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Thankfully the controls are up to the task and before long things become second nature to players. Dodging, deflecting bullets, using the environment and knowing enemy behaviour is essential to progression and the game often requires players to do all of this at once.

This is achieved by using a combination of skills that players must master if they expect to proceed. There were a few moments that mixed things up like a bike chase or sneaking through a night club, but essentially room-by-room massacre is the name of the game. This is essentially the entire game, enter a room, kill the goons, move on to the next room, repeat.

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Each level consisted of multiple rooms, chock full of baddies to kill. Make no mistake my friends, the gameplay is excellent. The game presents the story in quiet moments between the action, giving players time to take a breath and prepare for the next battle but I quite often found myself wanting more of these moments, my need to discover what was happening drove me forward just as much as the excellent gameplay did. I wonвЂ™t ruin the plot for you because it is fantastic and crazy in equal measure but just know this, it is a tale the dabbles in time repetition, illegal military experiments and the conscience of a killer who canвЂ™t remember his past. Things start off simple enough, you play as a swordsman sent off to assassinate some nasty fellow but before long things start to get weird. At that point, Katana Zero began to sing to me in a way few games ever do. It hides this fact well, giving all appearance of a simple action title, but once I wrapped my head around the fact that this is anything but simple, I found my groove. No, it took me a while to realise this but Katana Zero is, first and foremost, a puzzle game.

I jumped in expecting a tight action platformer and a tough challenge and that is exactly what I got but at that same time, that isnвЂ™t what Katana Zero is. It lured me in with swanky 16-bit graphics and a big Samurai sword. Katana Zero вЂ“ Thought Before Death PC, Switch