Greetings dear community, video game lovers in my previous post I told you that I was only 1 game away from reaching the 100 games finished, the truth is that during the course of these days I remembered one more game on the list that is South Park The Stick of Truth, which I finished in 2020, I didn't remember it until I saw a little clip of the game on youtube, but to meet the goal I decided to finish one of the games I have in the pending list, playing from chapter 13 to 17 in one day, I finished ninja gaiden sigma 2 for PC.
Here I come to tell you the minor portions of this title that I found at the end, I must begin without a doubt by the most important point for me in this saga of video games, I mean the gameplay, as these titles usually do not have a deep or serious story to discuss or delve deeper into that topic, but when it comes to its mechanics of gameplay enemies difficulty, then we are talking about their points more fuetes.
Mechanics:
If we compare ninja gaiden, with its sequel this is left behind in some sections but let's go by steps, the first thing is the mechanics of hack and slash, we have a much faster Ryu and with more speed than in the previous installment, repeating some skills that remain from the previous game basically as if they were part of the lore, ie Ryu learned by reading a sacred scroll the "swallow flight" a skill that allows you to make attacks at medium height and cut limbs of the enemy, In this sequel you don't learn this skill again since it comes from the beginning, as well as breathing underwater in the first title Ryu gets an oxygen tank to be able to last an indefinite time underwater, in the sequel it seems that the tank is still there because Ryu can stay as long as he wants underwater without any penalty.
The skills with the dragon sword of the Hayabusa clan are the most powerful of the game, because the mechanics of improving the sword to a maximum level with the moon talisman is repeated.
Now Ryu will have a life bar that will decrease in size as we receive damage, the only way to restore our life bar to full is with life orbs that leave the enemies, or using healing branches that can be found in chests or otherwise buying them in the merchant which is still Muramasa, the old man of the first game, this seems to increase the difficulty of the game but it is not, this is because once you kill all the enemies in an area life is restored to reach the maximum level.
That is to say all the all the time that we finish a fight the maximum health will be restored without counting the level of damage penalty, the truth is that it is a mechanic badly applied because it decreases too much the difficulty of the game, which could be the fundamental bases of the gameplay, because increasing the difficulty level will only make the enemies cause more damage and become damage sponges.
Graphics:
Even though the game did not give a huge graphic jump, more than adapting 1080p resolutions I could not notice graphic jump from the next generation, what I could notice is that it was added in dismemberment and the use of blood more than in the previous installment thing that is positive for the purposes of the gameplay.
Content:
The game has 17 chapters with enemies varied scenarios different from each other, but something I missed from the previous game is that the arrows are infinite no explosive versions, weapons are useless next to the dragon sword, making the gameplay very basic with many weapons of adornment, I will justify myself at this point, the game of ninja gaiden sigma 1 is basically necessary to use the sword with large enemies because the dragon sword does little damage while the other weapon did more damage enriching the gameplay.
Difficulty:
The difficulty of the game is basically null the AI of the enemies is depleted, the enemies take too much damage with every hit, making the game a cakewalk, I only got killed during the chapter with Ryu's friend when facing the bird brothers, when I had Ryu it was a walk in the park.
