Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai
Way of the Samurai, développé par ACQUIRE Corp. et publié par Spike et BAM! Entertainment, est sorti le 7 février 2002 sur PlayStation 2 puis sur PlayStation Portable. Classé dans le genre aventure, le jeu se déroule en 1878, alors que la chute du shogunat Tokugawa et l'avènement de l'ère Meiji ont mis fin à l'âge des samouraïs. Le joueur incarne un ronin errant arrivant à Rakkotsu Pass, où trois factions s'affrontent pour le contrôle de l'avant-poste, notamment la famille Kurofu et le clan Akadama autour d'une fonderie de fer. Les choix du joueur, pouvant inclure tromperie, trahison ou combat, déterminent l'issue du conflit, et il peut manier des dizaines de sabres aux styles de combat variés. La durée de la trame principale est estimée à quatre heures, contre environ quarante et une heures et demie pour une approche complétiste, et le score agrégé du titre s'élève à 71,92. La presse a salué son immersion et son interactivité, GameCritics notant qu'il évite l'approche linéaire de nombreux jeux, tandis que GamePro a relevé l'intérêt du rejeu pour expérimenter personnages et dialogues. Certains joueurs sur Metacritic ont apprécié son portage PSP et son approche rogue-like inédite pour l'époque, tout en regrettant les difficultés des non-japonophones face à la langue originale.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Unlike many other games that take a linear non-interactive approach, Way Of The Samurai is immersive and interactive every step of the way. »
« The real joy of Samurai lies in the replay as you repeat the game, experimenting with characters and conversations armed with what you learned last time around in a Groundhog Day–style effort to try to get things "right." »
« Acquire did an outstanding job with the storyline of this game. »
« Despite some clunky inventory management and some frustrating camera angles, this'll be a game that you'll go back to whenever you're up for a couple of hours of mayhem and swordplay. »
« The way in which your character develops is refreshing for this type of game, even though the visuals and sound presentation are little more than mediocre. »
« Once it draws you into its web of intrigue, there's no escape. [Aug 2002, p.70] »
« Some players may be turned off by the game's simple looks and occasionally cumbersome control, but sticking with Way of the Samurai reveals considerable depth. »
« It’s a little short, and it doesn’t have a great variety of play, but WotS will satisfy those longing for a Bushido Blade 2 sequel. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Great title that ported into PSP, if dont understand Japanese language too bad for people who give WOTS1 bad review just because dont understood Japanese. Branching story makes game deeper and they have 2-players versus mode as well. But there's some flaws like fixed camera and the game only allowed to load the save file once before it deleted itself which quite annoying for some reason. But still good game for me which for everyone seems underrated. »
« A really neat take on a samurai adventure game. This is actually a rogue-like, which is not something you really saw at this time. While the story is fairly short, there is a lot of replayability. The sword play is serviceable and little bit above what you would expect for a PS2 game at the time. »
« Before we had Ghost of Tsushima and Like a Dragon: Ishin, there was Way of the Samurai. This is a game that I have spent hundreds of hours in and while it wasn't perfect, it was a great Samurai game. Highly recommended! »
« This game is super underrated. In a world where we don’t get many samurai games I can’t believe people underrate this series so much. The only reason this game gets bad reviews is because of reviewers that probably couldn’t understand the permadeath system. »
« A refreshing experience that's ahead of it's time when it comes to storytelling. The combat is deep and complex, the story and it's mechanics are fantastic. »
« This was a fantastic game. It was such a unique game for me to play back when I went to my friends house & played it. You're thrown into something that is akin to a old Japanese samurai story from back in the day. A lone wanderer that is thrust in the middle of feuding clans. All while the government is trying to end the era of the samurai. You can choose your side, or chose to avoid the entire conflict. I'd never played a game that gives you such options back then. Plus the gameplay was A+ stuff. It was so fun learning the sword techniques & learning how to best combat each style. Characters were very cool & interesting as well! If you're into old Japanese movies, then you will love playing this. It has very solid replay value, multiple ending & offers a wide variety of ways to go about finding those endings. I give this game a 10 & the highest recommendation for those that love a good samurai story. »
« Coming from someone who loves a game with a stellar combat system, sadly this game is not it. The controls feel clunky, and that they wanted to make their own adventure style take on 'Bushido Blade', and reinvent the wheel in regards to the control scheme. The story is bland and uninteresting to follow, and combine that with the fact that the combat has no real stand out to it, and in fact seems a little odd with how it is non-intuitive at first, this is neither a hidden gem nor a cult classic, just another game in a sea of half baked action games of yesterday, overshadowed by games that have stood the test of time. Way of the Samurai is about as cool as the part in the code of Bushido that says "only a man can truly satisfy another man". »
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