Tokyo 42

A chore to play, will make you want to headbutt your monitor. Stealth is ok but the game forces combat upon you multiple times and the combat is absolutely ATROCIOUS. Bosses cheat their to victory, throwing 10-30 grenades at once and the game doesn't show you where they will land (there needed to be some indicator on the ground showing where frags will land). Everyone (including you) dies in 1 hit, except for the bosses. Enemies predict where you are going and lead their shots with pinpoint accuracy, their shots go through objects, above cover, around corners. Meanwhile your shots are blocked by everything in the environment. This is game is worth about $5 just so you can run around the city and enjoy the pretty, low poly graphics for a few minutes.

The design for the game is wonderful, I like the colorful look where each area has a unique theme from others. The games nails it with the visual and audio feedback to the player and it's beyond charming. Yet, the game loses it when it comes to managing the isometric camera. There are plenty of times and fights where you need to pivot the camera fast and you can't. Even more so, the control scheme hinders you to from fully being able to move and rotate the camera in action, you're left with either one or the other but not both. This wouldn't be a harsh issue if not for the fact that buildings in the foreground will block your character and any projectiles that being fired. Mix this with the slightly awkward firing mechanics and you're left in a game that you love looking at and listening to but can't play without a serious handicap. I don't hate this game, I just wish there was better controls for moving the character, moving the camera, and fading out foreground objects so you're not stuck in blind spots.

The game really is gorgeous, with a unique aesthetic sense. It's cyberpunk, sure, but with a palette and style that puts it apart. The music is highly appropriate to the visuals, with a lot of soothing synth. The gameplay is... basically acceptable, but without depth. Your fifth hour won't be much different from your fifth minute. The game really wants to be the next Syndicate, and that's a great goal, but you have to build on your core gameplay. The game attempts to change things up with mandatory sniping levels and escalating difficulty, and to be fair some of this works on a basic level. But often the difficulty is either an insane spike that feels arbitrary, or is easily cheated around. The story is the worst part of the game. Games need some level of context to get a player involved, so a bad story can often be forgiven so long as it just provides an understanding of why goals are important, but you can't do this; The story is wholly dictated by gameplay mechanics. The reason you respawn, the reason you're going around killing people, all of it. Somebody made an engine and then justified everything in post, is what it feels like. And when the player gets that feeling about two seconds after being introduced to it, it breaks the minimal amount of immersion you need to establish. Characters don't fare much better, as they're almost all an identical, pragmatic-psychotic archetype. Everybody has a similar "ends justify the means" sort of attitude, which might leave you questioning how each of them arrived at radically different outcomes. This is a disappointing game overall, but it's basically playable rather than being outright bad.

i wrote a long review about the horrible gameplay, storyline and much more. couldnt hit save button but the cancel button works just fine. horrible game dont recommand it to anyone. especially for this price