Clover Studio, former Department # 4, Capcom, creators of Viewtiful Joe among others & Okami, are responsible for the emergence of this UFO appointed God Hand. I can not hide the surprise I had when I saw the first trailer for this game ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY90Jl-W6Bg ). The team is almost the same as Resident Evil 4 (except that this time, Shinji Mikami is responsible game design and Kobayashi is a producer) is behind this portends a rather good game
Shinji Mikami & Atsushi Inaba: Member of (fire) Clover Studio
The game is presented as a "Comical Action Game". A rather strange universe with a guy with an arm divine conferring superhuman powers that explodes villains straight out of Hokuto no Ken in a setting very far west. The universe is very quirky, full of gags, humor and action! I was very excited and I started to get information on many Thurs watching any trailer arriving on the canvas. I saw more and more I expected the game It was even a release date (September 14, 2006 in Japan) and the music is made by Grasshopper Manufacture (Masafumi Takada who handled the OST Killer7) ... It's all good!
The game finally came out and had acquired "one day" what about? That is my opinion that dates from the time where I asked my first time my analytical look at the game ..
[ The text below date of September 2006 ]
Technical Special: DRAGON KICK!
Technical Special: 100 FISTS!
Technical Special: HOMERUN GOD!
One of the best finds of this game is the editor of combos. Each stroke is adjustable. If you want a character that is played only with kicks possible. You can choose different types of shots with different properties such as break-guards, launchers or some moves that expel the enemy. One of the problems the game is its difficulty due to the fact that the enemies are very good! They dodge, protect, attack-cons ... In addition, the enemies have a level! plain the more you play well by doing good attacks, good dodges and more the level of the enemy increases! There are 4 levels on Lvl. 1,2,3 then Lvl: DIE (!) I sometimes had more trouble beating a group of enemies, a boss to say! But well after it should play well, be strategic and especially not stuff which is quite weird for a beat 'em all, but really interesting.
The dodges used once well controlled, sometimes breathtaking fights without getting hit once (with a LOT of luck and precision ...) I loved this game, its high difficulty sometimes makes it rewarding to beat a boss or a group of enemies and it enhances the pleasure of play! The music is very effective, very like the game shifted elsewhere. One of the few flaws the game is its graphics quality: modeling of the characters is good but the level design leaves something to be desired but who cares it's a minor flaw compared to the great qualities of this game! If you are in lack of action with God Hand you will be served!
[ Back in 2010 ... ]
Unfortunately Clover was closed after the release God Hand in 2006 ... But former members of the studio came together to form Platinum Games in 2008 under the leadership of Sega! With hits such as Bayonetta, Mad World and soon Vanquish the same Shinji Mikami ...
You know what you have to do if you own a Playstation 2 (or a Playstation 3 can play PS2 games) buy this game it's an order! I highly recommend the Japanese version but hey the PAL version is correct too ...
- Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuTXPMQxLzE
- Fansite: http://kungpaofu.com/ (very comprehensive!)
-Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/godtracks