#Crimson tears ps2 iso upgrade#
#Crimson tears ps2 iso series#

#Crimson tears ps2 iso upgrade#

You have several different attacks, including one that invokes a nice rotating camera effect and clobbers everything in touching distance, you can block and backflip out of the way, and between missions you can repair your decaying weaponry, shop for new tools and trinkets, upgrade or create new weapons using scavenged parts, and use pick-ups from the dungeons to unlock new combos.ДЄs we said, the combat to begin with is very basic.

#Crimson tears ps2 iso series#

You have three characters - Amber the samurai, Kadie the martial artist and Tokio the firearms expert - and you have to buy items and weapons for them in shops before descending into a series of dungeons and beating everything up room-by-room until you've conquered the resident boss. All we can really do is say that for all its flaws, its relatively narrow remit, and the frankly silly amount of repetition, it does have a couple of important aces up its skin-tight and/or Lycra-based sleeves: it's bound together by the sort of intriguingly mysterious story that you normally expect from a serious RPG, borne out in gorgeous cel-shaded cut sequences that are clear reward enough for your endeavours level-to-level and the combat, though it begins life as a button-masher, quickly evolves into something more deliberate and varied, and stays that way. We could then have gently pointed out that it always involves replaying the same dungeon several times in order to make progress, and that the dungeons are very repetitive in design, and that the three characters are all a bit similar, and that it's that sort of stiff, single-minded Japanese action game that usually goes completely unnoticed or gets a thorough kicking when it does risk the journey westward. What we should have said is something more like, 'It's a story-driven, cel-shaded Japanese sci-fi yarn with big weapons, improbably big breasts, and lots of entertaining combat, and you get to upgrade your combos, create your own weapons out of parts of your own choosing, and pump your earnings into the local economy so more things open up between levels.' Indeed, upon reflection, 'It's a mixture of hackandslash and RPG elements where you load yourself up with items and weapons and then trek through randomly generated dungeons over and over whilst pretending to be an anime chick in a thong,' probably didn't focus on the right things. 'To be honest,' he grumbles, 'it sounds like you're having trouble selling it.' Reddy? 'But 'sounds' is definitely the operative word.' We've bought ourselves some time with that, but the damage is clearly already done.

'Yes, it does,' we concede, struggling to think of a convincing response. 'That sounds pretty tedious,' our friend complains, as he tries for the fifth time in as many minutes to make a break for it and steer our instant messenger conversation towards Grand Theft Auto.