Review: Akai Katana I spent $80 on a double-pack of Cave’s Muchi Muchi Pork and Pink Sweets when I visited Tokyo last fall.
This is the mode I spent the most time with because the constant tension-and-release of these abilities adds so much to the game.Many Cave games covered the same ground, such as the similarly industrial world of A hallmark of excellence. Akai Katana Review. Share on Facebook. STAFF Producer: Kenichi Takano Director: Tsuneki Ykeda Programmers: Tsuneki Ykeda, S. Yagawa, Daisuke Koizumi, Toshiriro Sera, Takashi Ishimura, Yuji Inoue Chief Designer: Hideki Nomura Designers: Hiroyuhi Tanaka, Takeharu Isogai, Toshiyuki Kuroiwa, Akira Wakabayashi Character Design: Mushimaro Voice Cast (Kenyu Office): … Price: £14.99 + Free shipping with Amazon Prime. Akai Katana › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. 5 star: 61%: 4 star: 23%: 3 star: 8%: 2 star 2 star (0%) 0%: 1 star: 8%: Akai Katana. When you cancel out of spirit form, these will go flying across the screen giving you giant gold medals you need to race to collect. 'Akai Katana' Review - Victory Is Up To You Jason Cipriano 05/23/2012. There actually is a story to Akai Katana, though it’s hopelessly arcane for a game about dodging a lot and shooting everything that moves. If there is one genre of games that this generation of consoles has not been kind to it's the shoot-'em up. Player Reviews. 3.6 out of 5 stars. Blame it on skill levels going down, or tastes changing where Western gamers want see those bullets coming right at their face, rather than some abstract ship on the left/bottom side of the screen, but the days when intense shooters requiring warp-speed neural transmission were sitting at the top of the heap have long passed. Akai Katana review. It has minor performance issues, but otherwise delivers in all the ways that matter, with an added layer of complexity thanks to the firing modes and guardian companion mechanics. Tweet on Twitter. Reviewed on: X360; Akai Katana Shin is a well-crafted dose of over-the-top bullet-hell action. It’s absolutely insane when you pull it off. 3.6 out of 5 stars. The music is similarly hyper-kinetic, threatening to burst a vein in its own figurative forehead with how fast-paced and excitable it gets, but again, this is an unapologetic, purely Japanese shmup and fans of the genre aren’t getting anything here they’re not already familiar with. Cave Interactive is one of the few developers out there still creating new love letters in the genre for fans, and This adds an extra layer of strategy to the usual bullet hell proceedings, and gives the game some surprising depth. It doesn’t have to.The Shmup is a genre with pretty well-defined boundaries. It doesn’t really do much for owners with a multi-surround speaker set up, but then it’s a shmup. May 17, 2012 5:53am.