This Is Why You Should Have A PSVita

[MikeRox]

Michael-5 said:

MikeRox said:
Soul Sacrifice is nothing like Monster Hunter and definitely not easy.

I can see why it wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea, at first I was very WTF? to it, however after a couple of hours it clicked and is now one of my favourite games so far this year.

Soul Sacrifice's biggest problem on the review front is actually probably the very fact they went into their reviews with expectations that it was going to be a Monster Hunter game. I'm really glad it isn't.

When I was talking about being easy, I meant in comparision to Demon's Souls.

So is this game like Demon's Souls then? What else is it similar to? Stretch if you have to.

Erm... I actually find it most like Phantasy Star Online, from the games I've played. It's a 4-player co-op action RPG. It's very fast paced and incredibly hectic at times. I've not had chance to try it online yet, but I really love the journal set up for each level.

It's biggest issue for a lot of people I guess, is that there is no massive world to explore, it's all in bite size  stages (though some of these battles can be pretty epic and run for quite a while) the journal sets the story for the main chapters and provides the story, there is very little in the way of exploration so if you're looking for that I'd steer clear. It's also a very grindy game, I was getting hammered by some of the early missions barely past the tutorial section, but running back though the earlier stages, farming more items/combining powering those spells up and increasing my level made them far easier to take on.

I think the reason I link it to Phantasy Star Online, is because the first one on Dreamcast had like 4 stages, that you just played over and over, and it was purely about leveling up, finding better rarer items with the difficulty just increasing as you improve at the game being the part adding the challenge.

It's definitely a marmite game (you'll either love it or hate it) but I do read a lot of comments about the game that just completely misunderstand what Soul Sacrifice is, and a lot of that is because they've not played the game, and if they have, it wasn't for more than 10 minutes, as it's not just 1 boss on each stage as I've read a lot of comments say, I've started getting to some much bigger environments now.

Anyway, thats my take on Soul Sacrifice, oh, and that the music is absolutely AWESOME! :D too good to be wasted on those puny built in speakers, headphones all the way!