An intense and stylish button-mashing experience for about 2 or 3 hours - that's about it
Players must guide, Grave, an ex-mob hitman take down his former comrades on his path to vengeance and redemption. Along the way, he meets and befriends Mika, who becomes the only other living person he finds worth protecting.
Players will go through short stages equipped with unlimited ammo from "Cerberus" (twin handguns) and a multi-purpose coffin capable of all forms of destruction via "Demolition Shots", an extreme attack that deals wallops of damage and pretty much blows up the entire stage.
Each level is set like most traditional third-person action games with hordes of enemies rushing Grave and a few eccentric bosses awaiting at level's end. While some skill is required to get through them, intense button-mashing should suffice half the time.
Players are graded at the completion of each level based on their accuracy, style and overall efficiency. The better players perform, the better their rewards such as new better Demolition Shots.
Grave's back-story is gradually revealed through brief cinematic flashbacks. The sweet stylish graphics and character designs by Yasuhiro Nightow (Trigun) and Kousuke Fujishima (Oh! My Goddess) are pretty much the only elements that tip this game's score to slightly above average.
If you're looking for a quick intense button-mashing experience then Gungrave is the game for you.