It's so easy to squint and imagine how earlier Platinum would've knocked this out of the park, how it was probably pitched as a full-fat spiritual sequel to Okami, but they didn't, their worst instincts activated and they put annoying gacha grinding and gear leveling and stripped it down until there was nothing left, superb character/enemy design and music wasted on a nothing game, like a case study on how exactly my favorite studio has fell off
Not a terrible game though, there's things to like here despite its best efforts to make you dislike it, you guys would've been all over this if it came out on the Vita, or the Wii, oh wait it did it was called Muramasa: The Demon Blade and it was boring and without actual meaningful level design that time too
The most exciting moment in World of Demons is when you get to fight Ninetails and she has her own boss theme and your heart swells because you are remembering that sick as fuck boss fight in Okami, and then you are brought crashing back down to reality
Thank god I was able to return my Apple TV to Walmart just in the nick of time, playing this before it shut down didn't cost me a cent
Not a terrible game though, there's things to like here despite its best efforts to make you dislike it, you guys would've been all over this if it came out on the Vita, or the Wii, oh wait it did it was called Muramasa: The Demon Blade and it was boring and without actual meaningful level design that time too
The most exciting moment in World of Demons is when you get to fight Ninetails and she has her own boss theme and your heart swells because you are remembering that sick as fuck boss fight in Okami, and then you are brought crashing back down to reality
Thank god I was able to return my Apple TV to Walmart just in the nick of time, playing this before it shut down didn't cost me a cent
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yeah I'm probably being too much of a hater and also not giving World of Demons enough credit
I didn't finish Muramasa Rebirth admittedly so idk if it all comes together narratively in a way that's weighty and satisfying, I was reminded of it in that it uses a very similar pantheon of yokai to Muramasa and they both have a lot of relatively simple combat and a lot of walking and a similar color palette and setting, if I rated Muramasa I'd give it a 3.5 which is better than World of Demons and definitely still a passing grade, I love 13 Sentinels though, all-timer for me
I did enjoy World of Demons, but only just, and rushing to finish it before the shutdown took some enjoyment out of it for me
I wonder if I should give Muramasa another chance, considering how good the story in 13 Sentinels is there's gotta be something there
Also I wish Platinum would return to their glory days, it's been a rough several years lol
I didn't finish Muramasa Rebirth admittedly so idk if it all comes together narratively in a way that's weighty and satisfying, I was reminded of it in that it uses a very similar pantheon of yokai to Muramasa and they both have a lot of relatively simple combat and a lot of walking and a similar color palette and setting, if I rated Muramasa I'd give it a 3.5 which is better than World of Demons and definitely still a passing grade, I love 13 Sentinels though, all-timer for me
I did enjoy World of Demons, but only just, and rushing to finish it before the shutdown took some enjoyment out of it for me
I wonder if I should give Muramasa another chance, considering how good the story in 13 Sentinels is there's gotta be something there
Also I wish Platinum would return to their glory days, it's been a rough several years lol
what made me write this review was seeing the tofu boy *checks notes* Tofu-kozo also in Muramasa and I was like "damn"
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15 days ago