I got a PlayStation 2 game for Christmas called Drakengard by Square Enix. It’s is the most hacking-est, slashing-est game I’ve ever played. I thought I was getting pretty far, a few levels in, because my sword has a pretty large blast radius. Yes, I said blast radius. In the great anime tradition, this game give range to the weapon as if it were somehow explosive. I like that sort of thing because it just raises the scale of the game. By scale I just mean that If you fought baddies one at a time in the old side-scrollers, in Drakengard you’re fighting them five and ten at a time.
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