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If you even have one friend who enjoys anime, odds are you've heard of Attack on Titan. As a fan myself it seemed right up my alley, and my weekly anime club ended up giving it a shot last year.
Sadly, I wasn't impressed. While the premise for Titan is intriguing, there's an overabundance of filler (even more than your average series) and a lack of worthwhile characters outside of a select few -- two key components that made it incredibly difficult for me to enjoy. The few and far between action sequences are great, but I only truly liked the first OVA episode (Ilse's Notebook), which is the only bit of the show that gave us anything remotely interesting lore-wise.
Matt Ferguson of G4@Syfygames is a sucker for licensed anime video games, regardless of their technical flaws. His feature takes a look at why even mediocre anime games are often still endlessly entertainingly for fans of the original media.
This is actually true...
I remember investing countless hours playing Naruto Ultimate Ninja on PS2 versus my best mate.
The game use to be slaughtered by the media with ratings such as 3/10 lol..
For me it was that Bleach game. Not that I can say I actually had that much fun with it...but for some reason I kept going and actually liked it.
same goes for any game really. i remember toe jam and earl on the original xbox got horrible reviews but i grew up with that game on the sega genesis and loved both games.
Tales games don't usually get amazing scores, but I love them as I would a triple A game! :)
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"Technically flawed games are often still golden to reviewers" *
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*by flawed we mean broken. By golden, we mean how much we think we think we can line our pockets by giving it a perfect score.
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Maybe people don't always look for every little flaw like reviewers do. It's also possible that the enjoyment one gets from playing a game outweighs those flaws, and for fans of a game or IP, anime or not, the idea of being able to have a new experience with that counter-acts the negative aspects of it.
However, if an anime game is complete trash, the anime fan is just as likely to complain about it as the gamer. Probably more so really because they can be pretty passionate about their anime. Some anime forums are quite scary when a bad game crops up. That being said, most anime games that make it westward are generally pretty solid. Probably have a lower percentage of technically flawed games than most western produced AAA games nowadays.
Great news for European Attack on Titan fans as the 3DS game Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains has finally be released in the region, although it's not called "Attack on Titan."
While the intensity and action is accurately portrayed from the anime, Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains has some fatal flaws that prevent fans of the show like us from enjoying it fully. The single-player missions are challenging and short with a ten hour campaign mode. Multiplayer is available and reserved for those who are patient with and good enough at the single player missions.
