Who wants some Wang?!

So I just got done playing the game Shadow Warrior through a Port which might I add looked pretty good. If anyone knows Shadow Warrior, then maybe they can relate to me on my review.

Shadow Warrior was made by 3D Realms around 1998 as to be considered the next Duke Nukem 3D. Instead of a hard ass from the US, it was based around a Wise Ass Japanese Ninja named Lo Wang. I won't go into the story, background and shit, but just give the gist of the game.

Back around 1998 I was heavily into Blood and Shadow Warrior because of their themes and I LOVE FPS. I downloaded their demos and would play them over and over. The game starts out in a japanese city when you start fighting demons. The design and detail was really good. One thing about this game was the weapons. You start out with hands or a sword, later you get sherukens and uzis (uzii?). Most weapons while using them allowed you to switch their mode. For instance, the Riot gun (Shot gun pretty much) you can switch it to a 3 round shot. Or my favorite, the missile launcher, where besides shooting missiles (that most likely will fuck yourself up) you can fire heat seeking ones, or even... a Nuke... I always had fun with that one.

The second level was my least of the demo, because it was in a construction zone, where everything looked the same, whatever... Third level you go to your masters temple, and they style and looks are amazing, you even see a couple jap anime girls bathing and get to flirt with them (until they get annoyed of you and start shooting you with an uzi, go fig). Finally the last level takes you to the most authentic imperial Japanese fortress and woods. The designs are just amazing, and well... It is my favorite level... you kill the boss and thats it...

Now the demo as you would expect got me hooked, so I eventually played the full version after getting it for xmas. I got through the game without cheating, I think it is the only game i could, besides the original DOOM.

Fast forward 10 years and I decide to play it because I don't remember the levels. Of course I had to play the Demo levels again, love them. But then I moved to the rest of the game... and well, the rest of the game is boring. I mean I felt like there was no creativity on those levels as they were just recycled images used in the demo... Much like playing doom, where every damn thing looks the same. Majority of it took place in rock/Japanese temple like places, with the exception of a couple city style levels that wasn't anything fancy... This was definitely not what I remembered...

The bad guys were all the same with the exception of a couple and there were 2 more bosses to fight (not including having to fight the damn snake boss from the demo again), a huge sumo guy and Zilla, the final one... Of course I guess they ran out of ideas so they started taking the first couple bosses, make them smaller and weaker, and bam you got new regular enemies...

At the end of the game, you have to fight the snake and sumo again (in boss status) and then fight zilla who is some dude in a large robotic samurai suit. Who I beat him I don't know because he threw everything at you but his own damn feces.

After you finally beat him, it goes to a 30 second video clip of the boss flying away... THE END. Now you want to talk about a crappy ending there you go. At least in duke nukem you see him make a goal via the aliens head. Zilla of course said "We will meet again" Which is also crap, because they never made a second one nor were they planning because sales were so sad compared to Duke... maybe its in the expansion packs.

A game should never have a ending stating there will be a second one, because if it flops, there wont be any, and the gamer will feel incomplete, like me, struggling to find an end, similar to the Super Mario Bros. Movie WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO MUSHROOM KINGDOM DAMMIT!!!!???

Anyway, if you want to play the game, play the demo, no more... its all the same crap and the ending blows.... thats just my opinion...

Now to get Blood up and running, wish they made a damn port for it...

Edit: Just got Wonton Destruction downloaded, so ima get started on that, wooooot!

Edit2: Played wanton destruction, damn good, that is HOW the game shoulda been, atleast it was a free download.