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Shank |OT| (PC/XBLA/PSN)
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That's it. Shank and I are never going to be friends. I just can't play it anymore. I've stopped playing when I had to fight
. The controls just don't work for me - at all. I press the shoot-button and when Shank is doing a combo there's no way to react to what your enemy is doing. When
is far away I grab my Pistol and shoot her but before the combo even ended
is right in front of me to slice my face. No matter how often I press the L1 + Analog Stick left/right Button to dodge... nothing happens. To me it seems like what you press now is going to happen a second later. No fun in a game where you have to react to fast moving enemies. Maybe some people can deal with this (seems like it) and I'm glad they can enjoy the otherwise really cool game, but the slow-ass controls are annoying as hell. Maybe that's how it's supposed to be, but I don't want this kind of lag in my games. Should have tried the demo a bit more before I bought it, I guess.
Cassandra
Cassandra
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Dark Octave
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I didn't notice the lag until someone here mentioned it.
I assume they were trying to make the character feel heavy like Gears of War. It fits, imo but I've only made it to the second level so far so no controller throwing fits of rage just yet.
I assume they were trying to make the character feel heavy like Gears of War. It fits, imo but I've only made it to the second level so far so no controller throwing fits of rage just yet.
Aika'svyse
Banned
I'm cheap only like paying 400 points for xbla games, but enjoyed the demo so much i'm picking this up. Love the mood, look and story of the game. The moves are so great I doubt i'll get tired performing it. I'm a dpad player and I didnt notice not using it till i just read the post above again.
black_vegeta
Member
snap0212 said:
Does it support an arcade stick?
I just beat this on hard. 
Best piece of advice I could give is, use the Dual Handguns(you start the game with them.) Due to the fact that you get the shotgun fairly early into the game I completely stopped using the DH completely. Little did I know how damn powerful they are, I was practicing the last stage before the final boss on normal because I kept dying at the very end. There's a very annoying part near the end where a rifleman shoots you and you fall off the stage and you die, and in hard you have to start all over again. Anyway, after figuring out how to avoid falling off the stage I decided to stick with the DH almost exclusively for the chapter and it was a breeze. Grapple > Chain the big guys, DH > Everything else. I need to replay some earlier stages with the DH just to see how easy they are now.
Best piece of advice I could give is, use the Dual Handguns(you start the game with them.) Due to the fact that you get the shotgun fairly early into the game I completely stopped using the DH completely. Little did I know how damn powerful they are, I was practicing the last stage before the final boss on normal because I kept dying at the very end. There's a very annoying part near the end where a rifleman shoots you and you fall off the stage and you die, and in hard you have to start all over again. Anyway, after figuring out how to avoid falling off the stage I decided to stick with the DH almost exclusively for the chapter and it was a breeze. Grapple > Chain the big guys, DH > Everything else. I need to replay some earlier stages with the DH just to see how easy they are now.thetrin
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I find the game incredibly frustrating sometimes (no instantaneous cancel for combos, constant hiccups with pounce and auto wall-climb), but it's still fun. It's nowhere as good as I was hoping, but it's definitely fun.
The voice acting is also fucking terrible. Good lord, I expect this kind of crap from a low budget release of a Japanese game, but not an American developed, EA published downloadable.
The voice acting is also fucking terrible. Good lord, I expect this kind of crap from a low budget release of a Japanese game, but not an American developed, EA published downloadable.
Mr. B Natural
Member
Demo impressions:
Like the art style during gameplay but hate the cutscenes. The sound effects and voice acting and awful story make it seem so amateur, which isn't fair to the well put together gameplay visuals.
Combat has too many buttons. Why does a brawler use every button on my 360 controller? Why have a pounce button when you have a jump button?
