It's like king's quest with better graphics, but a less compelling story. The characters hardly know each other at all, but seem to have these deeply felt expectations and motivations around their relationships. It didn't make any sense. I think a lot could have been done to justify all of this, or, to have come up with less relationship-based justifications for their actions. (Without expanding the game too much, that seems like the right route.) People's actions, made sense, I suppose, but what they said about those actions and their motivations was bonkers.
These sort of point and click story games aren't really my thing. It's OK as those games go though, and not terribly long.
When I bought Katana Zero, I thought I was getting a really sweet and fast paced ninja action game with some story on the side. Playing the game, the action is definitely well worth it on its own, but the story is phenomenal. This game exceeded my expectations. However, that being said, I do have a gripe. The story's ending doesn't feel like the ending to a complete story, but a book that's part of a story. Several plot elements are left completely unexplored, and I find it hard to believe the main character doesn't do anything else. Now, that being said, I did look online and hear that the devs are making a large (and free) DLC. Hopefully that is the continuation of the story, because I really want to see where the story goes. If it does continue the story, I'll give the game 5 Stars. Another gripe I have is it's really short. Took me 5 hours to beat the game. It does have multiple endings, and the length lends well to replaying speedrunning (yet to try speedrun mod), but the story's quality makes the short length a real shame. This would also be solved somewhat by the DLC, though it wouldn't fix it completely. Anyways, overall, phenomenal game with great gameplay and story.
