Another part of the game utilizes lock-on shooter sections a la Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon. There’s also a good section of the game that deals in serviceable 3D-brawler action in completely locked off arena areas. The gameplay of Asura’s Wrath always boils down to pressing button prompts for the game’s innumerable QTE strings. I always wanted to see how the story turned out despite of what little there was and of course what incredible feat of raging power Asura would do next.

I was completely hooked by the games delivery. At the end of each chapter there’s even a preview teaser for the next episode of Asura’s Wrath. Each chapter of the game plays out entirely like an anime episode previously on, lots of action, intermission frames in the middle of the episode and a great cliffhanger that makes you want to play more. The thing that really sells these cutscenes is the incredible quality and scale of them.The game is always showing that Asura and the other demi-gods are powerful enough to effect the world on a planetary-or in most cases galactic scale.

After which you then immediately fight another demi-god using only your legs, because all of your six-arms were destroyed in the pervious fight-and that’s only in the first third part of the game. Among the few things you do early on in the game, you will have already defeated a gigantic boss twice the size the planet who crushes you with a single finger. At the beginning of the game Asura fights off thousands of guards despite being run though with a dozen spears. Story originality aside, the difference is that Kratos uses most of his rage to yell and Asura just shut’s people up so he can pull of the craziest feats because he is a seemingly undefeatable demi-god. Obviously Asura is quite ticked and his rage fuels his return and revenge killing the other demi-gods-stop me if played God of War already. If that was not enough to make angry they’ve also killed his wife and taken his daughter away as some super weapon. The story is about Asura, a deity derived from some twisted Buddhist and Hindu origins, who is branded as a traitor and murder of the Emperor by his other seven-demigod compadres.

Asura wrath gameplay