Famitsu gives Ninja Gaid-- er, I mean, Ninja Blade a pretty good score

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3172401

Ninja Blade (8/8/8/8, 32 points)

Microsoft and From Software's latest offers "nothing particularly new with the gameplay or setting, but it's a well-done, finely-detailed action game," as one reviewer wrote. "There's a wide variety of battle situations, all very speedy, and the giant bosses are very impressive. Running on walls and using wires to go between buildings is a lot of fun." The movie action sequences were a mixed bag: "They require nimble button presses, but since it doesn't depict what happens when you fail them, you don't really get much of a sense of accomplishment after success." There were other little niggles, like stages that get reused later in the game and the lack of a single "use item" button, but "this is one new title I hope to see expanded upon in the future."

The rest of the reviews:

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Echoes of Time (Wii: 8/7/7/7, 29 points; DS: 8/7/7/8, 30 points)

Says, "Simple, straight up follow-up, but still a lot of fun." Also, "Difficulty imbalance in single-player" and the worst criticism, "Both the Wii and DS suffers from a lot of lag," which they say, "is a lot of shame." Also, "Not much difference in graphics between Wii and DS." --What's up Square-Enix!!! :evil:

Tales of the World Radiant Mythology 2 (8/8/8/8, 32 points)

"Same old Tales with some improvements. Same addictive customizing features and dungeouns crawler." But adds, "Game is mostly fetch-quests."

Well, at least Ninja Blade isn't the complete disaster that I thought it'd be. Then again, this is Famitsu. Who knows what the American review sites will say.

But he's soooo cool looking......NOT!:P

Unlike this dude here, who is cool!

Still Ill end up renting it sometime, it seems me and bad games are inexorably drawn to each other like the moth and the flame.GodModeEnabled

I actually don't think this game will be bad at all, there's a good developer behind it. However, it's a generic rip-off to the max. I can't stand even looking at it especially considering that the people behind it brought us the very unique, styIish and awesome Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors.

I thought the demo was enjoyable enough, and since it's coming from the Otogi team at From Software, I expected a solid action game. Good to see it delivered on that.