KAKU: Ancient Seal

Critic reviews

• HookedGamers

  Samuel Corey · Aug 03, 2024

  7.0

  Unfortunately, the dividing line between what water you can walk in and what water you will drown in is extremely fine and more than a little unfair. At one point I even drowned in water I was confident didn't even come up to Kaku's armpit. It gives the game a rough and rather unfinished appearance whenever anything like this happens, but I will have to admit that I found it quite funny the first couple of times I drowned in what amounted to the shallow end of the community pool.

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• Softpedia

  Cosmin Vasile · Jul 19, 2024

  8.0

  KAKU: Ancient Seal is a decent representative of the third-person action genre that doesn’t find ways to innovate in interesting ways. The core mechanics are decent, and the world is at times impressive. There’s plenty of depth to combat. But the narrative stalls after a few hours and fighting will become repetitive despite the wealth of new moves players can learn. Fans of the open-world action structure will enjoy the four continents and the unique content associated with each. But the entire experience would have benefited from being more focused, with a smaller number of mechanics and more innovation. KAKU: Ancient Seal is a solid game that fails to find a unique hook.

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• God is a Geek

  Chris White · Jul 10, 2024

  8.0

  Kaku: Ancient Seal is a lot of fun with plenty of skills to learn and some well-executed ideas, along with a gorgeous world to explore.

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• The Games Machine

  Nicolò Paschetto · Jul 10, 2024

  6.5

  Come giudichereste i Teletubbies? Ai bambini piccoli fanno impazzire, quindi è uno show imperdibile. O no? Kaku: Ancient Seals mi ha fatto pensare ai pupazzoni colorati: è facile, tecnicamente datato e narrativamente banalotto. La spiegazione più plausibile è che si rivolga a un pubblico molto giovane alle prime armi con gli action adventure. Siccome però ho il sentore che, se state leggendo questo articolo, non fate parte di una schiera di imberbi alla scoperta del mondo videoludico, valutate l’acquisto con una certa attenzione. Non è un gioco brutto, ma le sue prerogative sono spesso un po’ banali.

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• XboxEra

  Genghis Husameddin · Jul 10, 2024

  7.8

  When I think indie, I rarely think “open-world”, but BINGOBELL showed me that’s it’s possible to craft a great and ambitious adventure game without a large body count. KAKU: Ancient Seals is one of the best open-world indie games I’ve ever played and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for their fill of lush environments and challenging dungeoneering.

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• AnaitGames

  Víctor Martínez · Jul 10, 2024

  3.0

  Me temo que no es el caso. Kaku: Ancient Seal es un buen ejemplo de la importancia de la dirección a la hora de enfrentarse a un proyecto; no de la figura del director, sino de la dirección misma: un objetivo común, un sentido, una ideología que sirva de guía y regule la comunicación entre las diferentes partes del desarrollo, que deberían acabar encontrándose en un juego en el que pueda existir un diálogo. Aquí se produce, por contra, una cacofonía difícil de soportar: un ruiderío del que al final es difícil sacar mucho de valor, ni como iteración seria del trabajo de otra gente ni como copia barata y desacomplejada.

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