Platform tested: PSP
Early in the adventure put it on a motorcycle mini game
not released many new PSP games nowadays, which is perhaps not so surprising when interest in the format have been at least a cool place for several years in the West. The fact that it is at all would show up some new games for the damages format more than a year after the portable console sequel PS Vita was released, it was not many people thought, but here I am in May 2013 with a brand new PSP games in hand . The feeling is about as strange as if it had turned up a new PS2 games for two, three years ago.
If the game really is brand new, however, is a matter of definition. In Japan, released namely Black Rock Shooter: The Game back in 2011, but it is only now that NIS America got it out to the West – and only through digital distribution. Thankfully, the idea is not as döfödd as it may sound when the PS Vita is backwards compatible and therefore has full support for this PSP game.
Black Rock Shooter is based on the brand of the same name who invited Japan on everything from toys to animé series for some time, and it takes no genius to figure out that this game is derived from the land of the sunrise. Just the fact that the game’s protagonist is a scantily clad, skinny little girl carrying around a handheld gun that is almost twice as big as she is, absolutely screaming manga and anime, but also the little detail that everyone speaks Japanese in American cities such as San Francisco and New York hints a little bit about the game’s origins. The voices are namely not dubbed into English, which can feel a little awkward at first, but at the same time setting a clear atmosphere along with the excellent background music.
“The fighting is pretty simple and can be compared with a stationary rails shooter or a light gun game without a light gun”
The title offers a unique combat system
game, we follow a group of soldiers who are said to be the last survivors on earth in a battle against aliens. Mankind’s main weapon to defend himself with, then, the character that I get the pleasure of checking – a little girl with creepy glowing blue eyes, Asperger’s syndrome and memory loss. It may sound clichéd – and that’s it, too – but there’s still something in the document that keeps me interested in the fate of the survivors, and see how our protagonist evolves from an unemotional, robotic fighting machine to a much more humane woman who fights for what she believes.
What makes this game unique is not its story, but its combat mechanics. Fighting in the Black Rock Shooter is quite simple and can be compared with a stationary rails shooter or a light gun game without a light gun. You are always still and aiming using the rubber nipple (joystick) your gigantic rifle against groups of incoming enemies. Between the huge rounds as you smashes through a simple push of a button you have to either avoid or block incoming attacks – the former is preferable, while it can have devastating consequences if you fail timing, while guaranteed to take a small amount of damage that only block attacks.
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