Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

[Starkiller]

I was worried it would fall short but when the demo delivered I was hooked. The colors are beautiful, the graphics are solid and the overall atmosphere was great. The facial animations are amazing very up to par with, if not better than Heavenly Sword. I would just stop look around in the demo and be stunned by the lighting effects of the visuals going on around me. And soundtrack also sounded very promising. And the demo was full of very tense moments, I was on the edge of my seat the second half.

Before playing the demo it was on my maybe list, I have since preordered it from Amazon getting a $10 game coupon and a code for the soundtrack for free.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Played the demo. Not bad, but I doubt it'll be getting any game of the year mentions unless the story is out of this world.

 

[Fives]

played the demo last night and i think i'll just wait till it goes down in price. pretty good but not 65 bucks good.

 

[SSC_Nerd]

I was surprised how much I actually enjoyed the demo, but alas, Castlevania has my money that day.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

^^Yeah I think if this game was released back in June it would've had a chance to sell much better. With competition like Reach, Castlevania, and Black Ops coming I think most people will be diverting their money to those.

 

[Starkiller]

^^Yeah I think if this game was released back in June it would've had a chance to sell much better. With competition like Reach, Castlevania, and Black Ops coming I think most people will be diverting their money to those.

No thanks. I'll take Enslaved over any of those.

 

[Raikirik]

For me the game looked best during the combat. Animations seem kind of stiff during cinematic scenes.

 

[Starkiller]

If I'm the only person excited about this game too, I'm cool with it. Me, Enslaved and Hydrophobia are going to have a great fall together...alone.

 

[Biojex]

Downloading the demo now. Probably end up playing it tomorrow though. Looking forward to it.

 

[Raikirik]

If I'm the only person excited about this game too, I'm cool with it. Me, Enslaved and Hydrophobia are going to have a great fall together...alone.

I've actually been wanting to play this when I found out it was done by Ninja Theory. I've been waiting for another game from them since they dropped the idea of Heavenly Sword 2.

 

[Starkiller]

This was a game I was watching for a good while, a year ago maybe. It looked very promising with graphics and gameplay. After some recent videos though I was beginning to doubt it...they had these online videos trying to sell it to us and it reminded me of those Haze videos...where the team would start hyping up the gameplay and how awesome the game was, but it ended up not delivering. But after the demo my mind is at ease and I am once again excited about this game, a brand new franchise that looks beautiful and is fun to play.

 

[Biojex]

Just finished playing the demo. I had a lot of fun with it. I definitely want to play more. The game is beautiful, what little combat they offered was fun and the platforming is a blast. If they have more of that set piece platforming (which it looks like they do) then I am sold.

 

[Starkiller]

T-minus 3 days.

This seems to be getting pretty solid and favorable reviews. An 8.0 from IGN as well.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west/critic-reviews?dist=positive

Looks like it's slightly edging out the other big action game this month, Castlevania, with reviewers.

 

[plasmid303]

T-minus 3 days.

This seems to be getting pretty solid and favorable reviews. An 8.0 from IGN as well.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/enslaved-odyssey-to-the-west/critic-reviews?dist=positive

Looks like it's slightly edging out the other big action game this month, Castlevania, with reviewers.

Really? Currently Castlevania holds an 85 aggregate to Enslave's 76.

That's pretty close, but doesn't exactly reflect what you just said.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Out of this and castlevania, I was definately more impressed with this. Beautiful graphics and I was really impressed with the animation and acting. Castlevania seems like a total GOW rip off to me and playing the demo didnt make me think it was anything to write home about. I can't wait fro Friday to pick this up.

 

[Starkiller]

Really? Currently Castlevania holds an 85 aggregate to Enslave's 76.

That's pretty close, but doesn't exactly reflect what you just said.

Enslaved holds an 80 and Castlevania an 87. If you take a look at the random no name "reviews" in the Castlevania score it will make sense.
You can't poll critic scores of no name reviewers like, Gamereactor Sweden, 3DJuegos, Eurogamer Spain, Vandal Online...and expect them not to be fluff.

Let's compare the big three thus far, reputable gaming sites:

Castlevania:
IGN - 75
GameSpot - 75
1 UP - 75

Enslaved:
IGN - 80
GameSpot - 80
1 UP - 83


Like I said it's slightly edging out Castlevania. It's really bugging me people writing off Enslaved because Castlevania, an established series has a game out. When in fact the new IP is the better game. Everyone is automatically being drawn to Caslevania, like a moth to a flame just because of it's namesake.

I think if a gamer sat down and tried the demo of each, most of the time they would come away impressed with Enslaved more so than Castlevania.

 

[plasmid303]

I don't separate smaller, independent review sites from the more popular ones, especially when you take into consideration that some big-name sites like Gamespot have been busted in the past for taking pay-offs from game studios for a good grade.

If I was to make a point here, it's that the scores are so marginally different that both games are within the same league and that a gamer shouldn't choose based on small number differences. They're both wildly different games though both exist in the 'action' hack-n-slash genre. From what I've gathered, play Enslaved if you want an easy experience with a good story or pick up Castlevania if you want challenge and Castlevania-esque settings.

 

[Starkiller]

I don't separate smaller, independent review sites from the more popular ones, especially when you take into consideration that some big-name sites like Gamespot have been busted in the past for taking pay-offs from game studios for a good grade.

If I was to make a point here, it's that the scores are so marginally different that both games are within the same league and that a gamer shouldn't choose based on small number differences. They're both wildly different games though both exist in the 'action' hack-n-slash genre. From what I've gathered, play Enslaved if you want an easy experience with a good story or pick up Castlevania if you want challenge and Castlevania-esque settings.

From what I gather...Play Enslaved if you want a beautiful visualized post-apocolyptic setting in a game in the same vein of Uncharted meets Heavenly Sword.
Play Castlevania if you are okay with a boring blatant, uninspired God of War clone with werewolves and boring gameplay, and cheesy voice acting.

My mind was about to melt out playing the Castlevania demo...I felt like I was playing slightly worse Dante's Inferno.

 

[plasmid303]

I don't see the need to continue this, since you've proved to be unreasonably petulant.

 

[Biojex]

I think the only thing I don't like about this game, Judging from the demo, is the looseness of the movement (walking/running). I'll get used to it I'm sure. Otherwise next week is gonna be an awesome week of games for me. Gonna be picking up this, Dead Rising 2 and Lords of Shadow.