Some Initial Muramasa thoughts

So I purchased Muramasa today. $10 off! Hurray frys sale! Only played for like 30 minutes though, grandmother is over, so we had other family by for din din. Still, to put it simply, the half hour I played was amazing. I don't understand the mediocre reviews this game is getting, I had an absolute blast.

The graphics, holy crap the graphics. Best looking game I've ever played. No joke. I love the downtime running just so I can check out the environments/backgrounds. If they release this game for ps3, I would seriously entertain the thought of repurchasing the game, as having this art in HD would be mindblowing.

Controls, I'm not as fond of. Tried out the gc controller first, and found it a tad awkward and unresponsive (maybe just my old ass controllers). So I switched midway to the wiimote/nunchuck and found it to be way more intuitive, having pretty much every action mapped to where I figured they should be. My only qualm is the lack of a jump button, could really do with better jump control than jamming up. I see they ran out of buttons on the wii controls, but it should have been doable on the gc controller.

The actual gameplay itself I find kind of charming. I was kind of turned off at first when the tutorial was basically having me mash the same button to perform pretty much every move in my arsenal, but once I got into real battles I was surprised how tight my character performed and how easy it is to pull off the different moves I wanted. The unique sword abilities are a lot of fun, and trying to time switches between blades midbattle is great, keeps you focused on more than just slashing. The whole forging tree looks really dangerous, that is the kind of shit I lose hours to planning paths to take, always ignoring my forthought so I can replan all over again.

I didn't play long, but with first class visuals, simple controls, and a nifty hack and slash fight system, this game looks like an absolute winner to me. We'll see how I feel after putting some hours into this game, but I doubt my opinion is going to get much lower, if at all.