Who knew that samurai swordfighting could ever be so exciting and not-annoying?
The story of the game takes place in the 17th century of Japanese history. That's about it. Simple. Fun. Easy to understand. Have you been to school lately? People want you to know what food FDR was eating the morning of January 29th, 1942. They're getting too specific if you ask me. This game works well. The story and acting would make any critically acclaimed director crap his pants, and I mean it. He would crap his pants. He would sit down in a seat, grab a soda and some popcorn, see this game because I would be broadcasting it in a theater 24 hours a day, and they would sit there, crapping their pants as they heard the dialogue (voiced by acclaimed actor Tom Hanks) and would have an excess of 55 pounds to carry as they exited the theater. It's that good.
10/10
Graphics:
I've never seen a game capture the quality and movement of Japanese samurai sword people before in my life. From boxey movements to terrible hit detection, I must say, it's JUST like fighting in a samurai sword match. Half the time, I have no idea what I'm swinging my sword at. I really don't. I've come close to lopping off my opponent's head, just because I jumped ten feet in the air and screamed in slow motion for no apparent reason. The backgrounds look exactly like my backyard. No lies.
10/10
Gameplay:
This game influenced me to go outside and get a samurai sword and start swinging at random objects around me. Pretty soon, I was spouting incoherent speech at random objects, such as a telephone, including the mismatched English dubbing technique, a prized feature of most Japanese Samurai sword movies, captured well in this faithful game. I'm overly impressed with the fact that you can do around five moves total. Really, come on here people. Do you really need thousands of moves to take out one guy? Shouldn't you be good enough to take him out with one simple sweep? Duck and swing, that's my motto. Great gameplay. It taught me the talents of Samurai sword fighting.
10/10
Well, to sum this game up, it's a piece of crap.