i gave a spin to asura's wrath since i wanted to play a... you know,a game that's not a sequel to anything or stuff like that... i played up to stage 5 and it's kinda hard to judge,on one hand it is HEAVILY cutscene featured,like there are 5 (maybe even more) minutes of cutscene for each 1 minute of gameplay and actualy when you have to retry a level,it takes longer to skip all the cutscene (because they were distinguished mentally-challenged and skipping a cutscene don't put you into the next gameplay segment but throw you at the next cutscene,and of course you can't skip cutscene with QTE) than playing the actual game
and on the other,those cutscene's are totaly badass,the game open with a huge space battle between what can be described as cyber buddhist who have watched too many episode of dragon ball z versus size planet squids from hell,there are explosion,chorus music's and enough screaming people to make your average shounen anime blush,actualy i think this would be a perfect fit for anyone who digs that kind of anime especialy because the game wallow in the idea of being a shounen anime,each stage is separated in 2 parts which are separated by a gurren lagan style stillshot and each time you finish a stage,you get a "TO BE CONTINUED" and a preview of the next stage
so anyway,how does it play... there are basicaly 2 mode of plays,the first is basicaly rail-on shooting,stage 1 and 5 for example play like that,you got a lock-on shot,direct blasts and you can dash around the screen,the second is more like your average 3D action game,you got a combo attack and an heavy attack,the heavy attack push all the enemies far from you but you can only pull one every once in a while so you can't abuse it,you also got an air kick and a dash attack which can down enemies,downed enemies can be killed in one shot with a heavy attack which makes them fly all over the stage,quite funny too watch
you can also counter attack,as you get attacked there is a chance for the game to go like "PRESS Y LIKE RIGHT NOW" no fancy counter button or stick waggling like bayonetta here,you also have a rage bar which increase as you fight which make you stronger for a while and let you pull off heavy attack without the need to cooldown during the duration of it
one of the amusing thing of the game is that the enemies don't have any health,instead as you fight you fill a bar,when the bar is full you press a button and go into QTE mode,and after the QTE the stage end,some QTE go for a loooooooooooooooong time,this might sound horrible but the game gives ample warnings about what you need to do and failing one just decrease your score so it's not like resident evil "WHOOPS A ZOMBIE JUMPED ON YOU AND YOU PRESSED THE WRONG BUTTON AND NOW YOU ARE DEAD"
at the end of the stage you get scored for time,damage done and how well you did with the QTE,you also get to unlock bio's about character and concept art,there are also manga-like interlude between each stages which are quite beatifull to look at
so short version,i guess anime bore would enjoy this,that creepy old guy? not so much
