Monday, July 25, 2016

Shadow Warrior - CAN YOU HANDLE THE WANG?

$4 during summer steam sales. Played it using my controller. Pretty smooth on most parts but once fights starts to get messy, some inputs can be really frustrating to execute on the controller. Same applies to the keyboard, certain inputs are not that convenient.

No. of hours in: 21 hours
Upgrades: MAXED
Gameplay was pretty damn fun! Hack and Slash with various gun-play included for the stylish. Crossbow, flamethrower and demon heads are my favourites! Weapons upgrades keeps me going makes the game so much more fun to play as you equip them with awesome secondary fires! Katana skills are legit cool but i just hope they would include more of these skills since the campaign is 16 hours long!
Monster variety is alright, would not complain about it. Japanese background setting is really beautiful and at the meantime you are slaying demons in half. KI crystals and Karma points are needed for upgrading Wang and his abilities. This form of skill system is great and does motivates to search for Karma pots!
Wang's humor is a huge bonus to the game! It always brings laughter to me whenever he argues with Hoji! Fortune cookies are great collectibles and most of these cookies are really comical. You will want to collect it!
Shadow Warrior campaign is a long-ass 16 hours of gameplay! Too long for a single-player campaign in my opinion. 8-12 hour campaign would be ideal. It is because of such a long campaign, it makes gameplay really repetitive! Every monster wave felt pretty much the same, either 2 minotaurs, 2 shamans or 2 berserkers etc.
Some places are just too dark that even the torchlight doesn't make a difference. Too little katana skills for such a long campaign.

+ POSITIVES
  • Weapon upgrades are great and encourages farming for money
  • Skill tree system is simple and effective
  • Wang's humor 

+ NEGATIVES
  • Too long for a campaign (>15 hours)
  • Repetitive gameplay

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