Combat is fun but I was done with it by the demo level. I've played this game 100 times before and with just as little depth as before. You gotta bring something more than chainsaws and combos to keep my interest. If the game had a story that I could grasp onto, I would have bought it. The combat is ok enough for me to want to play more if I had some kind of motivation. I don't care about me as a character and I don't care about the "bad guys" that i'm beating up... it's unimmersive like a bad action flick rather than immersive like a classic action flick.
The hit detection is so bad that it borders on buggy. This is a real shame, considering it's a 2d fighter that should rely on distance as a stratagem to playing the game properly.
The platforming seems completely unnecessary. Maybe it ramps up or become infused with the gameplay, but the demo didn't really display that.
Like the art style during gameplay but hate the cutscenes. The sound effects and voice acting and awful story make it seem so amateur, which isn't fair to the well put together gameplay visuals.
Combat has too many buttons. Why does a brawler use every button on my 360 controller? Why have a pounce button when you have a jump button?
Combat is fun but I was done with it by the demo level. I've played this game 100 times before and with just as little depth as before. You gotta bring something more than chainsaws and combos to keep my interest. If the game had a story that I could grasp onto, I would have bought it. The combat is ok enough for me to want to play more if I had some kind of motivation. I don't care about me as a character and I don't care about the "bad guys" that i'm beating up... it's unimmersive like a bad action flick rather than immersive like a classic action flick.
The hit detection is so bad that it borders on buggy. This is a real shame, considering it's a 2d fighter that should rely on distance as a stratagem to playing the game properly.
The platforming seems completely unnecessary. Maybe it ramps up or become infused with the gameplay, but the demo didn't really display that.
all artworks unlocked, Too bad there are not more.
6 costumes to unlock and beat the game in hard mode.
Boss guide :
http://www.gamezone.com/videos/item/shank_-_complete_boss_guide/
6 costumes to unlock and beat the game in hard mode.
Boss guide :
http://www.gamezone.com/videos/item/shank_-_complete_boss_guide/
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Finished the game today. Probably one of the poorest imitations of beat em up gameplay I've played in some time. Great visuals, great music, but the missteps in the gameplay design make me glad the game is so short.
All in all, the game was really not very good (and the story was downright retarded. Some cartel thug is dating a preschool teacher? really?)
The platforming ramps up, but it remains completely dumb and unnecessary. The action is fundamentally broken on so many levels that you wonder how anyone let it out of Klei to begin with. A really poor first showing for Klei.
The voice acting is purposely terrible? Well, then they failed there, too. It's not even obviously bad. It's just bad enough that I hate it.
All in all, the game was really not very good (and the story was downright retarded. Some cartel thug is dating a preschool teacher? really?)
Mr. B Natural said:
The platforming ramps up, but it remains completely dumb and unnecessary. The action is fundamentally broken on so many levels that you wonder how anyone let it out of Klei to begin with. A really poor first showing for Klei.
Moobabe said:
The voice acting is purposely terrible? Well, then they failed there, too. It's not even obviously bad. It's just bad enough that I hate it.
Tobiasboon
Member
I'm guessing you will be able to use one of the MadCatz fightpads and then switch the dpad to emulate the left stick. Not sure how the rest of the controls would map out to the 6 face buttons though.snap0212 said:
Sorry for the bumb...
Got the game for $5 thanks to free PS+ subscription and it's really enjoyable so far. Read complaints about the controls, but the character does what I want him to do. Easy to control and fun as hell. Looks great too. can't wait to try the multiplayer after I'm done with the main game.
Got the game for $5 thanks to free PS+ subscription and it's really enjoyable so far. Read complaints about the controls, but the character does what I want him to do. Easy to control and fun as hell. Looks great too. can't wait to try the multiplayer after I'm done with the main game.
MushroomSamba
Member
Labadal said:
Yeah, I don't quite understand the complaints about the controls either. I never had an issue getting my dude to kill other dudes the way I wanted him to. Co-op is pretty enjoyable too...I appreciate that it's a completely separate story and everything, not just singleplayer mode with another player. I thought it was well worth the $15 I originally paid.
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