Asura's Wrath Review

Okay you guys i promised a review of this game and here is my review of Asura's Wrath.  First for those who don't know about the story of it here's a quick over view of the story of Asura's Wrath as said on The IGN Website.  Now here's my opinion of the game. This game is a Japanese Interactive Anime Series that can be played on the 360 or PS3, I'm not kidding when I say that because there are 18+ Episodes in which you play through and they treat it like an Anime series because after you finish an episode they give a preview of the next "episode" that you have to play through and then there are DLC episodes included.  This game is made by the team of Capcom and Cyber Connect 2 so if you are a fan of either or both companies than you know this game should be good and it actually is a fun, over the top, funny, and addicting adventure/fighting/rail shooter Game.  The Gameplay and feel is that of a Dragonball Z Style type game in which there are moments in the game where Asura just Screams and powers up like Gohan when he was fighting Cell or Goku when he was fighting Frieza.  In this game Asura has two bars, one of them is his health bar and the other one is his Burst Bar in which when you fill that by fighting, and when the burst bar gets full, Asura goes into Berserker Mode.  Also there are cinematic scenes that prompt the player to press a button to raise Asura's Burst Bar.  The Story within Asura's Wrath is like that of God of War and what I mean by that is that Asura is betrayed by his fellow Gods, his wife is murdered, his daughter is kidnapped and Asura himself is banished and sent to Hell but he get's out and goes on to Kick some Deity Ass.  The Graphics on this game is marvelous, gorgeous, and kind of reminds me of Street Fighter IV.

Dislikes:

Some of the things i do not like about this game is that there is no change in difficulty when facing Boss's.  It doesn't matter whether you are playing on Easy or Hard there are going to be moments where a vein or two will be popping out of your forehead because of Anger with the indifference between difficulties.  Another Thing i do not like is the fact that this game in a way becomes repetitive in gameplay and there are moments where i felt like i was going through the motions with the game.  Dislike Number 3 is that there are certain moments of the game where because of certain fights, Asura Loses his arms and then in the next episode he has regained his arms.  Where did he get new arms?  Who gave him new arms? Dislike Number 4 is that there is no Customization with this game.  I for one believe that there should be customization for games such as this

And Now for the Review of the DLC:

This DLC is Crazy, and full of Dragon Punches, Hadukens, Hurricane Kicks, and it is full of Wrath and Rage.  If you don't get those clues let me just come out with it. YOU FIGHT RYU/ EVIL RYU AND THEN YOU FIGHT AKUMA/ONI ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If you didn't have any reason to get this game get it for that reason.  The first time you fight Ryu and Akuma it is in the style of Super Street Fighter IV and then the second fight is in the style of Asura's Wrath.  Then when both Ryu and Akuma transform into their second forms ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall:

Over all I enjoy this game, it is a short game as i beat it in two days (that's including the DLC just as well), it was repetitive at moments but i still enjoyed it very much but the replay value of this game is very low.  I bought it at Gamestop for 35 Bucks used and it's 40 Bucks brand new so i would say if you have Gamefly then go get this game.  Even though i bought it, if i had gamefly i would prefer to rent it but i give this game a 8.5 out of 10 and I give it a Rent It Rating just as well