Daikatana

Yeap, here it is...daikatana. Well, I've played the game just recentely. It was a great fun. Certain things stood among the rest in a bad way; for example the weapons. An FPS should always have great weapons but unfortunately daikana puts at your disposal a huge arsenal of simply useless weapons. In each stage you will end using the same weapon, and that's a major problem for an fps. That said the infamous sidekick AI is truly lacking, but after the patch is functional and shouldn't be too much of a trouble. On the other hand the level design is great, albeit a little bit incosistent, as it's been pointed out, and the game represents quite a challenge for new players and veterans as well. I've never played the multiplayer but I've heard it's fun. If you are an FPS fan, possibly with a passion for the '90s and the moody esthetic of that period, I would reccomend Daikatana: it's fast, fun, dark and b-movish.

This is the game that taught me a valuable lesson; don't buy into the hype. Nastalgia can make some questionable games worth playing again years later. This game was DOA almost 20 years ago. To those who buy it, enjoy your painfully long unskippable cutsceens.

Oh where to begin? The level design is nonsensical, inconsistent, and often confusing. Weapons are either game breaking or absolutely useless with no room in between. The graphics weren't even stellar in the preview phase and now they are just a blocky mess. There really isn't much in the way of positive things to say about this title. I am giving it a second star due to what I feel are clever mechanics for character advancement.

It is a game ahead of its time, where Romero tried to innovate and was baddly recieved because of a public opinion demonized him and his work. The game has fixing patches that will make it a great fps. Stop whinning and try it before getting infected by haters speech. The creator of this game made Doom and Quake and those by definition are the foundations of modern fps. So, Romero doesn't screw around when making games. Buy it, patch it, apreciate it for the time when it was made with the respective associated story of its maker and then maybe your opinion may become valid. Of course it has its limitations, but didn't all the games back the had? There are people calling this the worst game ever...well i can surelly name some recent far far worst games, can you do that exercise too? Do you know why there is such a remake, remaster and new 90s inspired shooters fever wave in 2019? Food for thought. Not perfect, but there was a time when someone had to take chances, and Romero did. I give it 3/5 just because the fixing source of the game are the fans and not the producer.

I never played Daikatana when it originally came out and later i only heard about this creation of John Romero was it legend as one of the worst shooters ever made. But i was curious. If it is really so bad? If legend is true? Answer is: yes. I knew this in moment of starting new game, when i landed in one of ugliest swamp i have ever seen in video games, full of buzzing bugs and jumping frogs as first enemies. Daikatana is ugly even as a 2000 title. It using Quake 2 engine, but i looks worse than Quake. Gameplay is clunky and levels and enemies are often iritating. Involving time travels plot had potenial but in the end is boring, and voice acting and cutscenes are hillarious bad. One of the key features of Daikatana: companion system, is the worst part of game. Buddies of main hero are totally idiots who go straight into danger, shots you in back, blocking everywhere and when they die is game over. I had to save/reload very often. Lucky for me there was an option to disable limited save crystals feature so i was iritated less times. But i can't say that Daikatana is the worst shooter. There was some moments when i had fun. Four periods of time is four various enviroments, enemies and weapon sets. And some of weapons was really satisfying to use. And some leves was satisfying to complete. There are worse shooters out there, but they didn't have do impact to games as media. And thats why i gave Daikatana two stars instead one. I don't recommend Daikatana as pleasent game. It legend is really true. But sometimes you have to see on your own eyes what it means when big game is bad game.