I got the US version of this Sega game yesterday. Spent about an hour and a half playing it last night. Apart from the rather strange English title (Dororo in Japan, Blood Will Tell in the US). The game is actually rather entertaining.
It?s an action adventure hack-em / shoot-em up, which seems to be heavily story driven. Whether this turns out to be a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but the story seems to be pretty interesting so far.
Combat wise there?s a few nice touches. For starters our samurai styled hero has had some of his body parts altered. He has removable forearms that reveal two swords, a grenade launcher in his knee and a machine gun in his elbow. It all sounds a bit naff, but the plot sort of makes it all plausible.
It features a levelling system and character stats, a 2 player co-op mode (player 2 controls Hyakimarru?s sidekick Dororo), combo systems, special attacks and perhaps rather uniquely for a video game these days the entire prologue is played out in black and white - our hero sees using his mind until he regains his eye from one of the 48 fiends he has to destroy. In fact the game is a good lesson in anatomy as Hyakimarru has to claim back 48 stolen body parts, which effect his performance during the course of the adventure.
It?s an action adventure hack-em / shoot-em up, which seems to be heavily story driven. Whether this turns out to be a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but the story seems to be pretty interesting so far.
Combat wise there?s a few nice touches. For starters our samurai styled hero has had some of his body parts altered. He has removable forearms that reveal two swords, a grenade launcher in his knee and a machine gun in his elbow. It all sounds a bit naff, but the plot sort of makes it all plausible.
It features a levelling system and character stats, a 2 player co-op mode (player 2 controls Hyakimarru?s sidekick Dororo), combo systems, special attacks and perhaps rather uniquely for a video game these days the entire prologue is played out in black and white - our hero sees using his mind until he regains his eye from one of the 48 fiends he has to destroy. In fact the game is a good lesson in anatomy as Hyakimarru has to claim back 48 stolen body parts, which effect his performance during the course of the adventure.
They also didn't seem to credit the replay value much... no mention of unlockables, and again, implying the lack of depth to the combat didn't make it that worth playing through again. Rebuttals? Or not?
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