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Every once in a while a title is developed that makes you hate gaming, that fills you with rage, that winds you up so much that you wish you didn't quit smoking.

Welcome to Afro Samurai.

Now, i'm not going to pump the title into wikipedia to find out about the developers or the Animé from which it was developed. Why? because this game is dire, and it does not justify the 30 seconds of research time.

I really don't want to rant, so I will apologise now.

Sorry.

How about a hack and slash with the worst deflect/parry system that borders on non-existent, the only targeting system is a camera worse then Force Unleashed and Assassin's Creed that is also inverted on the X axis that cannot be changed, no in game menu, subtitles that come on half the time, a "compass" (a spawning charater voiced by Sam L Jackson) that you have to activate and when it does sometimes states "work this shit out for yourself" and is often hidden from sight, incoming enemy attacks always take precedence, what must be the most blunt samurai sword known to man because it takes around 10 slashes to kill a grunt, a totally glitched achievement system, it has the most pathetic platform acrobatic mechanics I've ever experienced...

and finally..

a character that is as three dimensional as a bunch of corporate comicbook bosses gathered around a large table in a conference coming up with ideas on for a new hero. I can imagine it as:

1 "we need a new samurai, something different"
2 "make him black"
1 "yeah, and what black stereotypes can we use?"
3 "some black people have afros"
2 "and some like hip hop"
1 "cha-ching!"

Not to mention the game has no story what-so-ever, it's just a collection of what seem to be episodes stringed together in a random order. There's a boss who has a flame thrower... from what I gather this is supposed to be feudal Japan.

His cigar never goes out.

It says something about a game when you have to get Samuel L Jackson to do voice acting to make the title even the most remote bit entertaining.