Well, that' it for Shinobido. Did a couple of enjoyable standard missions and had fun but then tried another general assassination mission and it looks like you can't get more than a few metres without being spotted. I think you are supposed to do that level when you have the ability to use disguises or something but I only know about that feature by glancing over a guide to work out some control stuff early on.
So after a few attempts at that I tried another mission that was populated by the Savage enemies. They seem to have a random chance to turn around and choose patrol routes which means through no fault of your own you can be spotted and a whole group of enemies swarm you and force you into the terrible combat.
The worst part is that there's no retry in the pause menu. You have to quit the mission (with a small cutscene), then in the hub menu move over one menu, go to end game, confirm, choose not to save, return to the main menu then load your game. You have to do this because missions may or may not disappear when you quit or fail them.
Too frustrating to persevere with.
Anyway, my favourite game I played at Christmas a few years ago was SOS Final Escape (Disaster Report (Zettai Zetsumei Toshi)) but I played it through a terrible PS2 to HDMI converter. So I'm downloading and burning the undubs of that and Raw Danger that removes the dub and replaces it with Japanese voices and in Raw Danger, switches the main menu art and in game art (newspapers, shop signs etc) with the original Japanese art, reinstates some missing content and gives people and places their original Japanese names to play soon.
So after a few attempts at that I tried another mission that was populated by the Savage enemies. They seem to have a random chance to turn around and choose patrol routes which means through no fault of your own you can be spotted and a whole group of enemies swarm you and force you into the terrible combat.
The worst part is that there's no retry in the pause menu. You have to quit the mission (with a small cutscene), then in the hub menu move over one menu, go to end game, confirm, choose not to save, return to the main menu then load your game. You have to do this because missions may or may not disappear when you quit or fail them.
Too frustrating to persevere with.
Anyway, my favourite game I played at Christmas a few years ago was SOS Final Escape (Disaster Report (Zettai Zetsumei Toshi)) but I played it through a terrible PS2 to HDMI converter. So I'm downloading and burning the undubs of that and Raw Danger that removes the dub and replaces it with Japanese voices and in Raw Danger, switches the main menu art and in game art (newspapers, shop signs etc) with the original Japanese art, reinstates some missing content and gives people and places their original Japanese names to play soon.
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