RYU GA GOTOKU GAIDEN: THE MAN WHO ERASED HIS NAME
The RGG spin offs have always been lower quality affairs, see Hokuto no Gotoku and Kenzan holds a special place in my heart but Gaiden is the worst of all RGG spin offs. Kiryu becomes a secret agent for a secret organisation and he gets spiderweb powers.
The game feels like a poorly done mod especially with the gameplay. Kiryu's spiderwebs are stupid overpowered even on hard. It feels like a randomly slapped together game in terms of gameplay mad by fan modders. It was sold at a slightly lower price but it should have been a 3000 yen game at most.
The whole point of the game was to do this sob scene at the end but the game is just rubbish. While playing, I kept thinking about how they could not even do any memorable side stories in Gaiden and I will never complain about Hokuto no Gotoku again. Avoid.
RYU GA GOTOKU / LIKE A DRAGON 8
+ RGG finally moves overseas and I quite enjoy walking around Hawaii. Almost makes me want to go there to see how much the game captures the real life.
+ Ichiban doesn't have a useless fighting style/job anymore.
+ Yamai is the new Majima
+ The effort and level of completion of the game is good. RGG studio doesn't have a AAA budget but you can feel they tried really hard.
+ I was not happy Kiryu was going to steal the spotlight from Ichiban but they've actually got a good reason for Kiryu to be in the game..... but
- RGG studios screwed up Kiryu's ending. I am not happy. Have the balls to pull the trigger FFS.
- The last two characters to join the team were pure fanservice and complete waste of space.
- The last boss has horrible English. Hire someone who can speak both languages.
- The dungeons to level up and gain materials for your weapons are so randomly generated. Its like the training tower in 7. Unnecessary padding with randomly generated assets.
+ I love the beautiful and amazing 2D animation.
+ Did I mention how beautiful everything in the game looks? Especially the elves. :)
+ Unicorn Overlord is a mix of old school turn based combat mixed with RTS.
+ Beautiful 2D overword to explore. I love how because it is 2D, they can hide many secrets on the world map.
= Not a fan of romance everyone because there is no depth but at least there are conversations are about the wars going on instead of boring slice of life stuff like in Fire Emblem.
= Having to recruit soldiers all the time to place in towns is a minor annoyance.
= I would prefer at least 2 story routes with characters specific to each route/choice ala Triangle Strategy. There is no point killing any soldiers.
- The game is too easy once you figured out a good team combination and commands. Reminds me of playing Final Fantasy 12 with one hand because everything is automatic. You don't even need to pay attention any more. Make sure to play on the hardest difficulty!
RISE OF THE RONIN
+ So much better than Ghost of Tsushima. I could actually die in this game playing on hard lol and there are actually challenging boss battles.
+ Worth playing just for being a Kyoto simulator. The only way to enjoy Kyoto without all the pesky tourists!
+ Fun to meet all the historical characters and I watched Ryomaden to prepare for this game
= Don't like the romance everyone option but obviously they made it for the ladies.
= Gameplay not as good as polished FromSoft games but I don't mind. There was one 3 on 1 boss battle that I was wondering why it was so hard when I discovered the key was just to keep swapping fighters.
- You have to choose whether to be pro or anti Shogunate but unfortunately it does not matter to the ending and the story anyway because you end up doing both missions. This feels like Mass No Effect all over again. Give players all that choice but have no consequences.
- For some reason Team Ninja loves having random loot generators in their game. Its one of the reasons why I could not finish Nioh. It is not as bad as Nioh but it is still annoying having to clear my inventory all the time. WTF do I have to spend so much time going through random loot?
Thanks for your valuable opinions also about games, as a fan of similar games they are more valuable than big site reviews. Got bored halfway by Unicorn too, could not finish it.
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