A great game with so much untapped potential!
User Rating: 8 | Rise of the Kasai PS2
Rise of kasai is the sequel to the 2003 game Mrk of Kri. Mark of kri featured a innovative battle system in which when you tilted the control stick a line would appear and if the line hit an enemy that enemy would be assigned button you would attack it with. This is great because it's fun and let's you handle waves of enemies at a time. There is also some strategy involve if you only have one enemy assigned to one button the other buttons will act as modifiers that let you pull of combo's. Blocking is easy just hold R1 and you'll block this also provides strategy because you have to watch your back and make sure to block hit's. There are also stealth moves that can be used which are pretty cool such as slamming guy's up against walls and stabbing your sword into them. Unlike the first game your no longer on a solo quest now you can play as Rau Or Tati his little sister who grew up a lot from the first game. There are also flashback sequences which let you play as Baumusu a big burly fellow, or Griz a sleek ninja like fellow. This sound's like a great game right and your right it's great but there are some problem's. First of all the A.I the enemies are pretty dumb, you could stealth kill a gaurd right next to another one, and the other gaurd won't notice. Not only that but your partner's pretty dumb too.You'll be setting up a stealth attack and your partner will run out and alert the guard's. The graphic's are good the enviroment's look ,nice and the character's are nicely animated. The other high point of the game is the stortytelling the story is told by the main charcter's rau's bird and the oracle a mystical tree it's a good story and it'll get you involved. ANother good thing is the cutscene's the art is done by old disney employees so the cutscenes ar well animated and very cool looking. All in all it's a great game that's brought down by some bad A.I. 
