ronyarttam

I'll be perfectly honest, I'm only a couple hours in (which I've heard is a third of the game) and though I've heard some great things about this, I can't for the life of me understand why one might consider this more a game with clumsy, floaty fight mechanics, and less an interactive anime. The story is neat so far I'll give it that but in between the MANY cutscenes, I often find myself scrambling to pick the controller up as yet another quick time event sneaks its way into what I thought was a purely cinematic affair, right before dropping into another 2 minutes of stale, nearly antiquated fighting. The people calling this a god of war knockoff couldn't be more wrong. God of war combined excellent challenging fighting for long periods with cutscenes that were just as solid without overstaying their welcome. Can we STOP putting quick time events in cutscenes please?! When I see a cinematic I don't expect a pointless immediate death just to make sure I'm paying attention. By all means put it into the gameplay but leave the cutscenes to do what they're there to do. If I was watching a movie, and every 2 minutes the blueray wanted me to input a number on the remote within one second or the scene would restart, I'd throw the f*#@ing thing out the window! Cool-ish story, vanilla game.

Really wanted to like this but the controls just feel wrong. High speed through most corners without ever letting off the gas, then all of a sudden its too much for the car to take and you're sliding around like a greased up jabba the hutt. The physics just aren't there even for a PS2 game. I've seen much stronger graphics on this system as well. The story is an interesting idea I **** worth a cheap pick up if you need a half decent racing fix but don't expect Gran Turismo 3 which came out a year EARLIER and was way better than this. I don't get the 10's but I'll keep trying to like this.