GAMES 11: Asura’s Wrath Hands-On
September 23rd, 2011 by Maitham
This is the first game I jumped over 3 nerds to try. Asura’s Wrath is an over-the-top action game developed in collaboration between CyberConnect2 and Capcom. It tells the story of Asura, once a revered deity, he was betrayed by his fellow gods and stripped of all his powers and now vengeance begins. I was really excited to try this Japanese craziness.
The demo I played was basically a huge boss fight. You are fighting a God 100 times your size. After a cutscene, Asura starts hurling towards the boss and the game becomes a rail shooter with fireballs thrown at marked ares on the god as you are dodging projectiles. Once you are close to the boss, the game switches to a series of quick time events (QTEs) and if executed successfully you move to another sequence of shooting but this time in mid-air. Afterwards, The god calls down a huge flying ship that you have to take down, and once you do, you go into an awesome fighting scene. Both you and the boss are be running side by side firing fireballs and missiles at each other in a side-scrolling mode. The amount of stuff happening in the screen is tremendous! Once you finish the next QTE sequence, the 1000 ton god knocks you to the ground and butt-stomps you. Asura is not pleased with this! Mashing buttons in anger will make Asura grow 4 extra limbs and with a series of punching by flaming limbs, Asura sends the god out of earth and into space. Now the god is not happy, so he summons one of the 7 deities to destroy you. And of course keeping up with the game’s over-the-top ridiculousness, the deity is about 5 times the size of the earth!! Yes indeed! The huge deity is floating in space surrounding earth and promises Asura’s death. With one holy finger going through earth’s atmosphere like a flaming meteor, Asura is pretty much screwed if this was normal game. But this is Asura’s Wrath of course, so what happens? Why asura will smash the huge deity’s finger with his 6punching limbs and brings the deity’s end!
I was really impressed with the game. I’m a big fun of quirky games and gigantic boss fights. The graphics and music are not the best in this game but the action in the cut scenes are really beyond anything I’ve ever seen. The gameplay is fun but I can see myself getting bored with it if they did not throw in other mechanics. To be fair, I only played a boss fight so there must be some other parts in the game I haven’t tried. Controls are not as tight as I hoped they’d be, moving the curser during the shooting part feels too sensitive. I hope the game will be more polish when released and I’m looking forward for it.
Release: Early 2012
