TrevHead (TVR) wrote:
I dont even have a Wii atm but im planning on buying this (and Sin & Punishment 2) in the near future, cheifly its to support RSG who are the publisher.
A quick check on Amazon UK shows all the cheap copies have gone atm with the game selling at approx £16.50, so ill wait on buying it some more as theres a fuckton of great games out there and im running on a tight budget. I hate penny pinching for niche games of this calibre, but im a poor man who will pirate a game if I want it badly enough.
Theres another 2 or 3 vanillaware games in development atm for the Ps3 & Vita
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/20/dr ... -old-game/As for Odin Sphere I was playing it last month and got 1/4 way though the 2nd characters story. The game is a bit of a mixed bag for me due me getting sidetracked into cookery and gathering items which it made worse with the limited item slots and that im a hoarder I know that this is mostly a character flaw with me as a gamer but I do wish the game wasnt reliant of eating for EXP. That been said, now im onto the 2nd story book I have a few recipes that enable me to minimise cooking and hoarding cookery items. So when I return to the game ill beable to progress at a faster pace.
How is Muramasa? Does it have anything like cookery in it or someother wierd mechanic that I cant ignore and just get on with the fighting and the story?
i was the same as you with Odin Sphere: seduced by the visuals but deflated by the RPG elements. It's good, but I can't seem to click with the reliance on item collecting etc.
Murasama does its best to strip those elements to a bare minimum. If you're playing on default difficulty things like cooking (which exists) and item collecting barely have any relevance at all. It's easy enough to ignore them almost all the way through.
But I recommend playing Shuro mode (the harder), because even then using items is simple (there's no limit on collecting) and you'll actually be thankful when you can quickly cook a riceball or Tofu to tide you over.
In comparison though it's extremely streamlined. You have swords selectable on the L button and a selection of health and items on the R (I played it with the Classic Controller). You get swords as a matter of levelling up and they cost nothing, and the system is simply a case of swapping the old (less powerful) for the new (more powerful.)
You can explore the whole game and take on hidden challenges, but you can just as easily carve your way through enjoying the flexible combat and jaw dropping scenery.
And fuck, is it jaw dropping. It's a stunning looking game.
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Amazon UK shows all the cheap copies have gone atm with the game selling at approx £16.50
If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have happily paid three times that amount! Well worth £16.50.