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The Spirit of the Samurai is an impressive work of stop-motion art paired with a dissatisfying, frustrating action game
- The Spirit of the Samurai’s strongest suit is its striking visuals, its a linear platform hack n’ slasher that's a great work of stop-motion animation style.
- Combat mechanics in The Spirit of the Samurai is confusing with enemies being unpredictable making it harder to attack, & attacks that leave gaps and consume character's stamina immediately, making it difficult to survive.
- The game's mechanics give a sense of individual systems being added arbitrarily and the addition of random items that can be traded for gold leaves people asking why.
- The systems, intriguing as they may be, do not really make much sense & do not enhance the overall experience.
- Also, the game's cutscenes are not in stop-motion animation, which isn't in line with the game's mechanics making the two different parts of the game appear not well-placed together.
- The game that ends within four hours is visually excellent, but it had so many features that a majority adds nothing to the gameplay, making the game frustrating.
- While combats are interesting, it does not feel like they are put in service of something coherent.
- In addition to a technical combat system, there are also two short stealth segments where you play as the samurai's kitten; they do not quite gel and are completely inessential.
- The game had everything to be consistently good, but someone threw an extra box of arbitrary systems into the mix, which resulted in an overall dissatisfying feeling.
- The Spirit of the Samurai is out now on Steam.
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