Is Chaos Legion not the greatest game ever?

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Is this game not the greatest? I mean, it has everything one needs! Look, there’s a thick storyline: Two friends are separated, as one friend kills the other friend’s lover/wife/sister/something, then friend who lost lover/wife/sister comes back to seek revenge, gaining the powers of the gods, to bring a demon back from the dead, 'cause the demon can help him retrieve his lover/wife/sister! It’s got explosions, 1000’s of enemies coming at you at once, summoning, a multitude of arenas, and the greatest music ever! I cannot stress how incredible the music is!

It’s got 100’s of different enemies, even some that don’t die unless you kill it’s “mother”. After a certain point in the game, you get a level select item, so you can go back and listen to the awesome music… or well, play through it again! The levels change as the story progresses too! There’s even levelling up! 6 different summons, each of which also have experience requirements. And they give YOU abilities! There’s a shitload of abilities! Double jumping, single jumping, dashing, turning your sword into fire, flying, dodging, secret powers, and a whole crapmuch more!

The story is so thick, and long! It’s like an RPG, but it’s a slash-em-up game! Did I mention the music?! The music is fucking EXTREME! It’s all orchestrial, and changes as you progress through the levels. For example, it lowens up right before a boss battle, and then bursts out when it starts! About the bosses, there’s like, only 7 of them. But, in the latter stages, you fight multiples of them! In level 3, there’s some dog-demon thingy, and it’s hard like fuck! In level 14 or so, you fight 100 of them consecutively!

And when you beat the game, you unlock more difficulties, ranging from Hard, to Extremely Abso-fucking-lutely Tedious! I say tedious, 'cause you die so fucking much in the harder modes! If you don’t have this game, get it now!!!

I remember back in the chat, Hades said it was kickass. Has anyone else played it? It’s awesomely awesome.

So many people dislike this game, and they are all missing the essence of Chaos Legion. This is one of the greatest games ev0r. I don’t understand how people can dislike all this violence!

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Maybe it was the fact that I paid a whole $50 for it when it came out, but it seemed like a watered down Devil May Cry to me. I wasn’t impressed.

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A prime example of a person who dislikes the sheer greatness of Chaos Legion.

What didn’t you like?

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Is this game anything like Dark Legions? Because that was a great game too.

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Depends. Was Dark Legions a slash-em-up? Company? Chaos Legion is a Capcom game. So it ranks up there with DMC.

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Bah, I thought it was boring. The game was way too repetitive, although the legion system was somewhat cool. Going from room to room, fighting from wave to wave of enemies with the same combos over and over again was such a chore for me. Devil May Cry 3 all the way for me baby.

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But don’t you find it fun? Piles of enemies at you at once? Isn’t DMC3 like that?

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DMC3 has a kickass combo system that makes the gameplay alot of fun. Add in 4 styles for diferrent methods play, and a kickass setting, and you got one of the best capcom games in a while.

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But DMC2 sucked monkey anus. How do I know DMC3 isn’t the same?

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Read the reviews my friend. It plays like the first one, only 5 times better.

EDIT: In fact, you can read my review right here. http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/review/R85464.html

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To continue my earlier analogy, Chaos Legion felt like a watered down DMC, with the repetitiveness of Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

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I don’t get it. All slash-em-ups are repetitive. But, Chaos Legion is like any other, if not better. The music helps it a lot. Devil May Cry, and Castlevania both had okay music, but Chaos Legion’s music is incredible.

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Sucks.

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Chaos Legion wasn’t challenging one bit. All it did was throw enemies at you, and Sieg didn’t have much combos. The environment was boring and all the rooms look nearly the same.

And like said, Devil May Cry 3 lasts long, because there are so many was to play. I already played the game for 56 hours, and I only halfway through Dante Must Die difficulty.

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People keep mentioning repetitiveness as if it was inherently bad.

In Shinobi, the single best game I’ve played in my life, you had two combos and 3 types of magic that were largely useless. One of the combos was a button mash. The other was alternating between X and Square to cut enemies out of the sky. On top of that, you could do a lightspeed dash.

Six moves. SIX. This is a 80 hour game we’re talking about, and could have easily been more. And it had six moves. And it was the best game I’ve ever had the monstrous ecstacy of playing, from beginning to end. And it was repetitive.

The entire philosophy of the game was to kill small enemies to charge your sword and then hack the larger enemies in half with a single slice. I did this for Over 80 hours, and not once was I bored.

Repetitivity in itself isn’t a good excuse to say a game sucks. Games can be repetitive in an extremely appealing way. Pong. Tetris. Space Invaders.

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Exactly. If a game is fun, it outweighs the fact that it’s repetitive. How about the Resident Evil games? They are repetitive. Yet so many people like them.

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Shinobi was an extremely fast-paced action game. Loved it, especially the tate moves. It’s possible to kill a boss in one hit. Really cool ninja game, and the one combo didn’t bother me here, because of the fast-paced action.

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Shinobi also did one thing right that almost every fucking game EVER does wrong: Instantaneous retries. You can’t imagine how having to mash through pages of dialogue every time to wanted to retry in games like Chrono Cross utterly RAPED said games into oblivion. With Shinobi, it was Start -> Down -> X and you were pretty much right where you were. It was almost like savestates. Shinobi couldn’t afford to fuck around for being so difficult. It wanted to be challenging without being discouraging, and it did just that.

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Yeah, and the game was just badass. Hotsuma looked cool, and tates only made him look cooler :smiley:

Shinobi had alot of style.

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Resident Evil games aren’t really repetitive, though. The rooms don’t all look the same, and as soon as you’re used to how an enemy type works, they throw a new one at you. Chaos Legion wasn’t a bad game, I just think that there’s better games in the genre, like Devil May Cry, Prince of Persia, or the aforementioned Shinobi.