{"id":1302,"date":"2004-05-26T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-26T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/05\/monsters-known-as-hellspawn\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T10:21:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:21:44","slug":"monsters-known-as-hellspawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2004\/05\/monsters-known-as-hellspawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters known as &#8220;Hellspawn&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>Oh, there is a Japanese dub. Was this in the menu before? I don&#8217;t recall seeing it. Although still not perfect, the acting here is about the level of a decent-budget anime. Especially given the setting and the subject, the game sounds far less proposterous this way.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. The only part of the game which is really tough so far is in the jumping. And that is not so much because the jumping itself is poorly-done; it&#8217;s just that it can take some trial-and-error to gauge where Hotsuma can leap and where he can&#8217;t. The game does not really support this approach: when you fall, you die; when you die, it&#8217;s game over. You must start the round again from the beginning. This can be refreshing; in this way, you learn the hard way how to blast through a level without error &#8212; as with, say, <i>Castlevania<\/i>. For platforming sections, and for other areas where you&#8217;re just trying to figure out how to progress, it is less refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Still. This is kind of fun, so far. Although I guess it does have some <i>Shinobi<\/i>-ish qualities after all &#8212; they are just minimized &#8212; the game continues to remind me more of <i>Ninja Gaiden<\/i>. Which in itself is fun, since &#8212; as I mentioned a while ago &#8212; the new <i>Ninja Gaiden<\/i> reminds me more of <i>Shinobi<\/i> than of <i>Ninja Gaiden<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am on the doorstep of a mild sickness. I am doing my best to backpedal.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, there is a Japanese dub. Was this in the menu before? I don&#8217;t recall seeing it. Although still not perfect, the acting here is about the level of a decent-budget anime. Especially given the setting and the subject, the game sounds far less proposterous this way. Yeah. 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