New Review Posted: Genji: Dawn of the Samurai

[Daniel Weissenberger]

Mike Bracken reviews Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, and finds it an intriguing mix of peanut butter and chocolate:

"Odds are, if you could suck the DNA out of an Onimusha game and splice it with the genetic code you lifted from Sega's Shinobi, the resultant offspring would look a lot like Genji: Dawn of the Samurai. Yet, in the same way that two average human beings can combine to create a Tiger Woods or Mario Lemieux, Genji takes the gifts of both parents and turns them into something transcendent—something that resembles its parents, but exceeds them in a lot of really important ways."

The rest of the review is here.

[Gene Park]

I'm in complete agreement with the review. It's an excellent game that isn't anything special really, but really reminds me of old-school 16-bit, where there's just good action, cool visuals and awesome presentation.

[legendarypegasu]

I beat Genji a week or so ago and just finished playing through it again and completing the weapon list. Mike's review is right on. Genji is a soild action game with a good story and excellent visuals. I wasn't quite as taken by the CGI scenes, maybe I'm spoiled by Square Enix and various Xbox games, but I thought graphically they were above average. But they are very well directed and do tell the story well. It is too short and too easy, but for the $10 price tage it goes for, it is a worthy pick up.

It does make me intrigued for Genji 2. From my understanding, Genji was the developer's first effort. Hopefully, they will realize Genji had the potential to be a great game, it just had a few minor flaws which held it back.