It's all about the combat, really, since between cutscenes that's virtually all there is to do. This is pretty much the extent of the game's co-operative requirements. The game is playable with two players, of course, which means that occasionally both characters will have to stand next to a scenery item - a wagon, a crank, a door - and press X at the same time to move it. Together they chug through combat scenarios that never vary from the reliable old standby of having a bunch of dudes run towards you and then take it in turns swinging their swords in your direction. In one of the game's only clever ideas, allowing your cursed power gauge to run dry results in health damage, although you'd have to be spectacularly bad at the game for that to happen.ĭenz is joined on his generic quest by Esteban Noviembre, a wise-cracking Spaniard so formulaic that he might as well be called Paella los Sombrero. He supposedly hits harder and is more resilient when in his cursed form, but mostly you'll use these powers for more mundane matters like finding weak spots in walls and healing. 'If Cursed Crusade wins any award, it should be Most Long-Winded Game of 2011.' This means that he's able to transform into a sort of 12th century French oni demon, which fills the world with flames, gives him cool horns and. Our hero, Denz de Bayle, is cursed, you see. The story is a hodgepodge of thin medieval cliches, with an unwelcome side order of ludicrous supernatural guff. And so it goes on, tiny croutons of gameplay adrift in a sticky broth of heavy-handed exposition and endless peripheral chatter.Īnd, again, this wouldn't be so bad if Cursed Crusade had a gripping story, compelling characters and satisfying gameplay.

Skip a cutscene and the game just takes you to the start of the next cutscene. Finally, you get to start mashing the attack buttons and kill a handful of enemies. It opens with a lengthy cutscene, which leads into another cutscene which then leads into another.

If Cursed Crusade wins any award, it should be Most Long-Winded Game of 2011. It loves them so much that it can't let ten minutes of gameplay go by without another one. Not in any meaningful gameplay sense, unless Solid Snake has taken to slowly swiping away at mindless enemies in a lacklustre hack and slash style, but it does love cutscenes. The Cursed Crusade is a lot like Metal Gear Solid.

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