I didn't really have high hopes for this
game when I went in to it, but I never imagined for one second that it could be
this bad.
"What’s so bad about it?" I hear you cry, or not as no one cares,
well let me tell you. First of all the most basic and fundamental thing that
you should get right when making a Hack and Slash game.... the hacking and the
slashing, the hit detection in this game is pretty awful, I mean it's ok for
you attacking normal enemies and even them attacking you back, but sometimes
attacks that certain enemies do can hurt you for a LOT of damage, an amount of
damage that just seems disproportionate to the rest of the game. A big
annoyance of mine as well was that if a boss blocked his front with a weapon,
even hitting him on the back had the same effect as the front, so if he was in
a guarded mode, he could be there FOREVER...
There is also a tiiiiny collection of characters with only ONE available from
the start, while the rest have to be unlocked by completing her story, this
wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the fact that they’re basically is no
story, or a very limited grasp on a story, every now and then you'll be stopped
from fighting to watch a very brief bit of dialogue between two characters
(some of which are never explained who they are or what they are doing there)
before being thrown back into battle.
Another major problem with this game is the level lengths, while you'll only
see about 5 or 6 different levels repeated for the 6 different characters with
slightly varying goals, they can last from anything up to 15 minutes to 35
minutes, and all of this must be done without any checkpoints what so ever. No
checkpoints? No big deal right? Well, no it is a big deal when the difficulty
of enemies Yo-Yo's up and down within the level so that one minute you can be
doing fine and the next clinging on for dear life, and the amount of times I
lost to the last boss of a level and had to redo another 30-40 minutes of
hacking and slashing is off the chart, while none of your progress is saved at
all.
At the end of the day, it's nice to see a new comer in this rather one sided
genre, but from this first impression I don't want a sequel, so if you really
have the urge to hack and slash please go and pick up a copy of Dynasty Warriors,
sure it hasn't changed at all in about 5 sequels but at least it's rather old
and bland formula is a solid one rather than this washy mess of crap.
