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I want badly to believe this review, as it's very compelling, but the sad truth is that I haven't seen a single Kessen review that's enough like another for me to tell if the game is actually any good, or even any bad.

Or if it even exists, for that matter.

Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

Like I said in the beginning of the review, it took time for me to appreciate Kessen enough to call it great. Even then, I didn't give it a perfect score, because I don't think I could bring myself to do that. I have no doubt I like the game more than the next person, but then it's one game I seem to always come back to, year after year, without any premeditation to do so. That has to count for something, I figure.

I heard Kessen 2 & 3 allow for greater combat, but I haven't checked those out. Maybe you should!

I don't have to boost my review resume because I have a real resume.

As someone who bought Kessen secondhand and manual-less, I found the game's lack of tutorials and general help sections to be really grating. It was only after I found a manual pdf, which was filled with Japanese history instead of useful info, that I figured most people were in the same boat. There's something to be said about a strategy game that lets you bungle through without really knowing how to play correctly, but I'm not sure what. [Aside: I didn't find the graphics grainy, but having to hear "fear my tonbogeri!" all the time almost drove me insane.]

Either way, good review.

Dogpile on Gwinnett!