~ DIFFICULTY ~

🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
✅ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 Dark Souls

~ GRAPHICS ~

🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
✅ Masterpiece

~ MUSIC ~

🔲 Bad
🔲 There is no music in this game
🔲 Good
✅ Beautiful

~ STORY ~

🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story
🔲 It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
✅ Epic story
🔲 Imagine Kingdom Hearts but on crack

~ PRICE ~

🔲 Free
🔲 Underpriced
✅ Perfect Price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

~ REQUIREMENTS ~

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
🔲 Average
🔲 High end
✅ NASA computer

~ LENGTH ~

🔲 Very Short (0 - 2 hours)
🔲 Short (2 - 15 hours)
✅ Average (15 - 50 hours)
🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours)
🔲 No ending

~ FUN ~

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
✅ The kind of fun you'll remember
🔲 Ride of your life

~ REPLAYABILITY~
🔲 It's a one-time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
✅ If you wait a few months/years
✅ Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

~ WORTH BUYING ~

🔲 No
🔲 Wait for sale
✅ Yes

Overall score 10/10

- Must we fight?
- Yes. You're treacherous. You made a fool of me.
- Don't get so mad. I couldn't help it.


I really wanted to begin this review with a haiku, Jin would probably have preferred but the stylish dynamism this game provides led my honorable path to the Kurosawa legacy, the legendary Japanese director this game is heavily inspired by. Everything is so incredibly cinematic and true. Both the story and locations depicted are an evident love letter to Japan and its culture, it is so satifying to save a little town from the invaders and then relax in one of the sparse onsen's or to calmly compose haiku's. It also invites you to wander in its woods, lakes and prairies and lose yourself in pure wanderlust.
On the technical side the inspiration from other games, especially Assassin's Creed is clear but the combat is pretty complex and unique. The game is also short enough not to become boring or a chore like other open world games, even if secondary missions can become a tad repetitive on the long run. The music is top notch to say the least,and is always on point in every situation.
Is this game perfect? Not at all, but it's an amazing experience I absolutely recommend. And there is even a button to take a bow:) ("6" if you play with keyboard + mouse)

(If you're curious about the quote at the beginning, please check this extract from Sanjuro (1962, Kurosawa), where it's clear where the inspiration for duels in this games came from.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkF6Zz67TE


https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3404711114

ABSOLUTE ART.

absolutely stunning.

---{ Graphics }---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Replayability }---
☐ Baldur's Gate 3
☐ Lots of different ways to play
☑ Good for a few runs
☐ For collectables, sure
☐ None
☐ Don't even play it once

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☑ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee (<5h)
☐ Short (5 - 10h)
☑ Average (10-30h)
☐ Long (30 - 60h)
☐ To infinity and beyond (>60h)

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Assassins Creed in Japan, but the main character is Asian

This game is absolutely beautiful, but I simply cannot bring myself to finish it. The gameplay is highly repetitive, much like Ubisoft games. While some of the stories are genuinely interesting, they’re overshadowed by shoddy animations, repetitive missions, and monotonous gameplay.

Absolut Masterpiece

Clean writing, fabulous visuals, no bs.
You can still keep your day job but you'll miss a week or two.
"Back problems, again"

I just finished it, and I loved every second of it. there's still more to do even after finishing the game so it'll keep me playing for a little while longer I guess.
highly recommend this game for its story, combat and graphics.
playing on keyboard takes a bit to get used to because of how they decided to spread the controls.
for example healing is Z. and ghost mode is alt+v. using the throwables and the bow is CTRL.
and very quickly you miss a key or just don't use some movesets because they're akward to perform on the keyboard. however I got used to it by the end of act 2, so you probably will too.

This game is epic, just get it.