Music is serviceable but incredibly memorable, usually fitting nicely with each level and the current theme it’s going for. These areas are expansive and tend to reach much farther out than you would expect, but aren’t afraid to throw you into closed, tight spaces with plenty of death traps ready to take your life. You begin in a wooden based temple, fighting off large brutes with knives, but progressing further leads you to futuristic neon cityscapes populated with thugs and robots all trying to hunt you down. Character models are small and often feel like little toys jumping around these largely crafted areas (more on those later,) with simple but fun designs, with much of your enemies taking on a sort of cyberpunk like aesthetic, adding a rather nice charm.
Graphically, it seems to maintain this mix of both large and small scale feel to it. While it is presented in gorgeously drawn comic strips, it will not leave a lasting impression and you’ll ultimately end up not paying much attention to it. By order of his master, he escapes to protect his clan’s relic from the invaders, returning to find a power play amongst clans and masters and his actions will determine the fate of the world, very basic the hero must save the day stuff. You play as Kuro, a well trained ninja by the master of his clan, facing invaders from rival clans encroaching on their guild. The story is a very bare bones way of justifying your trek through several different environments. It’s not without some sort comings so we’ll discuss them first.Īs I mentioned, the game certainly feels like a mobile, for better and slightly worse. Shadow Blade Reload does this perfectly, creating a game that is very clearly made as a mobile title first but injected with the blood of a good platforming game to create a very fun little run and gun (or slice seeing as you’re a ninja) type platformer. It carves a specific experience that manages to keep you hooked with this ever present need to complete just one more level, often finding ways of gobbling up much more of your time than you thought. When a title intended for release on larger scale devices crafts itself around these mobile ideals it offers up different experience you would typically find elsewhere in a much smaller scale. There’s no denying that when done right, these types of games often make for thrilling and more importantly, addicting adventures. It’s one of much quicker enjoyment, feeding our pleasure center in a more direct, fast paced manner in a bite sized variety. Even South Park had fun at cracking some well deserved critism and jokes at it’s expense, with the usual South Park charm.ĭiscussing the ideal of freemium is a topic for another day by someone much more informed, but ignoring the model itself, there’s certainly a method to designing a game to be play on a mobile interface that will influence the way in which we interact with it, offering up a different sort of satisfaction. Though this is typically due to the nature of the, “Freemium,” free-to-play model that many developers of more than just mobile apps tend to employ where much of the ire and disgust seems to be rooted and aimed at.
It can often be regarded it as a lesser type of gaming that requires less commitment and dedication to the cause than what we consider to be a more traditional method of enjoying interactive entertainment seen on consoles and PC. Peoples frustrations with the genre of gaming is understandable at times and there’s certainly a conceited effort to just their feelings toward it. Mobile gaming is a growing and ever present segment of the gaming industry that, despite it’s size and reach, seems to have typically have very polarising opinions from those who consider themselves, “gamers”.
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