Nishi Reviews: Way of the Samurai 3
1Reading out my written review for Way of the Samurai 3.
Written Review:
I have always been fascinated with samurai’s, and this series has always been really cool at allowing you to play as a samurai. You have over 100 weapons available to you, and you can easily find one that fills your play style. This game compares more to the first game than the second one, while obviously has changes between them. On top of those decisions you can create your own character and choose between different heads and outfits.
This games story plays out differently than most games, and it runs about 20+ endings I believe. You decisions and choices in conversations drastically changes the outcome of the game, and people respond better to some choices than others. The game runs about 6-8 hours per ending, but a lot of endings are related to each other (like one simple choice) so you can speed up other endings since you know what’s going on. I like how they did this, while it’s not Metal Gear or anything, it’s a nice change of pace to play these games every now and then.
The game play is a mix of samurai action and arcade fighter. When you’re fighting enemies you focus on one at a time, and when you take them out another steps in. with the variety of weapons available you can do sweeping attacks with some them and take out multiple people, even if you’re just focusing on one. The map is broken up into a bunch of different areas, and you can visit all of them from the get go. Blue exclamation marks show the inklings (story) events you can see, and even the order as you see some of these changes the game.
You can kill every person you see in this game (Kids excluded), and this also can change the outcome of the game. If certain NPC’s die that can mess up certain events you want to do, and people even get scared of you the more you kill and they run away. One interesting thing they threw in the game is that if you buy a bunch of stuff from one of the stores, and if you kill them you can get your money back.
The graphics are basically good PS2 era. While I know that the graphics where on the back burner for a fun game, I still would like some next gen graphics. It’s not too bad though, and doesn’t take away from the playability of the game. The sound swords make and what happens to the people when they get hit is pretty cool, but the remix main theme from the game is the best sound effect.
Not many samurai games are out there that let you make decisions and provide you with all these different weapons. If you can over look the graphics and some minor annoyances, this can be a fun samurai game that everything you do affects the outcome of the game. Just a heads up though, this is one of those games that are only on sale for a bit before they stop making them, so if your remotely interested pick one up before it picks up in price. I got mine on sale at gamestop, so I have a feeling that has already happened.
Length: As I said before there are multiple different ends and some can be done real fast, while others take longer to do. The game keeps a tally of the total hours that you have played, so that’s nice to keep track of when you’re replaying this a lot. If you like collecting items you can exceed over 50 hours or more trying to get everything.
Trophies / Achievements: These games trophies are pretty time consuming. Each different type of weapon group has a stance, and trophies are related to these stances. In order to get the complete move collection you have to collect Every. Last. Weapon. (102+ I think) This takes a long time to do, and keep in mind all the other trophies for getting all the endings, 100 chain kills, and so many others. I’m at 50-60 hours right now and I haven’t got the platinum yet, so this can take you awhile to platinum this game.
~ Written: August, 2010
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