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Post by anayo on Sept 7, 2019 7:56:59 GMT -5
Came across this: (Gangs of London for PSP) Looks pretty amazing in my book. Yeah they really went above and beyond with that one. I'd have expected it to just be a grizzled white dude with a gun making "that pose" while glowering at the viewer.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2019 11:05:13 GMT -5
I found some goodies. Bloodrayne's Japanese cover (PS2): This Japanese version is being sold for over two hundred dollars on amazon. I mean, why? The game's also available on the Xbox, GC and PC (including digital stores). I wonder if it's just for the cover. Man, the Japanese cover for Rengoku doesn't joke around either:
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Post by Ex on Sept 19, 2019 11:27:26 GMT -5
Rengoku's is pretty crazy. You'd need a helluva strong neck to pull that off.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2019 14:23:23 GMT -5
The cover for Acquire's Samurai Western is beautiful: Looks like something toei would enjoy.
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Post by toei on Sept 22, 2019 17:37:23 GMT -5
@tsumuri It's definitely something I would enjoy, if my computer would let me. Once I get a better computer, it'll be on my list, along with all those Way of the Samurai games that this is a spin-off of.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 22, 2019 18:27:51 GMT -5
I need to get back to that series someday. I remember not really understanding the mechanics when I played one of them on the PS2... but it was neat. lol
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Post by toei on Sept 22, 2019 18:59:27 GMT -5
I need to get back to that series someday. I remember not really understanding the mechanics when I played one of them on the PS2... but it was neat. lol I once went through a full game of Way of Samurai that lasted about 15 minutes. I refused to back down or apologize at any point. This quickly got me tied up to train tracks, at which point a passerby just decided to let me rot because he thought I was rude and I was run over. The short, tragic life of a hard-headed ronin. This just made me respect the game more, though, and I'm definitely gonna play it properly one day. The one thing I don't like is that it takes a lot of sword hits to beat anybody; I wish it more like Bushido Blade, where swords really feel deadly. Apart from that, the main appeal of the series is that each game is basically the length of a movie, but you have total freedom as to what ends up happening in it. This is also what's always kept its reviews mixed; people don't want an action-adventure game to be over within two hours, even if they can replay it several times through and get a completely different adventure each time. But if you're running through the series on discount off of Steam or whatever, that becomes kind of a plus.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 23, 2019 11:40:04 GMT -5
I remember Samurai Western, not from playing, but from a lot of the mediocre reviews it got. I'm learning that games with weird structures like that tend to get short shrift. I mean, if the game really mixes things up on each route, that's a lot of gameplay, approximating a choose-your-own-adventure book.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 15:30:38 GMT -5
Not sure if it's any good, but apparently this is a spiritual sequel of sorts to Bushido Blade:
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Post by toei on Sept 23, 2019 19:51:51 GMT -5
Sarge Samurai Western isn't an open-ended action-adventure game like Way of the Samurai, it's a straightforward action game. I think the bad reviews just criticized it for being repetitive, since it's a hack-n-slash. @tsumuri Kengo sucks unfortunately. It's the same developer, but without the main creator / director of the Bushido Blade games. They eliminated most of what made those games great and left very little. There's an entire Kengo series, too. Maybe it gets better at some point.
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