"Shadow Samurai 3" has been released for more than half a month, with the bug fix and update patches installed, the game's evaluation is basically stable, the current reputation of the game is mixed, as many as 1506 reviews only 60% of the praise, what is the factor that caused the player's old friend "Wang Luo" to become such a situation, let's take a look at it.
First of all, Xiaobian must first take care of the title of "3A", 3A games refer to high cost, high quality, high volume of stand-alone games, of course, "high cost, high quality, high volume" is just a general direction, for players may be more intuitive experience is the price of the game. Returning to the game itself, Shadow Samurai 3 inherits the first two titles of the series in terms of overall style, and the combination of East Asian cultural elements and near-future firearms, both soft and rigid, traditional and modern, is impressive. As a veteran fps, the game's game design concept of putting the thrill first is that players are either opening the peerless or on the way to the unparalleled.
Many players have compared the "Shadow Samurai" series to the Eastern "DOOM", which is not unreasonable in the editor's view. The violent execution animation is bloody and exciting, and the sci-fi-inspired near-future guns shoot out a tidal wave of bullets to destroy all kinds of monsters in the yokai image of toei legend. Even the plot is flawless with "DOOM", the story has never been the strength of this type of game, it just provides a reason for the player to go to where to kill, all the way is nothing more than fighting and killing and running to the living creatures, if according to this analysis, then "Shadow Samurai 3" should not receive such a low evaluation Ah, then what is the problem?
The first is the failed game innovation, "Shadow Samurai 3" adopts a 1-generation chapter-style linear level, which means that the "delegate board" mode in the 2nd generation is completely bid farewell, the player can not choose to play the level, there is no rouglike equipment element, and the game's play life is greatly reduced. And the types of monsters in the game are pitiful, in the face of the number of about 10 kinds of monsters, it is difficult for players to feel the pleasure of the past, and the boss in the game is extremely simple, and the only two games are too few for the player to be enjoyable.
The problem caused by the game mechanics is only 30%, the most important problem is the lack of game content, according to statistics, in the difficulty of opening Hardmode, the "Shadow Samurai 3" process is only 6-8 hours, and the short game length is slightly "simple" system, it is really difficult to support the game's up to 188 AAA price.
If the refreshing killing has brought fans, then the small size and "simple" system of the 3rd generation also locked the upper limit of the game, and the 6-hour game flow made people feel that the end game had not yet been exhausted. In the editor's opinion, if you still want to save word of mouth, then at least you should add some hidden elements on the basis of this volume, or have new content in the second week. Otherwise, like steam players who fill out bad reviews, the game time will stay within 6-8 hours. Empty 3A selling price but no 3A quality and content, who will give you praise.