A very pretty looking game with nothing else beyond that really. Combat is insanely simple, parry windows so wide you can take a nap, wake up, brush your teeth, shower, and eat a snack and still have time to parry. Two buttons with different variations that really do nothing for quite a while. Just a very bland game. It's like walking through some pretty cool wallpaper engine japanese vistas and sometimes you have to do some basic combat. Story is fine, I didn't beat the game but i got halfway through it, don't really care about it much. A very style over substance game, if you can handle the first 2 hours being killing bandits that are raiding villages, then knock yourself out i guess. I wouldn't recommend this to anybody though, really.
Muito bonito, mas é só.
I love this game quite a bit it's a cinematic darling
Si entendés a Kurosawa solo como el tipo que hacía peliculas de samurais en blanco y negro te falta bastante estudio.
Del gameplay ni hablar, de las peores sensaciones que tuve con un control.
Del gameplay ni hablar, de las peores sensaciones que tuve con un control.
Me llamo visualmente pero no fui fan del combate.
avoided this because I figured it'd be a kind of lame film school dude's fetishisms of 50s Japanese Samurai cinema.
And I guess it kind of is, in a way. but no more shallow than any other character action video game that apes from cinema is, except this game's concept of camera placement and framing is actually pretty fucking stellar. it's genuinely more cinematic than games like God of War or Ghost of Tsushima think they are. trek to yomi might be one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
at times it's sort of choked by its visual aesthetic, a lot of the game feels very dry. but it's basically if Journey went Kurosawa mode for 5 hours. if you've played any modern side-scrolling action game, you might not be impressed. if you've seen Sanjuro you might not be impressed. but honestly I think those two things go together really well, sort of like buttered toast or chocolate milk. just a very basic but tasty combo (and I mean pretty much every side-scrolling action game I've played thinks it's fucking Vaporware Jesus so this is kind of refreshing to some degree).
And I guess it kind of is, in a way. but no more shallow than any other character action video game that apes from cinema is, except this game's concept of camera placement and framing is actually pretty fucking stellar. it's genuinely more cinematic than games like God of War or Ghost of Tsushima think they are. trek to yomi might be one of the most beautiful games I've ever played.
at times it's sort of choked by its visual aesthetic, a lot of the game feels very dry. but it's basically if Journey went Kurosawa mode for 5 hours. if you've played any modern side-scrolling action game, you might not be impressed. if you've seen Sanjuro you might not be impressed. but honestly I think those two things go together really well, sort of like buttered toast or chocolate milk. just a very basic but tasty combo (and I mean pretty much every side-scrolling action game I've played thinks it's fucking Vaporware Jesus so this is kind of refreshing to some degree).
Fun game with decent combat and fun story but man is the difficulty all over the place. Feels super unbalanced and spikes just for the sake of it, had to switch to easy, which is a first. Fuck the spear enemies and the enemies that jolt back. 7/10
I feel like they watched a load of old samurai films and went "Damn, you know what makes these great, the fact they are in black and white" rather than the dynamics and fights at work.
The game looks really cool, it's just a shame that the combat, characters and pretty much everything else are so forgettable that I ended up feeling the aesthetic was wasted and deserved better.
The game looks really cool, it's just a shame that the combat, characters and pretty much everything else are so forgettable that I ended up feeling the aesthetic was wasted and deserved better.
Very bland but had some pretty good parts I won't lie