benburglartron

Absolute masterpiece. Words can't express my love for this underrated hidden gem.

I remember playing bunch of hours into this game. It was a pretty fun solid choose your adventure samurai game. I like how you can't just button mash your way through the fights and actually have to strategize much like how a real life samurai would. And I also like how the NPCs remember your actions. Like if you stole from a store, then that same store would point that out when you visit it again. Or sometimes, if you killed someone from a certain faction like the Aoto Gang, a member of that faction would try to attack you when you encounter them in the open world. That's lowkey pretty ahead of its time. It also really adds to the choices you make and make them feel like they matter. Yeah, so, overall.. Not bad. A really solid samurai game. Hope it gets another sequel (not likely though).

Maybe I'm a little bias but I genuinely did enjoy this game. It was one of my favorite game to play growing up and while it's not like the most mind blowing spy games out there but personally, I did enjoy it. The missions were fun. I like how different each of the missions' environments are. I enjoy the stealth. And I thought the overall storyline and the twist was pretty solid. Overall, not bad but also not a masterpiece. Still, I'd say this is a pretty underrated long forgotten PS2 game.