A terrible Lara Croft + Prince of Persia + Bayonetta rip-off. The graphics and scenery are gorgeous but the game is really short, the writing is terrible and the main character is a talkative murderous maniac with no personnality. Watch this playthrough at your own risk. The game is somewhat fun during the first hour but it gets really boring and repepitive pretty fast.,Tthe rewind time mechanic is interesting but not really user-friendly. At first I tried the demo on the PS3 and was really disappointed, the framerate was horrendous... but the PC version is really smooth and, let me say that again, the graphics are gorgeous. I have no idea what's going on with the story, there's this hunter chick that looks for treasures in a land filled with lava or something, but hey I don't think anybody will play this game for the story, right? The voice acting is okay, the British accent is a bit out of nowhere though, but I like it nonethless. Although Ayumi can't stop doing monologues! about everyting she sees in the world. The exposition is really force-fed and she doesn't have interesting stuff to say but "oh hey I should go there" or "Oh blimey another monster, let's kill this" etc. And I can't stand the voice of the the dude who reads the pages you find on the ground, this guy's acting isn't that great so don't mind me if I don't find all his pages and skip his monologues. urgh, can't stand him. So Blades of Time is supposed to be a spiritual successor to X-Blades. I already ...
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