Review: Aragami (PS4)

Summoned from the dead by Yamiko, a young noble woman in peril, you must use your supernatural skills to cut a path through the darkness and deliver her to safety. Travel together through the ancient and sacred city unearthing memories of a vanished past and casting light on the strange connection between you and your mysterious summoner.

Pros:

• Cool cell shaded graphics.
• 8.74GB download size.
• V-Sync option.
• FOV slider.
• Opening tutorial with a help section on hand.
• Can invert controls.
• Full Platinum trophy.
• Stealth action puzzler game play. Use the shadows to leap between the darkness and take out or avoid enemy encounters.
• Cape/hood feature where it has a design on it that fills up when you have charge and able to jump between shadows, It also has icons to show how many ability uses you have. Its a cool feature that was first used in Journey with the scarf.
• Scrolls can be found in levels and are used to unlock and upgrade new abilities like make dead bodies disapear or decoy to name but a few of the many abilities you can get.
• Checkpoints throughout the level.
• Can play the game how you want, Take enemies out or avoid them its up to you. Levels are big enough where you can take your own routes.
• Earn points by kills, Disposing of bodies and finishing levels.
• Seals: Awarded at the end of the level you can earn up to 3 and they are given for finishing the level and hitting the criteria. The 3 seals are finish a level without being detected, Killing everyone and killing no one.
• Can replay levels, Even doing so without messing up your story run through as its in a separate section.
• Rewarding experience.
• Oozing in atmosphere and really scratches the Tenchu itch.
• Decent loading times.
• Loading screens have tips on them.
• Online co-op with join/host options and a invite and private option.
• Loads of replay ability.
• Can skip cut scenes.
• Decent AI behaviour for the most part, They can investigate noises and go on alert status and hunt for you.

Cons:

• Slight stutter when entering a cut scene.
• Few issues with screen tearing in built up areas.
• Shadow leaping is awkward at first and has a slight learning curve especially with ledges.
• AI line of sight is a bit messed up with some able to see further than others.
• Difficulty spikes.
• Enemies can sometimes go on alert on an already found corpse.
• Aiming shadow leap is clumsy.
• Slow starter in terms of abilities.
• Make noise ability AOE seems a bit on the large side.
• Random glitches like clipping and scenery popping in and out.
• The show objective button spins the camera but its a short glance and disorientates more than it helps.
• Stealth animations are long.
• Looking around corners ad general observation stuff is hard due to pop in or the way in which the camera works.