Excellent Ketsui review.

[DrTrouserPlank]

Can't remember whether I have posted this before but here goes. This is not my review I might add.

Ketsui, what can I say.

Ketsui is a game recommended that has been constantly recommended to me by a few friends. Ketsui this, Ketsui that they'd rant and rave about how long they've waited to play this game. So when the time came and the game was finally finished, I did something I haven't done in a while. I imported it. Now, playing imports on our American Xbox 360s (which by the way, is the place that invented the Xbox) is not always a trivial matter. Apparently it impossible for this particular game, I don't understand why but it's made in Japan so perhaps the frequency is different? In any case after purchasing a used Japanese Xbox 360, I finally got to sit down with the much hyped Ketsui game.

Does it live up to the hype? Read on gentle reader.

If you're unfamiliar with games like Ketsui, it is what is called a "space invader" style game. Space invaders was a DOS game that was very popular in the early 90s, if you are old enough to remember. The objective is to survive long enough while an onslaught of aliens slowly crept up in front of you all the while you try to kill them with your weapons. Obviously, Ketsui has better graphics, but unfortunately not without problems.

I own a very nice 50" plasma HDTV and I'm used to being treated to delights like Heavy Rain, so when I first started up Ketsui I was expecting comparable graphics. For a game that was made in 2010, it unfortunately disappoints. Cave (the creators of this game) try to fool you into thinking it is a HD game by filling the screen with hand drawn art. Unfortunately, the actual play area is confined to an oddly shaped region in the center of the screen. I really don't get it, you've got all this room and you can't figure out a way to use it? Anyway, to top this off I spotted many jaggies so the 3D rendering engine must have some bugs or they're not using anti-aliasing.

The story in this game is practically non-existent, from the very start you are greeted with some robotic sounding music. I suppose this goes along with the retro theme (since these kinds of games are really a sub-genre of retro-games). I found myself wondering why the levels progressed at all like they did? You go from fighting helicopters in a central business district to fighting tank-trailers in a forested area. The narrative simply wasn't there, which is a big negative for a game made in 2010.

All this said though, I've got to emphasis that the gameplay part of the game (which in my opinion is always the most important part) is pretty fun! Your ship does nice rattling sounds and it moves with quite some grace. The enemies are varied (some pop out of buildings!). There is even a mathematical mini-game but I didn't understand it at all. As you kill baddies, numbers start popping out of them and they get added up or something. The manual was in Japanese so I guess I'll never find out ... and for that matter, the math game is probably so complex that only a Japanese person can actually play it. Over in Japan, math is seen as a fun activity but to be honest I find it rather dull, especially when I'm sitting down to relax with some casual gaming.

The game itself is pretty easy and disappointedly short. They've kind of made a hybrid RPG-space invader game where you will begin with a few ships and slowly build up to an armada of them. You will have to grind through the first few levels to obtain them though. Eventually you will have so many ships that finishing the game would take very little skill, I was a little disappointed at the brevity. I guess this is where the math game comes in and it probably makes perfect sense in Japan.

To me though, I've shelved both the Japanese Xbox 360 and Ketsui ... I think I've finally outgrown space invaders.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/945315-k ... a/55798464

[O. Van Bruce]

[psoslayer]

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33343

[Skykid]

Excellent Ketsui review.

"Ketsui is a game recommended that has been constantly recommended to me by a few friends."

[Elixir]

This is not my review I might add.

Might as well have been.

[Bananamatic]

At least his friends are cool

[Observer]

"Ketsui"
"Casual Gaming"
http://youtu.be/Xu2exZut-Y0

[Kollision]

There should be a new definition for retard that goes beyond retard.

[Bee Cool]

This is an old troll post, nothing to see here.

[Vamos]

Cool you wrote a troll review under a different alias .

[DrTrouserPlank]

sigh....

[psoslayer]

If you really found the review that great you might explain why.

[Deca]

I own a very nice 50" plasma HDTV and I'm used to being treated to delights like Heavy Rain

[Gus]

DTP=godhandpro confirmed

[mesh control]

nah man, that's Casper <3

[Gus]

I need to start reading the OP.

[Bananamatic]

TVs are shit for gaming anyways, I gave my hdtv to my sister and just bought a vga cable and used my olde as hell monitor

fapping like the fist of the north star

[DrTrouserPlank]

I need to start reading the OP.

What does that mean... That you are calling me a troll (again) or that you are apologising for assuming that Godhandpro is a pseudonym of mine?

The stupidity of the review has been lost on most people. It's funny in a tragic sense, but most people here just want to use it as an excuse to attack me in some way or another.

[TheSoundofRed]

What does that mean... That you are calling me a troll (again) or that you are apologising for assuming that Godhandpro is a pseudonym of mine?

The stupidity of the review has been lost on most people. It's funny in a tragic sense, but most people here just want to use it as an excuse to attack me in some way or another.

You missed the part where this subject has already been discussed in it's own dedicated thread.

[DrTrouserPlank]

What does that mean... That you are calling me a troll (again) or that you are apologising for assuming that Godhandpro is a pseudonym of mine?

The stupidity of the review has been lost on most people. It's funny in a tragic sense, but most people here just want to use it as an excuse to attack me in some way or another.

You missed the part where this subject has already been discussed in it's own dedicated thread.

Yup that's fine.

Please close this thread Mr Moderator. I was trying to bring a bit of light-hearted relief to the forums, but it seems that there is indeed a dedicated thread for moronic reviews so this is surplus.