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The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai Review |
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A game about a dishwasher sounds like a family-friendly minigame collection (Cleaning Mama?), but in fact, The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai is neither of those things. Instead, it's a brutal and bloody 2D side-scrolling beat-em-up that will cause your heart to pound and your fingers to ache. If you're nostalgic for the good old days, when games tested your manual dexterity and mental determination, this one will scratch that itch with great style. The action gets monotonous over time, and a few design elements make the already knuckle-breaking challenge an occasional headache. However, this package is all good fun, and it offers plenty of content to justify its 800-point ($10) asking price.
The single-player campaign follows the game's silverware-scrubbing, undead hero through a series of disparate settings, from train yards and city streets to opera houses and gravesites littered with bones. Levels are introduced by comic panels that give some context, but the story makes little sense, and doesn't need to. Your job is to slash up rocket ninjas, gun-toting mafiosi, laser-spewing robots, agile head chefs, pumpkins with chainsaws, lumbering skeletons, and a number of enormous, nail-bitingly difficult bosses. To dispatch them to the big baddie graveyard in the sky, you'll chop them up with a few different implements of destruction. Your meat cleavers get the job done, but your katana lets you fly around the level, giving you some added flexibility. Eventually you'll grab a couple of kamas, a chainsaw, and a shotgun/machine gun combo, and they all have their individual strengths and weaknesses--and come with their own set of combos to unleash. |
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