Thursday 19 January 2012

Where Anime meets Gaming: Hajime no Ippo

Japanese gaming and animation have cross pollinated for decades, but as hardware has caught up many games play like an anime episode with speed lines and super human powers done justice on both the big and small scenes through cut scenes. In Hajime no Ippo Treasure tred the tightrope between the two media with all the panache you'd expect keeping the balance firmly on action and giving players the power in their fingertips to be the champ. The gym in which to train is the ring: always challenging as its always fair - knock downs are always because you just didn't keep your guard up well enough. Action is viewed by two boxing gloves giving an unrestricted view of your hard knock opponent. Deserving of a wider Western audience with such glorious gameplay. Wonderful interpretation of the boxing world which holds your gloved hand to get you trained up ready for the big bruisers. Treasure: we wear your badge with pride.

1 comment:

Vente R4i said...

I am great fan of Japanese games. They are very technical and interesting. Hajime no lppo is one of them. In this fight in a ring is wonderful to play. I played this game only once.