Monkeh Memos

I decided to try this out on the principle that it had an anime-esque cover. Not the best start but hey it worked for Lunar Genesis. Anyways I think the idea behind the game is you're in some form of tournament.. where you run around in the woods and kill feudal japanese guards. I don't think it goes much beyond that but I must admit I couldn't bear to play it for very long. Your main character is a guy or girl who is either average at everything, fast or strong. Same drill as usual. I of course chose the run-of-the-mill girl (in the japanese school girl uniform). Cos i could.

During this game you seem to run through the flat image of a forest and kill guards that appear from nowhere. After this you stand in a blue circle which transports you to another flat forest where you kill more guards. Which is great if you like pressing the square button. Liek, alot. Or say only have a working square button on your controller. Although you can also turn your staff into a big gun and shoot people, but it is even slower than the guards it shoot. So much so that it feels like she is physically constructing and deconstructing this gun every time you try to shoot someone.

As far as the bad guys go there are the guards... and the red guards (which I don't think do much more, so luckily people who are red/green colour blind are at no loss). Then there are the black samurai, and the black samurai who have dart pipes and wear big paper bags on their heads. Further levels also have ninjas which do little more than run at you... just like everyone else. I will admit I did stick with the game for a good 10 minutes just so I could punish these characters for ever existing. Each level seems to consist of killing 10 or 20 feudal japanese before you go on to the next lot of culling. Following several of these levels there was a giant bear-man-boss-thing. Which took as long to kill as the past twenty guards and did little more than fall over a lot.

All up this game is great if you prefer repetitive button mashing and character sounds to anything actually enjoyable. If you like hitting things I would suggest any DOA or Tekken instead.


PROS: Music didn't suck, and if you left it on pause long enough it almost sounded like the ocean.
CONS: Everything else/

All up rating: 1/10 (filled with suck)


  _Monkeh_