Aragami

kinda fun in coop

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I can recommend this to people who enjoy stealth for the sake of it, are patient enough to wait for the right times to move or kill, people who love samurais or ninjas, and people who love to challenge themselves. With all those caveats, unfortunately I cannot recommend this game to most players because there isn't enough enemy or environment variety that makes the core gameplay engaging enough. I do hope that the sequel made improvements where I found this first game to be lacking. If you are wondering what types of stealth games I do enjoy & recommend, some of the earliest stealth games on Steam that I played and loved were Mark of the Ninja and Invisible Inc. Here is what you need to know: +The art style and visuals are all nice and fitting. -The story is relatively forgetful unless maybe you love samurais or ninjas +Ability variety is decent though nothing grand, and the game unfortunately leans in on up to ~20 abilities to unlock for gameplay variety. Getting a number of scrolls is the only gating factor for getting an ability. -There are no environmental kill options and little kill variety apart from a death from above, and no ability to drag bodies. Moving bodies becomes irrelevant when using one of the two abilities that makes bodies disappear by different means. ?Environmental stealth only consists of using shadows to regenerate energy, hiding behind objects, and avoiding light that makes it very easy to be seen. ?Difficulty settings appears to change part of the physical path you take in the game, such that you go through easier areas with less enemies. ?Within each chapter/level, there is a checkpoint system. Checkpoint progress is auto saved, but what isn't auto saved are... -Auto save doesn't track which enemies have been killed. If you are in a large chapter with many sprawling sections, which can happen as early as chapter 3, and you want to exit the game, expect all enemies to respawn - Even ones before your checkpoint. This matters if you happen to get to a checkpoint earlier than you expect, but you want to backtrack to a place you didn't explore and want to see if there's a scroll or item, or are going for killing all enemies in a level. -If the core gameplay isn't engaging to you, then there's not much motivation to drive you forward other than getting abilities, self-challenge, or the relatively dull story.