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Master of 7s
I played this thing over the weekend, from start to finish via that touring Playstation Bus or whatever the hell it's called, in about five hours.
There is some replay value, but Ninja Gaiden is still far and away superior to this game. A good game, but not $60 good.
Framerate is about 20-25 fps and the gameplay suffers because of this. Attacks feel jerky and stiff due to the lack of animation and it is often hard to tell what's going because there is so much going on at once (a fact that becomes glaringly unforgivable during the first few minutes of final phase of the last battle). This framerate issue also destroys any sense of weight making everything feel like it's made of paper.
Voice acting and cut scenes are top notch, but not the revolution in gaming everyone in the game mags is making it out to be. Just above average.
Enemies are fairly aggressive and intelligent. They will block your attacks, roll out of the way of power moves and wait for a opening before they attack. The sooner you learn how to counter in this game the better off you will fare as it is required to do any real damage to some of the tougher enemies and bosses.
Boss fights are nothing special. Standard "learn the pattern" fare. The only fights that require any special tactics are against General Whiptail whom you must use aerial combos against to do any real damage and Bohan whom you must adapt to on the fly. The only thing that bugs me about these fights is the requirement of the QTE events to finish them. Miss a button press and the boss regains a quarter of their health and you have to whittle them down again, even if you only have a sliver of life left. I was denied a rightful kill several times because of this bullshit.
Overall, this is a good game. A solid 7 if I have to give a rating. I wouldn't recommend dropping 60 bones to play it though as the replay value is questionable.
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