Trek to Yomi

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The player assumes the role of Hiroki, a young samurai living in a small town during the Edo period.

One day, while training with his master, Hiroki’s town was attacked by a band of bandits, led by Kagerou.

Although the two samurai teachers and students succeeded in repelling the bandits and killing Kagerou, the price to pay was Hiroki’s life.

Years later, when Hiroki was an adult, the town was once again attacked. The band of bandits is again led by Kagerou, who, unknown to him, has come back to life.

This time, Hiroki was killed. But it seems that death is not the end, because Hiroki finds himself in Yomi – the realm of the dead in the Shinto religion.

Hiroki will have to overcome many trials to be able to return to earth to end Kagerou forever, avenging the innocent lives he took.

As mentioned in the introduction, one of the most remarkable things about Trek to Yomi is the game’s settings.

Although the development budget is not high, Trek to Yomi has done a good job in providing players with a collection of beautiful and vivid Edo period Japanese paintings.

Whether in the town, the jungle, the temple, or the ghostly, mystical world of Yomi, the game’s scenes are always designed in detail.

Even, the writer feels that most of the game’s scenes are beautiful enough to capture on a phone or computer screen.

Most importantly, it’s that the game’s majestic scenery also makes the moments before the sword fights of Trek to Yomi more dramatic.

The way Trek to Yomi uses black and white is also remarkable.

It’s difficult to explain, perhaps due to the game’s rotation combined with the lighting effects, or perhaps other factors, but I feel that the experience of playing Trek to Yomi will be reduced completely if the gameplay is in color.

In general, Trek to Yomi’s black and white is not merely a filter, but an artistic style choice.

As a game that tells the samurai story, it’s sad that the minus point of Trek to Yomi is… sword fights.

Starting with a limited number of moves, players will be able to unlock more moves by summoning miniboss along the way.

However, most of these unlockable moves don’t help.

There is a skill, the time to perform is too long, and before the combo has been completed, the enemy will fight back. If there is a skill, the condition to perform does not happen often, making the player forget its existence.

The result of this is that the player only has 3-4 combos that are useful for most of the game.

The moves also failed to show the strength of a swordsman. Sometimes the writer can see that his sword strokes have clearly touched the enemy, but they still stand there, unresponsive.

There are even enemies that can attack while the I… am doing combo!

The game also has a parry function when we press the defense button at the right time. However, this function is poorly implemented, with the moment to parry difficult to determine, perhaps even a bit haphazard.

Once we have “parry” the enemy’s attack, the feeling is not “high”, because the time the enemy staggers, the opening for us to attack is too short.

In addition, some techniques have a rather confusing “input” way, they seem to only receive buttons from the player within a certain time frame, pressing too fast can’t work, and too slow can’t work.

Using the word “seems”, that’s because the game doesn’t mention this in the skill guide. This leads to many techniques that are difficult to execute in a combat situation.

The last minus point is the dodging mechanism.

Because it’s a side-scrolling game, Trek to Yomi allows us to dodge attacks by… flipping behind the enemy!

However, for some reason, some enemies can flip, while some enemies won’t, leading to the player being like flipping into a stone wall, then getting up and eating a kick in the face!

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Trek to Yomi Ultimate Edition: Buy it now

Trek to Yomi: Buy it now

Trek to Yomi: Buy it now

Trek to Yomi Ultimate Edition: Buy it now