| Boutros said: Look at the IGN review. Very nice. http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=85107 |
Actually there's nothing really nice about the review at all. Typical '8.9 downscore because its a Wii game' review. Also Bozon is a well known flip flopping hypocrate who will praise one thing for one game and then bash it in another out of conveniece. In this case, he gave this game a '10' for graphics, yet time and time again he has given past Wii games much lower scores for graphics, 2D and 3D, simply because they were on the Wii. And in many past games with an Anime style he has downscored games for it, yet he gave this one a 10 for it. There's no logic behind his scoring aside from he 'liked' the game and decided to give it a good score.
Anyway, rant of IGN aside, having had the chance to play the game for an extended amount of time myself, I have to say the game has met all my expectations and FAR exceeded them. This game is not just a spiritual successor to Odin Sphere or a simple Action/RPG, but an amazing meld of action, art and solid gameplay that few games have matched. And so far that I can tell, it is HUGE. After starting the game and playing about 2 hours, I headed from the starting area to a second area (called Shigami) and saw that there's about 12-14 main locations in the game, all with their own Metroid like maps to explore and Bosses to defeat. Coupled with this is a huge grid system of 100 different blades to unlock and use (no, they didn't exaggerate, there really IS 100 different blades to find and use). And the game has 2 different difficulty settings. I am currently playing it on the harder setting and so far the game isn't quite as hard as Odin Sphere on Normal, but that could just be because you don't have to rely on tons of item buffs. Though you do get a cool cooking system and items to use in battle.
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