Asura´s Wrath Review

What equals "Dragon Ball´s (over the top) power levels" + "Naruto's cool moves and skills" + "Bleach´s badass characters" being a video game just like street-fighter?

The answer for the one million dollar question is...  "Asura´s Wrath "

Asura's Wrath is not like any game you have ever played before (it is totally mind blowing... Hell yeah!) - it is a rarity - if you've been playing games for a long time. It is mostly a living and breathing anime than traditional action game. It delivers a story that is "up there", with the best that gaming has to offer in visual spectacle (mind blow), though it looks more like a film, and rather shies away from actually being a game... but who cares it´s awesome!

Time to fly 

The game's story spans 12,000 years and follows the story of Asura, a demi-god, who his said that he was betrayed by his fellow gods and thrown out of heaven. He loses his wife and daughter to a power-plot dreamed up by the other deities, and finds himself resurrected centuries later through the sheer force of his anger. As he comes back to life, he notices how the world is in chaos due to his former comrades, which in turn forces his rage to get stronger and stronger, leading to some incredible scenes of over-the-top, fantastical violence, anime style (spoiler alert please close you eyes or jump this part ).

You'll see some astonishing things, examples of which are: the Earth exploding into a gigantic laser-shooting maw, a sword so long it can cleave the Moon in two, and Asura regularly punching people so hard that they literally go into orbit.

It is best described as an interactive anime box-set. The game is split into 18 episodes (with a secret unlockable, one at the end) and (of course capcom ) 4 extra episodes that you can only get by paying for the DLC. In two of these, we fight against Ryu and Akuma from "Street Fighter" in a beat 'em up style. Each one of the episodes has a length of about 20 minutes, and  is ended by gorgeously illustrated bumpers and adorned with credits just like a real television show; there is even a narrated preview before each one that hints at what's about to happen. 

Each one of these episodes features completely different game-play, dependent on the scenario. (Spoiler alert please close you eyes or jump this part )

He is angry... (No shit!) 

In one episode, you might punch, kick, or even headbutt monsters to death, while in the next episode you are shooting them in space. After, you may be engaged in an epic anime-style one-on-one confrontation on the moon. In one episode, the objective is to stop Asura from being a pervert: I am talking about big boobies! (I'm not making that up! They were huge! Couldn't stop staring at them!)

Add some tail´s and it looks just like Naruto in Kyubi mode, or add the yellow spiky hair and it´s Goku...

The static illustrations that feature between episodes are gorgeously detailed too – as you might expect from a studio (CyberConnect 2) whose staff are filled passion for manga and anime.

For me, the game is one of the best, but as I said before, it is short; most of  time you're watching rather than playing: you're lucky if any given episode gives you more than three or four minutes of actual gameplay.

Its story is what keeps you playing: you always want to know what's going to happen next (I want more!). Sadly to say, Asura's Wrath is barely six hours long, which is very short for a full-price game (capcom!).

There's incredible union between gameplay and theme in Asura's Wrath: there's no better genre than the action game for a story about a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very (I could do this all day!) angry man channeling his rage into an all-consuming destructive power. It is a game that is story based and lacks  in substance (said clean and simple of course !). But still I liked it (What? I can’t help but love Asura’s Wrath for having the bravery to try something completely new!). To sum up: you should absolutely play Asura’s Wrath, because it’s an experience like no other, but be aware of its content before you put down your cash (Capcom!).

So this is my verdict:

7.5/10

That is the score.

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