Many years ago, I got a few hours into this game before putting it down for an indefinite hiatus. That hiatus ended this morning when I woke up and, on the second day of a four-day weekend, decided to play it until beating it. That only took me an hour and a half to do, and half an hour of that I can attribute to relearning the control scheme, the gameplay mechanics, and more or less everything in general. The most telling thing I can say about this game is that I remember almost none of it at all. Six or seven years ago, I played it almost entirely through, and yet I needed to use Wikipedia to remind me of the plot up until the point I was at, and even then I had zero recollection of it whatsoever. It's simply a hack-and-slash game that many have compared to Resident Evil with Samurai warriors instead of zombies. Puzzle elements are there, but take a backseat to mostly-pointless slicing and dicing. I guess the very definition of the word "forgettable" seems to sum up this particular gaming experience for me. That said, there are a lot of people who enjoyed this game a lot, and I know it's one of the more popular and well-known titles on the PS2. Fortunately, I didn't buy all of the sequels to this game as I've done with several other games I ended up not liking that much (Viewtiful Joe comes to mind immediately, and I'm sure I'll be sick of the Call of Duty games soon enough). I can't give this game a hearty recommendation, but if you're really big into Resident Evil (looking at you, Sween) then this game may be more up your alley than it was up mine.
I'll consider it, but not enough to put it on the wishlist yet or anything, so that means this would be pretty far off. I know the RE games pre-4 must look pretty boring, but the "whole game is a giant puzzle" style kinda grew on me.
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