While you're meant to attack and parry your opponent until their health or stamina is depleted, the latter making them vulnerable to an instakill or knockout attack, the online peculiarities mess with that.įor example, you may have to parry attacks facing away from you or resign yourself to getting hit by enemies who don't even seem to be attacking. However, for those joining someone else's game, there are plenty of issues to contend with.Ĭombat is basically impossible because animations don't work as intended. Hosts are unlikely to be afflicted by anything more irksome than the odd floating body. This is the kind of game that screams co-op, and I'm sure I'm not alone in that assessment.īut while co-op is certainly fun, it doesn't always work. Thankfully, I managed to find someone else who was playing Aragami 2 ahead of its release, and we made a point of trying the co-op as much as possible. There's not a huge amount of variety in Aragami 2's quest structure, and if I wasn't playing through so much of the game with a friend during review, I'd likely have become very bored with it all. Realistically, you either end up with missions that have you going somewhere and interacting with something, missions where you have to kill someone (or someones) somewhere, and missions where you have to rescue someone. The missions themselves aren't all that varied either. Yet that same person will teleport away to a different part of the village after the first conversation, leading to a lot of time spent not stabbing people in a game where stabbing people is the fun bit. I don't loathe this as a story-telling device, but you'll occasionally have to chat to multiple people, or even the same person multiple times, in these sections. But the elder talks your ears off in-between each mission, providing exposition and context about the next mission while (maybe) revealing other bits and bobs about the world. The story of Aragami 2 goes beyond simply saving your village as you'll have to uncover the plots of the evildoers who are targeting you are brewing. Aragami 2 Review: Not Quite the Master Assassin After playing through the final build for this review, though, I'm not quite as excited, and I find myself mostly conflicted about the game.
Still, its shadow based gameplay mechanics are good, and I'd like to see a more fully developed sequel or some other work from the developers.The ability to fight your way through enemies if you failed to be sneaky enough makes for more exciting gameplay than just outright failing, and Aragami 2 starts to almost feel like an immersive sim in all of the ways you can do "things." That's not to mention the abilities you can unlock the further you get.īasically, I felt as though there was a lot of potential in Aragami 2, and that was all before I even had the chance to try out co-op, which is often where games like this shine. As a package, Aragami: Nightfall Edition is a decent, somewhat short stealth game that's held back by bad AI and a general lack of polish. The Nightfall dlc is perhaps a bit less compelling than the main game, although there is still some fun to be had despite the more limited set of powers and less involving story. Aragami gets easier as it goes on, as it doesn't have much to throw at you to combat all the upgrades you get. Some power combinations get you easy kills but feel a little cheap, and I felt really overpowered by the end. Aragami lacks polish in a lot of places, which is probably due to its low budget - performance isn't great, there isn't much enemy variety in terms of design or function, and the draw distance on the shadows which you teleport to is noticeably limited. Gameplay is satisfying for the most part, but the level design is a little uninspired and the enemy AI is quite poor - I could run straight past tons of enemies without them being able to hit me, and I was able to skip a big chunk of a level I was struggling with in the dlc just by running through it. You're given a bunch of cool powers to enact this vengeance.
In Aragami, you play as a being made of shadows seeking revenge for the woman that brought you to life. In Aragami, you play as a being made of shadows seeking revenge for Aragami is a fun stealth game with a dark atmosphere and decent story. Aragami is a fun stealth game with a dark atmosphere and decent story.