Shing! is a game that I think has solid ideas in theory but in execution and design it's a frustrating mess. The idea of sword swings mapped to the right stick is an interesting and different idea for a scrolling beat um up until you actually start playing it. A game like Metal Gear Rising where you also swipe a sword in multiple directions based on the direction works better because you are locked in place. This game however while a belt scroller beat um up is on a 3D plane. A lot of the time trying to pull off 360 motion spin attacks my character would turn around and swing in the opposite way. Or if I even slightly tiled up I jump up to start an air combo unintentionaly. Enemies have large pools of health on normal and I found the best strategy was to simply just mash right on the stick to just keep repeaditly slashing in one direction. Being any fancier doesn't actually help much at all, in fact I found it put myself in more danger than anything. Game overall felt very clunky.
Also the game was frustrating in it's enemy design. Lots of the same enemy just recolored and packaged in annoying ways. Really small ones where only low attacks would hit, enemies that have armor on their head or ones that would just throw grenages from afar. But the worst one was the one what has a full on shield which can only be destroyed by deflecting his projectile back at him. Again like on paper that sounds fine but even getting remotley close to this guys bubble knocks you down and all he does is spam fireballs. So I have to stop attacking and just concentrate on this one annoying enemy. Slows gameplay down a ton. Then his sheild goes back up and i'm instantly knocked down. Levels are really short and often times more talking and short puzzles as it is fighting and it's not good.
The tone is really off. The game looks on the cheap cartoony side but then has blood and gratuetist cleavage on the women with a story that would rather move along than create any depth or character. No winners here.
I think I'm gonna have to recommend a pass on this one. To many better options.
Also the game was frustrating in it's enemy design. Lots of the same enemy just recolored and packaged in annoying ways. Really small ones where only low attacks would hit, enemies that have armor on their head or ones that would just throw grenages from afar. But the worst one was the one what has a full on shield which can only be destroyed by deflecting his projectile back at him. Again like on paper that sounds fine but even getting remotley close to this guys bubble knocks you down and all he does is spam fireballs. So I have to stop attacking and just concentrate on this one annoying enemy. Slows gameplay down a ton. Then his sheild goes back up and i'm instantly knocked down. Levels are really short and often times more talking and short puzzles as it is fighting and it's not good.
The tone is really off. The game looks on the cheap cartoony side but then has blood and gratuetist cleavage on the women with a story that would rather move along than create any depth or character. No winners here.
I think I'm gonna have to recommend a pass on this one. To many better options.