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Rengoku II: The Stairway to H.E.A.V.E.N. (PSP) |  | From: Konami
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £15.00
as of 28/7/2010 16:31 PDT details
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New (7) Used (4) from £6.49
Seller: inetvideo-uk
Rating:  1 reviews
Platform: Sony PSP
Genre: fantasy-action-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Sony PSP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6
MPN: 4012927061596
EAN: 4012927061596
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Underrated September 28, 2008
P. R. Hughes
This game was on the receiving end of a furious slagging from pretty much every games magazine and website going, which is the reason that I never even considered picking it up. However, at the silly prices that it's now available for, I didn't mind giving it a go.
And guess what? It's not bad at all.
It's very old-school. You run through very samey-looking rooms in biggish mazes, but with a very clear map so you're never lost. And you fight lots of other robots. It's violent and simple, and the combat isn't too bad at all, if not hugely challenging so far. It reminds me vaguely of a more modern version of something like Xybots, for those old enough to remember that arcade classic. It plays like a good, simple, forgotten PS1 game.
The best thing is that robots you kill often drop goodies that you can equip - better weapons, power packs, shields etc. They all appear on your character and immediately improve/affect your combat ability. So there's lots of juggling of kit and a bit of tactics deciding how your playstyle is going to work.
Essentially it's a sci-fi skinned sort of Baldur's Gate, except viewed from behind your character rather than top-down, and where the combat is a bit more involved than the wade-in-and-slash antics of the typical dungeon-crawl crowd. And it scratches the "let's see if I get a better weapon if I kill this creature" itch very nicely.
Is it technically ground-breaking? No. Is it good fun? Yes.
The plotline is risible and frankly a bit tasteless - the use of real black and white war footage as part of a hokey "story" about soul-searching battle droids stuck in a maze made me raise my eyebrows, so it's easy to see why reviewers got cross with it.
But I've had more fun with it than with a considerable number of better-reviewed games.
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