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They also stealth kill like the best of them. Pretty much at that point, I believed I could have beat the game with just those two abilities, they are that powerful. You get the ability to teleport to shadows after a few minutes, and the tutorial at the beginning of the second level forces you to unlock an ability to draw a shadow on the ground anywhere. So the story just didn’t work for me, but the gameplay kind of saved the experience.Īragamis in this world are very powerful.

I’m an Aragami who dies by sunrise, the rest of it was just reasons to play the next level. The game kind of plays it as a big surprise but when I heard the term I shrugged and my reaction was between “Who was that?” and “ok so we’re almost done then?” It wasn’t important to me as a player, and really that’s the whole problem with the story, it never connected. With that said the ending comes entirely too fast and tries to surprise you with a rather dull twist, it doesn’t work for me because I didn’t care who a certain person was. It didn’t help that I was playing a game with open level design and was going back to try out new abilities and collect items, so I wasn’t always playing the newest level. The fact is there is so much game time between these points and it’s pure gameplay, not dialog, not casual conversation, not even a voice-over, but pure gameplay, that I just couldn’t find the energy to memorize the story. Again you nod and let it, and then play on. Another thirty minutes into the next level, the game coughs and goes “I need to tell you about this unrelated event”. You then get a two-minute vignette where the story says “Wait I have something to tell you, the Shadow Emperess’s sect was called Nisshoku, now you know.” The player nods politely and then plays another ten minutes or so to beat the level and you repeat the next level. You spend between thirty minutes to an hour on a level and then suddenly the story pops its head in as if its number just was called out.

The other problem with the story is it pops up at random times. She had a relatively normal life, and there were some people around her, and by the time there was a major twist, I wasn’t that interested in her backstory. I’m sorry writers, but I don’t have a reason to care about your terminology that you spent so much time trying to force on me, but it’s true.Īs an Aragami, you’re summoned by a woman who is named Yamiko and she gets most of the character development but even there, there wasn’t much that stood out to me. These words didn’t stick in my head mostly because most of the times they used the name of something like Kaiho they don’t show it on the screen so you’re attaching the sound to just a spoken word. The problem is the words are so forcefully used that the story has problems.

Your bird is named Kurosu and it will be called such for the rest of the game, never raven or bird. You fight again Kaiho a sect of warriors of light, who fought against a Shadow Empress, and the Nisshoku long ago.

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You are summoned by Yamiko to collect six talismans and free her. So much of Aragami’s story is about its words. I wouldn’t make such a big deal about this, but it’s indicative of the issues with the story of Aragami. That is a Ninja! I like Ninjas,” “No you’re an Aragami!”

I also have throwing daggers and can disappear into the night. “So wait, I use stealth attacks, attacks from above and fight with a katana like a sword. In fact, in Aragami, the game never uses the word Ninja and instead keeps talking about you as a vengeful spirit. Well, the first thing the game does is tell you quite specifically you’re an Aragami, not a ninja. Simple selection criteria, let’s see how I did. I wasn’t sure what the game was about but I wanted to see why there was a “ninja” on the cover. I actually picked Aragami because of the “ninja” on the cover. Well, that’s not true, I have many games I could have picked. I picked up Aragami because I needed a short game for a review between two review copies I had, just something to play. Also Available on Linux, macOS, PlayStation 4.

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