Asura's Wrath
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Asura's Wrath (アスラズ ラース, Asurazu Rāsu) is an action video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Capcom. It was first announced at the Tokyo Game Show in 2010 and was released worldwide in February 2012. The game was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Plot
Asura is one of the Eight Guardian Generals, techno-divine beings who fight an eternal war with the Gohma and their creator Vlitra, the hostile spirit of their planet Gaea where humans live and give worship to them, which empowers them and their Karma Fortress with an energy called "Mantra". Vlitra is temporarily driven back, but the Guardian General's leader Deus is concerned about its return. Seeking greater power to fight the Gohma and achieve true immortality, the seven Guardian Generals including Asura's brother-in-law Yasha plan to use Asura's priestess daughter Mithra to channel vast quantities of Mantra. To ensure no interference with their plans, they kill Asura's wife Durga, frame Asura for the death of their emperor, then the Guardian General's leader Deus kills Asura when he tries to rescue Mithra. Encouraged by a Golden Spider, Asura escapes into the living world after 12,000 years, finding the Guardian Generals have now dubbed themselves the Seven Deities and slaughter humans to gather Mantra quickly. Swearing revenge on the Seven Deities, Asura goes after and kills each of them, using his rage to overcome death multiple times.
Asura's rage ultimately consumes him, turning him into a mindless demon. When Deus's second-in-command Olga tries using the Karma Fortress to kill Asura's enraged form, Yasha defects as he sees this as misuse of the humans' lives and Mithra's suffering. After crippling the Karma Fortress, Yasha restores Asura to himself, and the two join forces to kill Deus and free Mithra. Vlitra awakens as they achieve this, and with Mithra channeling the stored Mantra into them, Asura and Yasha successfully destroy Vlitra's core, destroying the Gohma for good. An enraged Olga attempts to kill Mithra, but the Golden Spider appears, kills her and kidnaps Mithra. It reveals its true identity as Chakravartin, creator of the universe who set up the conflict to find a worthy god to rule Gaea. Yasha sacrifices himself to empower Asura with the Karma Fortress's Mantra Reactor, allowing him to channel vast amounts of Mantra. Asura then fights and kills Chakravartin; this removes Mantra from the universe, which will kill Asura as he is fuelled by Mantra. His rage dissipated, Asura bids farewell to Mithra as he vanishes, and she is returned to Gaea.
The final scene shows Mithra telling the story of Asura to humans, with an epilogue taking place millions of years later in the modern-day society with Asura, his family and the Seven Deities having reincarnated as humans, until a giant meteor appears in the sky to crash into the city, prompting the reincarnated Asura to fight once again.
Why It Rocks
- The graphics are absolutely amazing, with great visual and character design, as well as nice detail of environment.
- The story is fantastic, Asura got betrayed by Deus, who killing her wife, kidnapped her daughter, and the earth has become corrupted by corruption gods that try to manipulate humans.
- The gameplay is very fantastic and very cinematic, while it gets a bit repetitive due to too much QTE, it got the job done to trying 3 different gameplay style: Beat 'em up, Rail Shooter, and QTE's Interactive.
- If wasn't good enough, the episode represents to the stage, each of them is 22 episodes with different gameplay here and there. The stage is long, taking it over 30 minutes for gameplay of each episode.
- When in this episode, the game will be an eye catch in the middle of the gameplay, sort of like anime. Thankfully, there's no commercial break on this game, so the gameplay will be continued without interrupted by ads, and most importantly, the game doesn't have loading screen!
- When in the beginning of the stage, there's preview on this game, telling the player what happens on the next episode, just like the anime.
- When the episode is complete, it is to be continued, again, just like the anime, too!
- After one of each part is ended, the game cut to end credits, but it is not a real end credits, you still completing each of these parts.
- The difficulty is balanced, while sometimes, it gets too easy due to no difficulty option.
- The character is very likeable, with Asura, the most likeable character, he can grow arms when he is getting angry, and he is invincible due to how strong they are.
- The voice actor is really top notch, both English and Japanese, and this Asura's screaming sounds is really satisfying, besides his screaming are getting annoying.
- The music is really cool!
- Tight controls.
- There are so many moments here and there:
- Some funny moment like Asura and Augus are warming in the sauna pool and when Asura's want to get close to the girl, Augus punching it in the Asura's face!
- Many cool battle scenes, such as Asura's battling against Chakravartin is really great.
- There's the DLC crossover with Street Fighter, featuring Ryu and Akuma. These DLC is very different to the base game as this DLC to be a Fighting games style.
Bad Qualities
- While the gameplay has different gameplay style, it gets a bit repetitive as mentioned before due to too much quick-time events.
- Not to mention, the game is too easy, even the difficulty is pretty balanced.
- While the screaming is cool, his screaming can be annoying sometimes.
- The game is short, taking it over 5 hours (6 hours if you play the DLC to makes the gameplay a little longer).
- The Street Fighter DLC unfortunately is uses the Japanese dub.
Reception
 "You fucked it up!/You done fucked it up!" |
Asura's Wrath was given mixed-to-positive reception, but the audience gave positive reviews praising the visual, story, presentation, gameplay, and controls, but criticism for short-length gameplay.
However, it was considered a commercial failure due to the poor sales.