Summary Genji: Days of Headaches

Reviewer's Comments

Genji: Days of the Blade... it's rather difficult to get used to if you haven't played the first Genji. Yes, there are more characters and missions. But with those new characters, you have new headaches that you have to deal with.

-- GRAPHICS --
The graphics are appealing for an early PS3 game, but I have to admit that I was expecting the game to support up to 1080p resolution. There is more detail in the character's costumes, and scenery; however, when you play the game you're going to be way to busy killing the endless amounts of enemies to be able to really notice.

-- SOUND --
The background music is there basically to make it so that you don't get tired of the damage sound effects. It doesn't really add anything to the game experience. The sound effects actually got on my nerves, and I ended up turning off my sound system because of the repitiveness of them. When it comes to character voices, they did a pretty good job on that. They had the words match up with the lip movements pretty well, and I only noticed a few times where things were out of sync.

-- CONTROL --
Now for game control... everything goes in the direction that you tell it to when you give the command. The only problem is that you'll be fighting off so many enemies that you'll want to attack one guy, and then do a quick turn to hit another, and you can't. This leaves you open to a lot of free hits.

-- GAMEPLAY --
This game is ideal for those of you that love games that have tons of action constantly throughout the entire game. You'll be facing literally hundreds of thousands of enemies throughout the game, and it's all in real time.

When it comes to character development, this game doesn't really have much to offer. The skills that you start out with don't change much throughout the game. Yes, you do get some new skills throughout the game, but some of them get rather complex, and you won't be able to pull them off in a major battle. The Kamui effect is fun to do, but after the 1000th time doing it, you get pretty bored of it.

Some of the levels give you such bland objective descriptions that you have absolutely no idea on what you're supposed to be doing. The Ichinotani Battlefield stage is just one of them. I ended up playing this level for 6 hours my first time through, and then I finally decided to go search for guides on GameFAQs.

Actually damaging some of the opponents can be a headache in itself. Some will just stand there and let you hit them, while others will move to the side just as you start your attack. The lack of a follow-through slash with Yo****sune really aggrivated me.

Benke's power-up attacks are really nice for leveling a group of enemies... that is if they don't beat the hell out of you while you're trying to do an attack.

Shizuka is a nice new addition to the game. She's got great range of attack, with a lot of speed. The only problem is that you have to hit your target a good 5 - 8 times (depending on what opponent it is) to take them down, obvisouly bosses will take a lot more.

Buson just flat out sucks. His attacks are way too hard to aim, and his special attack has an annoyingly long recharge time. His Kamui is very usefull though, but you probably won't want to switch him in unless you're using him for his Kamui. Buson has a lot of power with his attacks, that is if you can get them to actually hit something other than air.

I gave the gameplay an "Inspiring" rating solely for the large amount of action that is in this game. You'll be facing endless amounts of opponents, so be prepared when you play this game.

-- REPLAY --
I played through this game a second time just to see if I'd like it a second time. The answear is no. It was way to complicated the first time, and then I go sick of it the second time.

I kept the game in my archives because I don't believe in throughing a game away once you've gotten it... unless it's so horrible that you can't stand to look at it (like FFX-2).

-- OVERALL --
If you buy games solely for action, buy the game and enjoy it.

If you buy games for more than just the action, then buy it beat it once, and then sell it back to EBGames.

Thank you for reading my review of Genji: Days of the Blade

Happy gaming everyone (^_^)