Thursday, April 05, 2007

Shin Sangoku Musou DS: Fighter's Battle

The expansive battlefields and armies of Shin Sangoku Musou migrate from the Playstation 2 to the confined interiors of the Nintendo DS. SSM: Fighters features the same theme and spirit of the "bigger" Sangoku Musou games but the execution and experience is on a much smaller scale. Prior to the Nintendo DS, Koei's Sangoku Musou has gone portable before on the PSP which was a fairly faithful rendition of the PS2 original. The NDS version can't match the technical aspects of the PSP or PS2 games and sacrifices were made to scale the game downwards. For one, the action is throttled down into a very straightforward and rigid hack fest with the occasional special attack thrown in to mix up the action. Collecting coins from fallen enemy soldiers gives players the currency to ignite «more»

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