It Had a little... but no where near enough... its a shame they messed this up like this...

User Rating: 4.2 | Rengoku: The Tower of Purgatory PSP
This game may be one of the worst games made for the PSP. This game has nearly nothing going for it.

The GamePlay is very limited. The majority of the battles will take one of two forms, either ranging, or melee'ng. The ranged is completly annoying and hardly worth your time, becuase you weapon can run out of ammo realy fast! Later heavy guns can even run out in 10 shots, and you'll miss most of the shots when they can help you. But of course, ranging can be the quickest way to win. I myself managed to destroy about 6 of the 7 levels just by using a few different heavy guns. It is depressing how the game can mess up that simple idea. Then there is the Melee attacking. This means you have to get close to the enemy and attack, and the game makes this extremely difficult at times. While you try to get close enough and take a shot, the enemy can move out of the way, you'll find yourself trying to charge the enemy and stay with him more often than trying to attack him. If you manage to get close enough, you have the issue of the enemy attacking you right back, possibly with a better weapon than your own. I can't believe that I was dumb enough to even buy this game.

The game is heavily reliant on its weapon inventory screen. When you start out you'll get the impression that you can just pick up every little weapon you see, and keep it forever. The game falls flatter than it already has, because the game doesnt allow you to pick up infinate items, and later in the game you will struggle deciding which weapons to keep because you will find yourself stuck with a full inventory realy fast. The game doesnt help you at all with the game weapons system, it tells you nothing about the weapons beyond a vague description of what kind of weapon it is and something about what it does. As you collect more weapons in this game you will find that some of the new weapons are basically a new weapon that is exactly the same as the last, but with a different name and its alittle more powerful. The game includes a large amount of nearly the same guns that have completly different names, names like 50mm, 55mm etc... it becomes a huge challenge to even figure out your own weapons.

The games puts you into a level with enemies that are equipt with weapons much better than you, and on the later levels you can find yourself being hit by a heavy cannon (which can cause you to fall down) and hit you 5 or so times with a single fire gun. This can decimate your health realy fast. You can also be teamed up on by powerful enemies and you'll die realy quick. Its important to note that if you die in this game, you get returned to the first floor without any of the weapons that you had equiped at the time. If you had recently equipt new powerful weapons, you loose them. This makes your re-ascent to your current level a very gruelling process. This can also happen many many times in one play through the game.

The Multiplayer, though I've never tryed it, i would wagger is terrible, because its basically, best weapon makes you the winner, thats all. Also the graphics would undoubtedly slow down incredibly.

The Graphics and Sound are terrible in this game. Your own character is hard to figure out, and many parts of it look so confusing it becomes impossible to distiguish. Weapon effects are ok, but they all look the same. Your character doesnt animate very well, because he hardly ever seems to run at the right pace for how fast he is actually going and he seems to get thrown around at impossible angles and speeds like gravity has no effect on you at all. The sound is aweful, if there is music in this game, I didnt notice it because it probaly wasn't even noticable. The weapon SoundFX is terrible, "bang bang, pow pow, smash smash..." there are maybe 10 different sounds for over 200 weapons. The sounds get very annoying after only alittle while of playing.

This game has no replay value and has almost no enjoyment in your first play through. There is almost no story, "You are a robot made for the soul purpose of fighting, you were used for war but when there was no need for war you were locked in a tower, so you want to escape." Thats all.... Is that enough to make you turn your head?

Seriously, dont even bother buying this game, its a waste of time.....