Daikatana

The design of this is quite solid, save for the sidekicks. The level design is great and well paced and the combat is very, very satisfying and fun. Truely, if there were some way to just turn off your sidekicks, or if they behaved better, this game would have been remembered as a true classic.

Do a search for Daikatana at the Internet Archive. You know, that place with the Wayback Machine. Turns out, they host things besides your old Angelfire and Geocities web sites. The first result, the one attributed to Proteus4994 and Suspicious, is the one you want. You don't need to play this game because those two foolish men from the internet have done it for you. They're like Jesus but instead of dying for our sins they played a bad video game. I'm pretty sure Daikatana came from a pact with Satan so it's actually a genius metaphor when you think about it.* *No it's not. That metaphor is like the weapons in this game. Stupid, barely functional and will probably end up being the cause of my death.

Honestly Daikatana is trash and the only reasons why I played it is because John Romero was part of its development and because I watched that old LP from Proteus and Suspicious eons ago. Yeah this is not a good game, but it is the best thing to mod since there are mod tools out there for it. Making the game dumber is the only way to "dull the pain" of playing Daikatana. This game is just anime fanfiction and making it more of an abomination is the only thing that makes it funny or even slightly redeemable. Not to mention the AI assistants, can't leave without your buddy Superfly who is stuck running into a wall for all eternity or trying to invent new ways to speedrun his own life. I am forgiving of the fact that this game does not look that great and other games that didn't look good even for their time, but wow the art style is trash and everything is green. I learned that green is Romero's favorite colour and that this is one of few games where green water doesn't hurt you. Only play this to mod it, if you want to seriously play it just watch the old Proteus LP which has been re-uploaded on youtube in glorious 240p.

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Well, it looks like created of the coolest pieces of that time pop-culture, just done in a most unappropriate way possible. I hardly made it through even with godmode and noclips. I'm sorry, John, it's a teenager crap. Only total reboot can save this IP.