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Yak's The Way I Like It

Advantages: Great combat, fine story, positive new additions, Kazuma Kiriyu
Disadvantages: Dated presentation, poor translation and sound quality

...Familiarity is definitely no bad thing for this excellent second entry to SEGA’s Yakuza series, as the return of a comprehensive combat system, a superb central character and a wealth of engaging missions outweigh its ugly presentation and patchy translat ...

tom1clare 12.04.2010 · Read full review
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Issun It Grand?

Advantages: The most creative visuals on PS2, celestial brush, great music, lengthy and inventive
Disadvantages: Some very long cut-scenes, difficulty mgiht be a touch gentle for some

Clover Studio's first cel-shaded adventure Viewtiful Joe garnered much critical acclaim for its fresh spin on the ageing 2D platform genre, but impressive though it was, few could have foreseen that it would be just a warm up for what the developers were ...

tom1clare 23.08.2008 · Read full review
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A review from an RPG 'newbie's point of view

Advantages: Great graphics, not as difficult as other games, easy to get engrossed in
Disadvantages: Saving game progress can be unnecessarily complicated, using the brush can be awkward

I'm never been particularly 'into' RPG/Strategy games like Zelda and so on, though ive played console and computer games since we got our first computer in the house back in 1992 when I was 9 years old. What puts me off these games is the complexity of th ...

IzzyS 29.07.2007 · Read full review
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Okami...Ancient Japanese laserbeams anyone?

Advantages: Visually stunning, innovative combat system
Disadvantages: May take some time to get used to

Okami follows the adventures of Amaterasu (pay attention now, 'cause here's where it gets kina weird) - a sun goddess, once destroyed and now reincarnated as a shining white wolf, charged with the task of saving Nippon (feudal Japan) from scores of demoni ...

Lazerhead 27.05.2007 · Read full review
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Wolf was you thinking

Advantages: Unique gameplay with fantasy brush stroke artwork
Disadvantages: Loads of finger tapping and back & forth to previous locations

Okami is based on a Japenese myth about how a wolf & warrior saved there world. But the myth becomes real once again. You play as Okami the Wolf and have help from a Sprite who\'s talent is painting. Okami is fast moving with puzzles and very unique game ...

Siren25 05.09.2007 · Read full review
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