Rated "I" for Immature
posted by kirkland (NORTH BEND, WA) Dec 25, 2008
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Save yourself the $40 and 20 hours of your life and just watch the boss fights on youtube.
To be fair, I really enjoyed the retro 80's video game feel of the graphics and sound (whether it was intentional or not), the almost-plausible light saber concept, and the unique boss characters. The cell-phone calls that come through the wii remote were a nice touch.
However, 3 boss fights into it, I just couldnt take it anymore.
Whoever cranks these games out needs to hire an actual english-speaking "grown-up" to do some quality control on the dialogue. After the first boss battle, the main character asks the head honcho girl "If I become Number One, will you 'do it' with me?" ("Do it", for those of you not out of 1st grade yet means "have s-e-x".)
Who, in their mid-late twenties, actually talks like that?
Secondly, how much more repetitive can the combat possibly get? Aside from the fact that every bad guy thug looked the same, I think the "finishing move" was completely disruptive to the flow of fighting. It got to a point where I didnt care if I got the random "super-move" because it always happened at a point where I didnt need it, or the camera angles prevented me from using it effectively.
Some minor gripes
- I could have coped with just a simple save menu. Seeing the guy sitting on the toilet every time I want to save or load the game is unnecessary.
- It was funny how the bad guys would groan after they've been cut in half vertically.
- I hated every moment I had to drive the motorcycle.
- There was really nothing else to do in the city except run over people. I mean come on, let me hijack a car or something.
- The mexican wrestling masks seemed too contrived; felt like yet another thing to collect. Would have been more inline with the game theme to collect Vegas prostitute cards instead.
-What quasi-metro assassin keeps anime girl dolls in a case in their apartment?
Another potentially great game lost in translation.
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