Blood Will Tell -- Initial Impression.

The full title of the game I'm playing next is Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo. Released in Japan as Dororo, the game is the first title produced by Red after being acquired by SEGA. Dororo was a serialized comic that started appearing weekly in magazines starting in 1967. Dororo tells the story of a man who sold his son's body to demons for power. The infant was missing forty-eight body parts. The father, disgusted by the sight of the child, set him adrift in a basket on the local river. He floated down the river for miles before being found by a doctor who was returning from studying medicine in China. The doctor took in the infant and started to perform operations on him to replace the missing parts. Cut to eighteen years later to when the now young man learns of his past and his mission to set about reclaiming his lost body parts. Each part being held by one of the demons. It's a totally apeshit insane story that's actually quite cool in a demented sort of way. But that's the concept. It's otherwise an Onimusha like hack and slash action game for the PlayStation 2. In the hour or so I've spent with it I've had some issues with the camera and not much else. It seemingly controls well enough, looks and sounds decent, and is set up as a total boss extravaganza. We'll have to see how it all pans out of course. See if the camera gets better, where the challenge goes, how the graphics fair, how the story pans out, and if it turns out to be any fun. My initial impression tells me the odds are good.