

Owing mostly to the game’s highest priority of maintaining an entirely unserious tone, Shadow Warrior 3’s refusal to truly care about any of the cultural touch-stones it’s taking advantage of kneecaps the game." "Aside from the core combat experience, everything in Shadow Warrior 3 feels tangential most of all Polish developer Flying Wild Hog’s setting and cultural borrowings from Japanese folklore and mythology, which are given all the thematic weight of decorations for a child’s birthday party. An intended, aesthetic-tinged joke perhaps - more subtle than anything that comes out of protagonist Lo Wang’s mouth, at least?" James Davenport James is stuck in an endless loop, playing the Dark Souls games on repeat until.

"As minor a detail this may be to everyone save myself, I have to give Flying Wild Hog credit for so cleverly shifting the main color palette of their levels from red to green and finally to blue during the latter stages. Shadow Warrior 2’s combat is gleefully expressive and varied, but undermined by tired, dated humor. The handful of genuine chuckles the game does manage, coming almost unintentionally or just through other pieces of dialogue not pertaining to the series’ love for innuendo." Even so, it’s disappointing at just how unfunny most of the writing actually ends up being - not helped by the incessant pop culture references that spring up along the way. Blending viciously over-the-top gunplay predecessor with the elegant precision of the powerful katana, Devolver Digital's Shadow Warrior is an imaginative take on the classic arcade-style shooter.

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Both versions target 60fps, but in testing the PS4 game offers a more consistent frame rate.
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Shadow Warrior runs at 1080p on PS4 and 900p on Xbox One. Then there’s Lo Wang himself and the particular brand of humor shall we say if you weren’t a fan of it in prior games, Shadow Warrior 3 won’t convince you to change your mind here. A note on performance on Xbox One and PS4. Much like its gameplay, one that’s so desperate to hurry between one cobbled-together set-up after another, that any impact to what one is actually doing becomes an afterthought. With the exception of the controller issues everything else in this game comes highly recommended by myself. Add in some character and weapon upgrades with a great store and that is a recipe for success in my book. An element that, looking back, doesn’t linger all that well in the memory. Overall, Shadow Warrior 3 is an unbridled good time with great fights and even greater one-liners. "Such has been the focus on gameplay and even its presentation from a visual and artistic standpoint - and rightly so - that it’s no surprise that even here the notion of Shadow Warrior 3 as a narrative, a plot it anchors to its linear level-by-level progression, is easily the weakest element.
