I finished the story in
Toukiden Kiwami. It's a good game, but it's definitely the "worse" one out of all the hunting games I've played on Vita.
The gameplay is great. I only played with the sickle and chain, but it was a lot of fun. Gotta say I'm not a fan of the whole "you have to take their shield down before tou can do any actual damage", it made going solo a pain in the ass.
The story of vanilla is fairly standard, I guess, and the Kiwami part was interesting, but I think their big revelations kinda fell flat thanks to all the padding. I think the pacing was messed up, or at the very least it felt like I kept fighting the same oni over and over again and it definitely took away from my enjoyment of the story.
About the variety of big oni... Idk, I looked through the enemy list of Soul Sacrifice and God Eater (not counting DLC) and it seems as though they had the same amount of variety. I blame the crappy distribution of oni in the main story.
The drop rate is absolute trash and it's the main reason why I didn't even try to go for the platinum (worth noting that I got the plat for Soul Sacrifice, Soul Sacrifice Delta, Freedom Wars and God Eater 2). If you want to go for the platinum, then you'll have to do all the quests and get all of the weapons of a single type. Many quests require you to give away rare items that you also need to make the weapon, so you'll have to grind. There's also the option to send the secondary team, but most of the time they'll bring you trash (even if the leader supposedly specializes in whatever area you need), so the only option is to do it by yourself. The worst offender of this is the fucking aurongrinder. You need three of a rare drop of this fucking ultra rare monster that only appears once in the story to introduce the emergency missions and the only other way is to do infinite missions (which means you have to beat a bunch of oni before you get the chance to fight it).
I know that was a lot of complaining from my part, but I'd be down to try the sequel...
If only they hadn't decided to make it open world.
And now Im playing
Demon Gaze. Remember how I was mad because Sol kept kicking my ass and I dropped the game??? Well, now that I beat Stranger of Sword City, I decided to give it a try again... And the first two times went exactly the same as one year ago lol
And then I started to pay attention and noticed the fucker kept erasing my buffs. At first I thought the force guard skill lasted through all the fight no matter what, until I decided to look at the top right and, to my surprise, IT SHOWS YOU WHICH BUFFS YOU CURRENTLY HAVE!!! After that, I only had to pay attention to keep that skill up and beat him without much trouble.
Now I'm gonna start the post game stuff.
Now that you know this, it opens a lot of different options. You could try amazon japan or any japanese store that ships to the US.
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