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Review of Samurai Lords Katana

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Games I am looking forward to

May 8th 2009 05:23

Well...sadly I have nothing as far as reviews or previews or any of that fun stuff so I give you....

GAMES THE WOLVES ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING

The Sims 3-For us here at the den, this is no joke, June 2nd can't come soon enough! I got my name on the exchange already registered, my collector's edition already preordered, and my traits already picked out!
The Sims 3 Offical Site

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2-To be released sometime in the Fall of this year the Sequel to Marvel Ultimate Alliance takes place during the "Cival War" Story arch...leaving the only question to be "What side are you on?"

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Offical Site

To be honest...that's all I can really think of right now, I'm sure there are others that I just haven't thought of....but I guess that's it for now.

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Update to Last Night's Review

April 13th 2009 05:37

Now, really, how many reviewers would do what I am about to do...

Since my review last night I've been playing a little Samurai Warriors: Katana...and came to a slight realization.

As it turned out it was inexperience with the game that caused me to write the section about the secret passages, the symbols that had marked them were in areas as events had occurred so I thought the symbols were for the events, not to mark the passages.

My bad...

As I said though, great game, 4 wolves out of five...

Just thought you all should know that.

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Review of Samurai Lords Katana

April 12th 2009 02:23

Yep, the Wolf's Den is here and do we have a review for you, time to dust off your Wii Mote, bone up on your Bushido, and prep your (non internet site) banner. Why....because...

THE WOLF'S DEN REVIEWS

SAMURAI WARRIORS: KATANA
FOR THE WII

Take the Samurai Warriors games we have been playing on the PS...and the PS2...throw in a little Lethal Enforcers...sprinkle with a dash of Track and Field and throw in to a blender and what do you have...you would think a mess...surpisingly no, you would have Samurai Warriors: Kantana. Which is a suprisingly good game...all things considered.

There are various modes of play. In Musou you find yourself as a nameless young warrior, who, depending on the story arch you are playing, is using a diffrent means to find usually, fame, glory, and of course, fortune, the stories are well done, the plots are well writen, and, I don't know about my fellow reviewers, but I found the voice acting to be near top notch.

In Trials Mode, once you have gotten through a certain amount of Musou mode, will allow you to take on various...well, Trials for bragging rights and gold. Examples of such trials are "Defeat 3 Sky Ninjas in 30 seconds" or "Avoid being hit for 15 seconds".

Versus Mode could not be tested due to not having a second player...the descript suggests a head to head battle though, and you can check with Records your top scores for each mode (And each story arch in Musou Mode). The Trials are well done, and some are all but hair pullingly hard, and the record list is easy to manage and will show you everything you need to know with ease.

Sadly all is not well in the land of the Samurai Warriors. Several control issues plague this game. I cannot count the times I have ordered a block only for the block to go up a split second after the command was given...just enough time for the attack I was trying to block to get through. In addition some segments require you to "run" by pumping the Wiimote and 'chuck...which I also had problems getting to respond...and don't get me started on the horse. However, other than the horse, the jogging and the occasional block issue the controls are tight and responsive. You truly will feel like the "young warrior" as with a swing of your mighty sword or a pull of the trigger...I mean Wiimote or the push of the B button...I mean...well, it's kinda both accually...enemy soilders fall at your feet

Not just the controls are issues as well, sometimes the Level Design or even the bosses are the problem. One Mission required me to get through a castle in a certain time limit, I was told by an NPC that the castle had secret passageways, no notes to my mini-map or on the game as to where the passages were, or how to access them, just, there are secret passages in the castle...failed the mission twice trying to find the passages. I am not asking to be handed the missions, far from it, but in an rl castle with passages, if you were told about them, odds are you would be told what to look for to find them...and once you had, how to access them.

Some of the bosses were also...well, a little cheap, cheating...eh, maybe with one exception I wouldn't say that, but one boss had an attack which stunned me and made me unable to block or attack...while she lit me up with a 5 hit combo.

Still Komei...a very good effort for your first try in to this kind of game, just a few minor things to work on if you plan a Sequel...but a very good first shot...Alert the Pack, the Samurai Warriors are coming...and I'm sending 4 Wolves after them!

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So, is the Den still operational or not?

February 22nd 2009 07:47

In a word yes.

The reason I have not been blogging recently is simple, due to a hectic schedule I have not really been renting games as much as I would like to and therefore I really don't have anything major to report about in gaming

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So, what happened to the Weekly Posts?

December 2nd 2008 18:30

The last post I said I was going to do weekly posts from here on out, that was about 3 weeks ago...so a lot of you are wondeing what happened?

The week following my last post I rented Smackdown VS. Raw 2009 for the Wii and figured that you gous wouldn't mind the missed week due to me doing research for a review

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And now for the main event: The Wolf's Den Reviews TNA iMPACT!

November 6th 2008 07:38

Okay, yeah, I know it's been over a month so I'm going to try to do something new here...I am setting a day, Wednesday or Thursday (probably write on Wednesday for a Thursday publishing), which will be the day I post around here, the way I used to do it was I would watch the hit counter and wait till it dipped below 100 but that doesn't seem to be working so..

anyway...we got a game to review, not a great one but

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Time for the Undercard: The Wolf's Den Reviews Fire Pro Wrestling Returns

September 23rd 2008 15:34

Okay folks, we are FINALLY going to get to some reviews around here and boy do I have a double dose of ring action for you...Our undercard is going to be Fire Pro Wrestling Returns and for our main event we have...for the PS2 TNA: Impact! And don't worry, this card won't suck as bad as most of the other wrestling cards out there (WWE Raw this week, I'm looking right at you!)

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We failed...and yet from the ashes of EA Land...arises Tirnua

August 16th 2008 08:03

Yeah folks, sadly the crew I mentioned a LONG time ago failed to stop the closing down of EA Land (AKA The Sims Online)

HOWEVER, a good chunk of the devolpmental Team from EAL seems to have gone to work on a similar MMO Project known as Tirnua (Which according to Wikipedia, is Greek for "New World") It seems very similar to EAL, and should be very intresting

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Okay so maybe it will be the first GAME Review (Review of The Sims 2 Store)

July 13th 2008 22:45

Okay first off, a quick blog recomendation, I hate to say that there are other great blogs out there (you may go read them and then I'd be lonely

). But I got to give a shout out to the writer of The Married Gamer. In between revies of the LATEST games (unlike around here where if we get to a review it will most likely be older games) he talks about the trial and tribulations of being a gamer with a wife and kids, check out his posts called "Games it took me over a year to finish" where he talks about (as the post is titled) games that, due to his married life, have taken him over one year to get to the ending to. You won't be disapointed.

Okay, on to the review

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The Den gets a Wii

July 9th 2008 06:14

That's right all you people out there still fighting the mobs to get your hands on Nintendo's latest console, you no longer have to worry about a Wolf taking you out and running off with it.

The Den has gone current gen...The Wolves are too busy playing Wii Sports to care about your rush for the console

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