![]() But after you clear a room of bad guys, the game loses some of its focus. The simplicity and the speed of the combat will keep your attention during fights, especially when the game starts throwing a dozen enemies at you at a time. Though the game can prove a bit challenging near the end, it takes its sweet time ramping up the difficulty, which provides you with plenty of soft enemies and health pickups. SEVEN SAMURAI ANIME LANDSCAPE FULLFurthermore, the places you'll be fighting in usually provide enough room to run around until your meter is full again. However, even if you don't bother learning the timing on the Just attacks, the recharge-time on your two-sword meter is pretty brief. Once you master the Just Attacks, you can pretty much go the length of an entire fight without having to put away your second sword. You can increase your time in two-sword mode by performing a "Just" move, which is a timing-based move where you either block or dodge an attack right when it's about to happen, or you press exactly toward an enemy as you issue an attack. After 20 or 30 seconds, it'll run out, thus leaving Natoe with a single sword again. As soon as you unsheathe the second sword, a meter will start depleting. You also have the option of tapping L1 and R1 at the same time, which will cause Natoe to unsheathe his second sword, which nearly doubles the speed and reach of his attacks. Natoe has but a single attack button, which can-and certainly will-be tapped repeatedly to create multihit combos. This is a pure beat-'em-up, with quick pacing and button mashing-friendly controls. With the liberties 20XX takes with the Seven Samurai structure, the game easily sets up a scene where you, as Natoe (one of the seven titular samurai), fight your way through room after room of robots of varying shapes and sizes. Eventually, the peripheral nonsense that the makers of 20XX have wedged in virtually eclipses the core narrative, thus bringing to question why Sammy bothered with the Seven Samurai name in the first place. ![]() Because of the primordial nature of the story, this could've potentially been a pretty smooth transition, but instead of leaving Kurosawa's humble story be, Seven Samurai 20XX injects it with all sorts of anime-inspired melodrama, complete with the cocky young hero with a troubled past and the demure young girl with incredible secret powers. At its core, Seven Samurai 20XX is basically about the same thing, though the setting's been changed from Feudal Japan to a bleak futuristic landscape, and the bands of thieves have been replaced by endless hordes of genocidal robots. The narrative behind Kurosawa's original Seven Samurai is a simple but elegant story about a group of samurai who take on the task of defending a small, incredibly poor village from a group of marauding raiders. ![]()
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