Comments on: Gamer Limit Backlog Review: God Hand

By: al swafi

al swafi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:14:20 +0000

th gam was sooo hard

By: Luca

Luca — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:28:56 +0000

Hey this is a very interesting article! Thanks!

By: Ryujikun

Ryujikun — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:37:09 +0000

I believe CheeseKnight came from n4g with that very…bold statement used to pull readers in…which it did. If you look for a comment like that in the article you see that it doesn’t say anything like that.

Anyways good review indeed. Will probably try to look into the game again. And when I feel like I need to throw my controller I’ll just quit the game and play something else for a while and get back to it later lol like I do with Ninja Gaiden Sigma, or currently Uncharted on Crushing mode.

By: Chris Carter

Chris Carter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:09:33 +0000

@CheeseKnight
Funnily enough, I didn’t submit the article. This is a review; the title was a joke.

By: Paul Clark

Paul Clark — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:01:10 +0000

I like the idea of a scaling difficulty, dynamic to how you are playing, I think Left 4 Dead does that too. I would prefer to have some degree of control over it though, like in World Ends With You, despite the bad music and overly emo-ness, the way you could scale everything down if it was too hard at the expense of experience/drops/money and find a level right for you.
But I suppose Godhand’s method is more of a method of “we will kick your ass. Oh, you’re playing well are you? You think will stop it?”

By: Peter Skerritt

Peter Skerritt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:57:27 +0000

@JC “Hard” is a subjective term. Some players may have better skills than others or a knack for playing games like God Hand, while others may adapt more slowly to the control and difficulty and become frustrated quite rapidly.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:33:23 +0000

GAME IS NOT HARD!!!

By: David Rhinehart

David Rhinehart — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:13:49 +0000

I really need to give this game a try

By: Peter Skerritt

Peter Skerritt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:59:26 +0000

@Nah Point well-taken. I looked at Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) the same way. The game was unforgivably hard almost from the get-go and I do remember seeing no less than 10 used copies of the game on GameStop shelves within 10 days of its release. It’s fine for games to be difficult, but good game design (IMO) should have a game build up to tougher difficulty. Let the player progress and learn the controls and nuances of the game, and even earn a couple of boss battle victories before turning up the heat. It builds a player’s confidence.

By: Peter Skerritt

Peter Skerritt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:55:53 +0000

@Captain America Really? REALLY? What a baseless and rather insulting comment. What’s worse is that you don’t appear to have any evidence to back up your claim. The reviewer listed his reasons for liking the game… so what are yours for disliking it? Do you have even have one?

By: Peter Skerritt

Peter Skerritt — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:53:51 +0000

@Cheeseknight28 Slow down there, Tex. IGN’s outlier score for God Hand has been consistently discussed and touched upon when talking about the game. I don’t see the title change as a plea for hits as it is a tongue-in-cheek jab at IGN’s score versus what the reviewer thought of the game. Not once in the body of the review did the author make the charge that IGN cost God Hand sales; the low sales could more be attributed to the poor marketing campaign and low amount of hype that preceded the game’s launch.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:41:23 +0000

God Hand is an amazing game. Second favorite PS2 game, behind Resident Evil4. Definitely worth the price of admission. Sad to say that it will probably never get a sequel : (