
LOW It's awful! How could it possibly be so awful?!?
WTF how anyone could consider this fit for sale.
Clan of Champions Review
Gladiator Ends
HIGH Knocking the sword out of a skeleton's hand, then crushing its skull with a mace a moment later.
LOW Oh good. Let's fight three guys in the crumbling courtyard for the sixth time. That never gets old.
WTF Why does this boss obey none of the game's rules? Why am I fighting him twice?
Orgarhythm Review
Don't Lose the Beat
HIGH When everything comes together, it's transcendent.
LOW Struggling to find the beat in Stage 10's godawful boss track.
WTF An experimental game like this should cost less…
Sumioni: Demon Arts Review
Ink-credibly Bad
HIGH The sumi-e art style is pretty nifty.
LOW Nothing else is.
WTF Ancient Japan is lousy with giant, demonic, self-aware wagon wheels?
The best game I haven’t played yet: Way of the Samurai 3
Way of the Samurai 3 came about back in November, but sadly it remains the best game I haven't played yet. Why? Because it was only released in Japan, and although PS3s are admirably region-free, the Japanese language's stubborn refusal to transform magically into English has transformed the prospect of importing a copy of it from a delightful dream into an utter waste of money.
So, until some publisher spends the absolutely minimal amount of money required to turn the menus and text into English, I'll have to be satisfied with a brief preview of a game that may never see a North American release.
(sigh)
Samurai Western – Consumer Guide
According to the ESRB, this game contains: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity
Samurai Western – Review
By all rights, Samurai Western by Spike should have been the sort of low-budget-yet-surprisingly-good game that I love to discover, made even better with big hats and sharp swords. But in this case, I'd have to say that this attempt to appreciate an alternative title was a flat-out waste of $40.
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