For a licensed game based on a TV series it's pretty good. The combat is surprisingly fun and kinda intuitive if you watched the show (like needing to stake vampires or being able to use shovels to fight them and even stake them with it).
I generally preferred the more linear levels as the puzzles in between fighting can get a bit "point and click" like, like needing to find the right item and then use that to blow something up or recording a voice to get by a security door or something. In the less linear levels I found that to be a tad tiresome. Sadly, the bosses in the later levels are also not the best, as most of them just spam adds at you and you constantly need to de-activate or destroy something to get to damage the bosses at all.
The real appeal is definitely just the amount of love put into this. Not only can you play as many different characters from the cast (though my best gal Faith only got a single level, which is definitely not enough), most actors also returned to voice their characters in-game, paired with the quippy one-liners from the show this was definitely a highlight in presentation. The title screen also starts with the classic Buffy intro music and the menus in general definitely have that Buffy flair.
There is also a plethora of bonus content like interviews with a lot of cast members or even the whole fucking ass comic that this game's story is based on. Imagine getting something like that in modern game!
All in all you will enjoy this game if you're a) a Buffy fan or b) really into retro PS2 games. Luckily I'm both so this was really nice, while not the absolute pinnacle the system has to offer.
I generally preferred the more linear levels as the puzzles in between fighting can get a bit "point and click" like, like needing to find the right item and then use that to blow something up or recording a voice to get by a security door or something. In the less linear levels I found that to be a tad tiresome. Sadly, the bosses in the later levels are also not the best, as most of them just spam adds at you and you constantly need to de-activate or destroy something to get to damage the bosses at all.
The real appeal is definitely just the amount of love put into this. Not only can you play as many different characters from the cast (though my best gal Faith only got a single level, which is definitely not enough), most actors also returned to voice their characters in-game, paired with the quippy one-liners from the show this was definitely a highlight in presentation. The title screen also starts with the classic Buffy intro music and the menus in general definitely have that Buffy flair.
There is also a plethora of bonus content like interviews with a lot of cast members or even the whole fucking ass comic that this game's story is based on. Imagine getting something like that in modern game!
All in all you will enjoy this game if you're a) a Buffy fan or b) really into retro PS2 games. Luckily I'm both so this was really nice, while not the absolute pinnacle the system has to offer.