07-20-2003, 11:17 PM
I found the game to be really boring.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?da...1-15&res=l
First of all. We're presented with some sort of mission. Avenge your father, however, the beginning of the game is spent asking people stupid questions and getting stupid answers. Then after you amass quite a bit of nothing, you decide to go to Hong Kong. So you spend the second half of Disc 1 getting money. This is done by coaxing people for money, having your stupid friend ruin everything, then suddenly slamming all of your money on a seedy joint...just to get swindled.
Then we get to go to the Harbor, and work for money...sigh, I don't even get to Hong Kong, and the back of the Jewel Case said I got to travel to a far-away land.
But to be honest, for all the hype it received, the game didn't seem very innovative. All the activity around the 2 places you go to walk around were the same 10-20 people who all said the same 5 phrases to blow you off. The fighting was a subpar version of something like Virtua Fighter 3 (which was pretty Subpar to begin with). The relationships you develop or dumb. The girl you pine after is unattainable since Ryo will call her up and just say that there's nothing to talk about...just so the girl can move away as part of the story line.
This game can be summed up as a bad story, with bad Voice Acting, and boring gameplay (too easy to finish to boot).
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?da...1-15&res=l
First of all. We're presented with some sort of mission. Avenge your father, however, the beginning of the game is spent asking people stupid questions and getting stupid answers. Then after you amass quite a bit of nothing, you decide to go to Hong Kong. So you spend the second half of Disc 1 getting money. This is done by coaxing people for money, having your stupid friend ruin everything, then suddenly slamming all of your money on a seedy joint...just to get swindled.
Then we get to go to the Harbor, and work for money...sigh, I don't even get to Hong Kong, and the back of the Jewel Case said I got to travel to a far-away land.
But to be honest, for all the hype it received, the game didn't seem very innovative. All the activity around the 2 places you go to walk around were the same 10-20 people who all said the same 5 phrases to blow you off. The fighting was a subpar version of something like Virtua Fighter 3 (which was pretty Subpar to begin with). The relationships you develop or dumb. The girl you pine after is unattainable since Ryo will call her up and just say that there's nothing to talk about...just so the girl can move away as part of the story line.
This game can be summed up as a bad story, with bad Voice Acting, and boring gameplay (too easy to finish to boot).