Princess Kaguya is a Japanese-style beat ’em up game. Play as a beautiful princess dressed in traditional Japanese garb, and battle enemies using a kendama stick and a bow and arrows as weapons!
Kaguya’s journey to save her twin sister, Sakuya, now unfolds!
One-Sentence Summary:
A short brawler with excellent artwork, atmosphere, and character design that is unfortunately marred by frustratingly stiff controls and lack of gameplay polish.
Pros:
+ Superb art and character design
+ Authentic Japanese theming and feel
+ Good variety of attacks, special moves, and combos
+ Can't just button mash to win, needs...
while the art and music are great the game itself is awful.
This game has a heap of charm on the content side - great art style, decent music etc. As other people have pointed out though, the combat system lets it down. The biggest problem for me was the animation lock on the standard melee attacks is just way too long. This means you're glued to the spot for a good deal of time while your attacks execute. As...
Fatal flaw of this short beat 'em up was the controls. Especially when you wanted to attack and it turned you in the wrong direction, which happened very often, and could get you killed. Otherwise, the controls were poor but workable. Cool and unconventional designs on most monsters. The intro in static panels dragged on. The story was nothing to write...
Poor hit detection and controls that are not so so. Overall looks good but plays bad.
