Words can hardly describe how much fun this game is.
User Rating: 9 | Otogi: Hyakki Toubatsu Emaki XBOX
Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors is maybe one of the best third-person sword action game I have played in a while. I honestly didn't play the first one because I really didn't think it will get a chance to impress me, but I think I'm wrong because Otogi 2 impressed me big time. The game is really much fun the way it's done. The whole game is done to give you the Japanese fighting style. Sometimes while I'm playing the game I think I'm playing Ninja Gaiden. Both games are different yet similar. They similar by the way the each game keep you nailed to your chair wanting to play more and more. The difference is that each game has different combo attacks, levels and game-play. The story of Otogi 2 is that demons and evil spirits have besieged Japan, and the swordsman Raikoh is the only person that has the powers to stop them. But what makes the game exciting is you wont only play as Raikoh you'll get the chance to play as other warriors and each one of these warriors got a unique and nice fighting style. The warriors are priestess Seimei which is the master of her four generals. Kintoki is one of these generals he is a big strong guy with his axe as a weapon. In addition to his size and his powerful axe he can easily pick these demons and throw them around. Tsuna is this wolf that fights as fast as lightning. Suetake is a sorcerer he is a tree trunk. Last but not least is scythe-wielding the girl with the freezing powers. Each general has his or her own special powers and abilities. You'll get the chance to play as each one of these generals. You may as anyone played that game to like a character more then the others because of their abilities and you'll want to play with that character most of the time. The game prevent from doing that. See each character you choose and play the selected level with, after you beat the level the character will be un-selectable. The bright side for that?t will give you the chance to play with each character good amount of time to get used to using them and each character powers will increase to be more helpful in other levels which will make each character suited for a level more than the other characters. Each of the missions has a short brief will tell you what is your mission and what you have to do. Plus you can look through the monsters or the demons you will be killing. Each mission has its own cut-senses and each cut-sense will change depending of the character you pick sweet ha? I didn't play the first one so I'm not sure about how the game-play is. But in Otogi 2 your characters are strong that by a slash from any of their weapons they will destroy anything and I mean anything. Walls, bridges, houses, ships, and anything you can see in the game. Controlling the characters isn't really hard it wont take you time to know how to make light attacks or heavy ones or to make combos by both light and heavy attacks. The only thing I didn't like in Otogi 2 is the camera. The camera is a really pain in the ass. You have to play through the game and adjusting the camera manually which will be really hard to be when you are fighting ten or more monsters at once. Plus the "lock-on" button isn't really that helpful you might be good without even using it. Plus the health for each character is like dynamite meter that keeps burning so you have to finish the level fast or you'll start to hear the heart beat of your character gets louder and louder and at the end he or she will die. As we all know good game needs good music to attract you into it. The game's music is of course a music based on Japanese theme music. The music give you the feeling of a cool clam game while it's really not. You got your character trying to kill monsters and beat the level and destroying everything he or she can see in front of him but yet the music gives you the clam feeling. Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors is a really fun game to play and if you liked the first one you will love the second one. The characters and the new levels makes the game fun each time you play it and you wouldn't want to pause the game you want to play through it and finish it fast. 
