I've always been a fanboy for Acquire's samurai and ninja games, particularly Way of the Samurai, and I remember liking this back in the day but not beating it... considering this is basically a WotS spin-off, I had to fix it. Now I know, it's the worst game in the WotS series, for sure!
Basically, this game overstays its welcome despite being like 3-4 hours long. Every stage (except literally 3 out of 16 main stages) are basically the same damn fucking thing: just mash Square while sometimes dodging with Circle until you kill enough enemies for the game to arbitrarily say you beat the stage. Not to mention that you will be repeating the same areas multiple times anyway!
Gameplay just gets old after a few stages, despite the game giving you new weapons. You see basically all enemy types after a few stages, with the exception of bosses (which mostly are annoying). Camera sucks, too.
Using Ultimate Master Mode never gets old, tho, since you become invicible, fast as fuck, and can instantly kill mooks goring them. I'm assuming this was an inspiration in a way for some stuff in WotS3 and WotS4.
Story is entertaining. Obviously don't expect too much, but it's entertaining for what it is. It's nice to see Dona Dona (Donald), though I can't tell if this is an alternate reality type thing or if this is set before WotS1? I don't know the timeline but this feels like it's set after WotS1's time, despite Donald's entire existence here implying this is before WotS1. I had no internet when I played the game so I couldn't look up dates, which is when I wrote this review too.
Anyway, gameplay is neat for the first 30 minutes then you already saw everything there is to offer, so the game sucks ass. Story, style, and soundtrack are what carried it enough to make me wanna beat it. Also Claudia's massive low-poly tits, goddamn!
Basically, this game overstays its welcome despite being like 3-4 hours long. Every stage (except literally 3 out of 16 main stages) are basically the same damn fucking thing: just mash Square while sometimes dodging with Circle until you kill enough enemies for the game to arbitrarily say you beat the stage. Not to mention that you will be repeating the same areas multiple times anyway!
Gameplay just gets old after a few stages, despite the game giving you new weapons. You see basically all enemy types after a few stages, with the exception of bosses (which mostly are annoying). Camera sucks, too.
Using Ultimate Master Mode never gets old, tho, since you become invicible, fast as fuck, and can instantly kill mooks goring them. I'm assuming this was an inspiration in a way for some stuff in WotS3 and WotS4.
Story is entertaining. Obviously don't expect too much, but it's entertaining for what it is. It's nice to see Dona Dona (Donald), though I can't tell if this is an alternate reality type thing or if this is set before WotS1? I don't know the timeline but this feels like it's set after WotS1's time, despite Donald's entire existence here implying this is before WotS1. I had no internet when I played the game so I couldn't look up dates, which is when I wrote this review too.
Anyway, gameplay is neat for the first 30 minutes then you already saw everything there is to offer, so the game sucks ass. Story, style, and soundtrack are what carried it enough to make me wanna beat it. Also Claudia's massive low-poly tits, goddamn!