By Griff Hoffmann For lovers of crazy anime and Asian mythological cyborg demigods Asura’s Wrath will impress like a power level over 9000. The game is a uniquely structured interactive story mixed with hack and slash and rail shooter gameplay. There is little depth, skill, or sense to Aura’s Wrath but if you’re willing to just go with it there is some fun to be had.
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By Griff Hoffmann Don’t play NeverDead. I feel bad coming out right and condemning a game but it just isn’t good. NeverDead addresses the perennial problem of fail states in video games the wrong way. Having to collect the fragmented limbs and torso by rolling a head around gets tedious very quickly and simply reloading a save becomes more appealing. Perhaps this is linking the player to the character by drawing a simile between wishing for death instead of playing Marco Polo for remaining body parts and the character’s eternal life wrought with loss and suffering wishing only to be put out of his misery. If so, that link was successful but I don’t want to feel miserable and annoyed for eight hours, especially when I don’t have to.
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