Muramasa: The Demon Blade for Wii Reviews by Gamers

I did enjoy this game but there just didn't seem like there was enough there. Let me elaborate. The stylized backgrounds and enemies work beautifully together to make this one of the most colorful and wonderous looking games on the wii. The story comes in two parts as two different playable characters and is rather lengthy for an action game like this. Muramasa does deliver an easy to learn combat system and does have RPG elements that let you level up and build upon a tree of swords, but these elements are both flawed in my opinion. First of all the combat system is far too easy and feels more like button mashing. Plus the special move that you get with every sword is very weak and surprisingly not very visually stimulating. Most of the time I found that mashing the A button and changing directions is all I needed to beat every single opponent. For an action RPG I would think the action would be more complicated. Second the RPG elements are weak. Strength and Vitality are the only two attributes you can level up and the only thing that these attributes effect is what sword you can use. Swords very in attack points and one extra element that usually just increases your strength or vitality. So you level up just to be stronger attacking and have more life. I know its an RPG lite but this is a little too lite. Bottom line is that this will only appeal to some. I consider myself a hardcore gamer and I felt that there just wasn't enough substance here to keep me playing.