i remember playing the demo of this game, and after that i had to buy it. so i did, and maybe becuase i liked the demo so much, or whatever, but i thought this game was one of the best games i'd ever played. it will forever be remember by me as one of my favorite games of all time!

Just been playing it and I can't understand the vociferous hate that it gets. It's not great, but it's not as awful as it's made out to be either.

Glad that I finally gave it a go. :)

Maybe you guys just have a far larger tolerance for bad game design and crippling bugs than most people. Also, you probably ignored the hype when it came out.

Yeah... wait till you get to the ending, when you think you've won, but you haven't, only to get your butt handed to you in about... three seconds! Game over man, game over!

the game is decent, what killed it in the minds of the public was the marketing campaign, the endless delays and the decadence that went on at ion storm's main branch (as opposed to warren spectors much more modest digs that brought us deus ex). had this game come out on time, with a less moronic marketing campaign it would have been regarded as ok then quietly forgotten.

Daikatana is better then how Aliens colonial marines turned out to be.

The marketing campaign certainly didn't help, but it had nothing to do with why I disliked the game. I completely missed the campaign at the time, picking it up because it was a shooter and I love fps games. It was the idiotic companions that killed my soul.

After seeing some of the 4 & 5 star ratings here on GOG I thought maybe the game had been patched and the companions had been improved, but nope, still idiots who get stuck on the environment and go out of their way to make the experience miserable. That said I remember how level loads used to be horribly bugged, you were lucky to load a level without the game crashing. It seems very stable now. In fact I haven't had one crash yet and I've definitely loaded a lot.

The game has drastically improved since I got to Greece too. Dealing with only Mikikko at one time and level design with less ladders and awkward paths meant she actually never got stuck and it was smooth sailing. She did manage to fall off a ledge and gib at the bottom once, but luckily I had saved a few moments before.

Another horrible aspect I remember is the game originally didn't allow you to save anytime you wanted. You instead had to collect limited save gems. The stupid AI suiciding and getting stuck + limited saving was not a good combo.

it's just not a good game..
And for that very reason is has it's fans...a lot of them who think that standing up for Daikatana makes them daring, original,thinkers.