Arrest of a stone Buddha was way too repetitive for me. I didn’t get into the story, and the gameplay was overall frustrating. One thing I did enjoy was the retro graphics and the ambient soundtrack. If you want to checkout Arrest of a stone Buddha, I recommend waiting on a sale.
Arrest of a stone Buddha
yeo · Feb 27, 2020
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As a professional killer you'll live through November 1976 alternating non-stop shoot'em up action with a downtempo mundane life. You're fast and lucky enough so you don't plan your actions too far. You kill with one shot and you never miss. When you're run out of ammo you just throw a gun away. You can disarm any enemy and use any weapon. And when it's time to get out you just use a vehicle nearby.
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- All in all, those looking for something light on exposition and direction but heavy on senseless violence and lonely wandering may find a worthwhile experience here. It bears repeating, though, that this is a much more dour and less varied title than its predecessor The friends of Ringo Ishikawa.
- Arrest of a Stone Buddha tries to provide players with moments of reflection in between bouts of ultraviolent gunplay, but its actual gameplay loop is so clunky and frustrating that the only thing you’ll want to think once a level is over is “who the hell designed that level”. It could have been a moderately more enjoyable title if the developers had spent more time on the gameplay department, but then again, there are other much better games out there with the same loop and message. You’d be better just playing them instead.
- 4.0In all, Arrest of a Stone Buddha is a superficial and empty video game. Despite having some novelty in its setting and ideas, there is simply no semblance of coherent game structure or practical gameplay mechanics. It almost feels like a concept to what could have potentially been a very cool 2D action game, but as it stands Arrest of a Stone Buddha is a pretty meaningless one; one that has been poorly ported and presented on Xbox.
- 7.0Arrest of a Stone Buddha es más difícil de disfrutar que su anterior obra, pero de alguna manera, como el contrapunto de violencia y tranquilidad propia al juego, tiene cierto sentido. Un título que no aspira a ser un éxito comercial, sino de contar algo, de expresar una idea o una vivencia, como ya le pasó en el anterior título. Por ello es conveniente acercarse a él sabiendo que es posible que no nos otorgue una recompensa fácil
- 5.0Našťastie, hra funguje audiovizuálne, aby to vytiahla aspoň na ten priemer. Pixelart štýl jej pristane, veľmi pekne vykresľuje Paríž a prekvapivo pekné sú v ňom aj niektoré animácie. Hudba je veľmi dobrá, skvele dotvára atmosféru, aj žánrovo tu perfektne sadne a hlavne sa dobre počúva. No to nestačí.
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