The Way of the Crapper
Come tuesday and am pumped...did all my father/husband chores, watched the futbol game for the CONCACHAMPIONS, there was a tribute to Kurt Cobain and nirvana really nice and a really nice pepperoni sandwich to top it off...i said it's time for the SAMURAI!!! Put the game on, and again i liked the cutscenes, gave the samurai his name, face and gear and off i went....and all this expectations simply blew up in my face...or in this case i commited harakiri. What a load of crap!!!! no better way of summing this horrible experience.
Story - There was a civil war on the little town of Adesa (or whatever is called, don't really care at this point) and it's because the General samuria whatever, is trying to make the midget Adessa the big time name and wants to take control of not only this town, but every little inch around. Since all the town folks are peasants and rice farmers, well they're not used to being involed in corruption. Enter the civil war and what not, you were a soldier in this war, and you were hurt. Now you're awake and you have to decide to be part of the corrupt general samurai or (i guess) the resistance or lone wolf....
The story is good, and the initial cutscene, gets you hooked...problem starts afterwards.....
Graphics - At the beginning i said to myself..."they're ok, no problem"...but when gameplay comes in, then i went...FORK THIS! really poor effort ps2 graphics on this turd.
Gameplay - THE most important thing on all games, and on this game FAILS! This game just sucks balls on this...where to start...so this is an Open World game....why the fork do i have to press start, then press something else, then get to map to finally get where am going or what am i supposed to do?? AWFUL! Then you bump into people, and well...your dude is mute but i guess he's talking to them cuz the answer back and what's worse you have to read tiny tiny words...believe me when you are pumped, and starting to get annoyed by all this crappy issues and you can hear from deep inside you that "you're wasting your time" echo, this transforms into a sleeping pill. Having to read small dialogues, which happen to be your guide to what you are supposed to do....is just tedious! who came up with that idea and thinking that this would be fun?? seriously!
Then, since you are lost, having to go back and forth from pausing and searching on the menu for your map, having to read this arameic scriptings of dialogue that spurt everywhere i must add, then you have the fighting system.
You can slice and dice everyone you want, but i read somewhere that is wrong...yet i got EXP points for that. The movements are alright, but man, are they clunky! And then, you got the graphics...like i said ABOVE, the graphics at first are allright, but after getting hit by so much poor display of effort, you start noticing how clunky this INGAME graphics are. They're beginning of a ps2 era graphics, but the bad games of the beginning of the ps2 era. Yes, graphics are not everything, i am a fervent believer of that idea...but i also believe games should be FUN!!! not boring and uninspired!
This game rots! The game cover and initial cutscenes kick it...but then it just blows up in smoke in front of you!! forking stinking game!
Sound - who cares?
Replay - if you are a trophy prostitute then go ahead, PLAY it! 20 endings, several katanas to pick up and $#it, but this game is piss pool dreadful!
In the end, i wasted my time...i almost broke my neck, cuz from being pumped with gamer-roid rage to play this, i ended up with a valium-cannabis pill down my throat. I woke up from a big fat snore gasp, and watching this pityfull effort of scenery village and some woman standing in front of my samurai, talking in gibberish from what i could read. BAD and FORKED!
This game is worth NOTHING, don't rent, don't buy it, don't play it. If you want to go ahead and play it anyways, do so and don't get angry at yourself for having hope...the cutscenes will fool you, the gameplay will fork you without mercy and fork you again and again.
Horrible game...probably the lowest review i have given. This game is abysmal! STAY AWAY!!