Trek to Yomi

All in all, Trek to Yomi is a pretty solid game if a little short. I won’t fault a game for being single-digit hours long, as long as it delivers a good story; Trek to Yomi certainly did. As mentioned prior, the additional story path options potentially take the game up to a good probably 10 hours, assuming all are approximately the same. The challenge offered by completing the game on higher difficulties can also invite a challenge to squeeze a few more hours out, and the combat is fun enough to welcome a playthrough just for difficulties sake.

Trek to Yomi is a solid and well-executed trip to a black-and-white tale of swords and souls, where a simple but satisfying gameplay is paired with a charming narrative that offers three different endings. Enemy and setting variety could be better, but overall this is a game worthy of your time.

Trek To Yomi will set you back the price of a cinema ticket, but guarantees more spectacle than you’ll find in most big-screen ventures. A killer combination of stylish swordfights and thought-provoking storytelling, Trek To Yomi should be high on your list of games to play this year.

Trek to Yomi is a game with great promise that, unfortunately, fails to live up to expectations. Despite this, it also succeeds in areas where most games fail. Few games can lay claim to this level of stylistic fidelity. However, its shortcomings are too vast and all-encompassing to ignore. It feels like a game that tries desperately to be more than it is, to have more nuance, more to say. Unfortunately, it's not just the color scheme that's black and white.

Trek to Yomi is a fun enough five hours for the money. I wasn’t expecting Ghost of Tsushima for $19.99, so I wasn’t disappointed with what I got. However, I’m a big weeb, love Kurosawa, and think katanas are cool. I’m not sure if those unfamiliar with the design principle behind the game will understand where it’s coming from. It might serve as a gateway drug to Japanese cinema for some, but I think many people will just be wondering why it’s in black and white instead of color. Overall, it’s like a samurai with a dull sword: flashy, but lacking the razor edge needed to cut its way through the shadow of its contemporaries.

Trek to Yomi is a missed opportunity. This game was made by real fans of Japanese cinema, who are very aware of the genre. The rudimentary gameplay however, thoroughly falls short.

While it is extraordinary beautiful, Trek to Yomis gameplay is lacking in multiple areas.

GOOD + Great visual graphics + Great show of war + Good voice acting + Good Story + Effective swordsmanship techniques BAD - Inappropriate fight animation - Stereotyped characterisation - Bad boss design - Not worth repeating

Solid game. Great visuals, atmosphere and story. But everything about combat is bad.

Całkiem ciekawe, jeśli ktoś lubi parowanie, ja takim graczem jestem ale po czasie się nudzi. Oprawa graficzna jest ładna, całkiem sporo mechanik - idealna ilość na rozmiar gry.

a sword game where the gameplay is frustrating and repetitive. First too easy and repetitive, then the difficulty increases artificially: enemies whose abilities are difficult to understand, some hits are not predictable, it is not clear with how many/which hits an enemy dies, inconsistent hitboxes. Mediocre story, artistically very interesting but they really ruined it with criminal gameplay.

very good sound and art design. the way it was presented is as if you're playing a classic japanese samurai movie. unfortunately that's all this game has to offer. the combat is really not great. does not feel great and feels repetitive towards the end of the game. No chapter select or NG+ so you have to collect all the upgrades you previously collected if you really wanted to go for another ending. Or if you're a completionist, if you missed a collectible in later part of the game, you will have to start all over again just to collect that missed collectible.