Sunday, April 26, 2009

Gametrailers video on Muramasa

via kotaku

This game's atmosphere is looking really good. I like to compare it to Okami, but the art style is of course different. However, my biggest worry is that this game goes the way of Viewtiful Joe, Okami, and Shadow of the Colossus. Gamesradar has no problem shoe horning these games all the time when the topic of good games that didn't sell come up, and Muramasa just strikes me as a game with an ambigious financial future.

Look the facts: the developer and publishers aren't widely known, it's of the beat-em up genre, it's heavily involved with Japanese mythos. Hardcore audiences are sure to eat it up, but what about Joe Schmoe? Your mother? The manager deciding on what to order for his next shipment of games?

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