Of the items available to you to use, the sword is easily the weapon of choice. It can get you out of a
bind if cornered by simply thrashing it about and, when you kill someone, you can grab their sword and
use two at once. This doesn't work for too long as your man has a tendancy to throw one of them away
when you'd rather he held onto it. The grapple hook is good fun, used in similar fashion to Spiderman's
web-slinging antics, but the control system used to select an item and then use it by focusing on what
you want to grapple onto can get too complex at times and if you're being chased by someone then forget
it - just leap onto a wall and there's bound to be a roof nearby.
Similarly, in the heat of battle, to select and throw accurately certain items you've bought
beforehand, such as a shuriken. It's so much easier to just hack'n'slash with your sword.
That said, once you've got the jist of this title, and it will take a few hours to do so, you can
perform pretty cool moves and a few different attack combos like jumping about and snapping someone's
neck or grappling with them. Try to avoid the latter if others might be nearby since if you don't kill
the one with which you're grappling, you'll both spend a moment to catch your breath and it's at that
point where the others will strike.
One slightly annoying this is the game's autosave feature so if you screw up a mission you can't redo
it, you lose 'trust' and have to soldier on and rebuild that trust, by either doing some easier,
less-rewarding missions or staying home and defending your garden from baddies. Without checking again,
I think this is turn offable but the missions and locations do get a bit repetitive, as do the backdrops,
so the same one will come up again in some form or another if not the same mission again itself. In fact,
I killed some bigwig a second time within the space of a few missions, thinking it couldn't really be
him again, surely? The names of them aren't easily memorable so I just made an assumption. Still, it was
good fun to slash his throat again...
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