This is an odd ball game to say the least. While the title suffers like most gen 7 games, this has the added effect of 1st year ps3 being about “YOOO look at this these new features! There’s motions now”. This title has been made with flaws and boy did I enjoy this game despite it.
The motion feature I found entertaining in aspects, one great reason is picking up a corpse with one arm and slow mo smack another person with it. Besides this aspects, I found it good in some ways, while others being awful, more specifically being awful when it comes to puzzles. It works well in combat scenarios.
The story in this title is decent, it’s a basic set up that you have seen a dozen times already. The characters is what makes the game memorable in my book. The main antagonist is great, so great that I genuinely couldn’t wait to see this hypocritical pervert have their inevitable downfall. The side antagonist are power ranger villains with wacky mannerisms, some could find it annoying, I find them entertaining by showing you’re up against clowns that are better than your side simply by having more access to tech and strength in numbers. My word of advice is to go into the game and pretend logic doesn’t exist.
My only disappointment being how they handled the villain Flying Fox, he was hyped up the entire game and given as equally amount of screen time as the main antagonist. Feels like they wanted to do more, but were running out of time or budget. I enjoy the game’s plot and ending anyhow, not great by any means, but not bad either.
(Minor spoilers for gameplay)
There’s two characters you play throughout the game, one named Nariko and the other named Kai. Nariko is the main one you’ll be playing through the game as and she revolves around her sword(s) changing shape. The swordplay here is satisfying and kept the game fresh throughout as the many switching of your blade with various basic combos to pull. Basic as in things like square, square, triangle, etc. Near the end however, I found that it’s best to play the game like it’s assassin’s creed to wait till someone attacks you, counter it for a isntakill, and repeat. You get plenty of points this way too, helpful if wanting to 100%.
As for Kai, her entire gameplay revolves around a bow gun and you get what you would expect from an early ps3 title, motion controls! While yes, you don’t “need” to use the motion controls, but you will make certain segments really really really difficult for yourself. Hell, there’s a point where you’re forced to kill these enemies with headshots only. So yeah, motions controls this whole time when playing Kai, is it good despite this mechanic set back? Yes and no. Yes because it gives the perspective like the Sniper Ellite games where you see the arrow hit the target, but this time you control the arrow right when you shoot it in a direction with the motion controls. This can be a bane of existence for some, but to me, landing a shot feels oh so satisfying each time. I only found the motions control’s annoying like puzzles like I stated earlier. Worth mentioning, Kai’s sections are often short and only get to use her a handful of times. Her stay doesn’t feel overdue.
The world and art direction is outstanding, some areas being so beautiful, I would have them as a background for my pc! Well done for this aspect.
The music in title is unique by going a more Middle-East cultural approach. While there wasn’t a specific track that I felt impacted a scene for better or for worse, it would catch me off guard as to not being used to this style of music in a video game.
Overall, I would say this is the best early gen 7 out there and recommend to try out if want to see what ps3-exclusives have to offer. The motion controls aren’t sufferable either. If you wanna bang out a game in a day or two, this could be an option for ya.
The motion feature I found entertaining in aspects, one great reason is picking up a corpse with one arm and slow mo smack another person with it. Besides this aspects, I found it good in some ways, while others being awful, more specifically being awful when it comes to puzzles. It works well in combat scenarios.
The story in this title is decent, it’s a basic set up that you have seen a dozen times already. The characters is what makes the game memorable in my book. The main antagonist is great, so great that I genuinely couldn’t wait to see this hypocritical pervert have their inevitable downfall. The side antagonist are power ranger villains with wacky mannerisms, some could find it annoying, I find them entertaining by showing you’re up against clowns that are better than your side simply by having more access to tech and strength in numbers. My word of advice is to go into the game and pretend logic doesn’t exist.
My only disappointment being how they handled the villain Flying Fox, he was hyped up the entire game and given as equally amount of screen time as the main antagonist. Feels like they wanted to do more, but were running out of time or budget. I enjoy the game’s plot and ending anyhow, not great by any means, but not bad either.
(Minor spoilers for gameplay)
There’s two characters you play throughout the game, one named Nariko and the other named Kai. Nariko is the main one you’ll be playing through the game as and she revolves around her sword(s) changing shape. The swordplay here is satisfying and kept the game fresh throughout as the many switching of your blade with various basic combos to pull. Basic as in things like square, square, triangle, etc. Near the end however, I found that it’s best to play the game like it’s assassin’s creed to wait till someone attacks you, counter it for a isntakill, and repeat. You get plenty of points this way too, helpful if wanting to 100%.
As for Kai, her entire gameplay revolves around a bow gun and you get what you would expect from an early ps3 title, motion controls! While yes, you don’t “need” to use the motion controls, but you will make certain segments really really really difficult for yourself. Hell, there’s a point where you’re forced to kill these enemies with headshots only. So yeah, motions controls this whole time when playing Kai, is it good despite this mechanic set back? Yes and no. Yes because it gives the perspective like the Sniper Ellite games where you see the arrow hit the target, but this time you control the arrow right when you shoot it in a direction with the motion controls. This can be a bane of existence for some, but to me, landing a shot feels oh so satisfying each time. I only found the motions control’s annoying like puzzles like I stated earlier. Worth mentioning, Kai’s sections are often short and only get to use her a handful of times. Her stay doesn’t feel overdue.
The world and art direction is outstanding, some areas being so beautiful, I would have them as a background for my pc! Well done for this aspect.
The music in title is unique by going a more Middle-East cultural approach. While there wasn’t a specific track that I felt impacted a scene for better or for worse, it would catch me off guard as to not being used to this style of music in a video game.
Overall, I would say this is the best early gen 7 out there and recommend to try out if want to see what ps3-exclusives have to offer. The motion controls aren’t sufferable either. If you wanna bang out a game in a day or two, this could be an option for ya.