A former roommate left this game behind, so I dug it up and started playing it for about an hour and a half last night.
It feels like I’m the lead role in a Japanese kung fu movie. There are two elements that really enhance that feeling:
Incredibly gorgeous artwork, costumes and sets.
Odd Engrish and voice over-dubbing.
The game doesn’t seem too deep, but that suits me lately. Hack and slash, simple controls. The movement controls are bad: Up to sprint forward, left and right on the d-pad to rotate, down to step backwords. No analog movement.
The overall feel is a lot like the old Sierra adventure games, but with a little hack-n-slash to keep things moving. It’s not so much a game as it is an interactive movie.
Wow, thanks for the infodump about this new indie game. I hear that there’s something called “Resident Evil” coming out soon. Can you give us a sneak preview of that?
Great game, horrid controls. Anyone making a game using a D-Pad for movement should be dragged into the street and capped in the head Fallout style. This isn’t 1995, people.
Yeah, I’m one too. My motto: “$19.99 and it’s all mine”. But really, $2.00 is my price-point. I’ll buy anything for $2.00. I just picked up 5 game-gear games at TRU for $2.00 each in their bargain bin. I wasn’t aware that “portable playtime” gaming had come so far.
