Customer Reviews

Saint

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Two things are good about this game. The art direction and the music. The game engine is bad and has horribly outdated SNES mode 7 mini stages when the characters travel to the next battlefield.
The developers give you a large lifebar to balance out the awkward mash of bullets regular enemies spit. The game is boring rather than challengeing though. And if you buy it your really just being a sucker for anything 2D, its really shallow with only one button to fire, there is no reason to play saint.

My wife bought me this game for Christmas from the discount pile (I was with her). We both thought, "Hey, this game's pretty cheap, and it's a Wii game, so it can't be THAT bad." Man were we wrong.

First off, I loved reading plot exposition going across the screen TEN YEARS AGO. Even the games we got our children, while having script going across the screen, included voice overs. Add that to the fact that the exposition was set to still frame pictures and you start thinking, "Oh no. What have I bought?"

Then, the game starts and all hope of an even passable fun time go right out the window. I haven't played a side-scrolling shooter game since Mega-Man 1. Even the other Mega-Man games allowed more movement. Wait, I take that back. Mega-Man 1 allowed you to pick the world to visit. Saint doesn't. So, it's more comparable to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. FROM THE ORIGINAL NES!!!

Now, graphics. I haven't seen these level of graphics since the original NES. They were fine 20 years ago, but given the possibilities of the Wii console, this game was wildly disappointing. It looked exactly like a pixalated NES game. Eight bit graphics. Handled the same too. Turn the controls sideways and play with the old controller.

I could see this game being sold over the Wii channel for a buck or two at the most. But the price listed above is WAY too much. If you want to see how bad it is, borrow it from a friend who didn't do their research in advance, like me. You'll save yourself a lot of grief and money.

By the way, played for about five minutes before I hung it up.

P.S. The only reason I gave this game one star was to get this rating posted. Apparently Amazon doesn't think it sells zero-star items. :D

So this game, after seeing it in the bargin bin everywhere--Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and several other places, I decided to order it from Amazon and see just why it is constantly being sold so cheap. I read the reviews for it and I didn't really want to make any judgments until I got a chance to actually play it.

The conclusion is that 1 star is too much for this game... I couldn't believe I actually paid someone to ship the game to me... I played from one end to the other in one sitting, hoping for the game to show me something that I wouldn't have seen in a game from the early 90s. But it never did. All of the levels looked alike and all of the gameplay felt the same. I feel like I was back being a little kid sitting in an arcade trying to put in enough tokens to finish a stupid game that I didn't even like, but just finished anyway because it was there. That was exactly how I felt with this game.

Was this game actually made and released in the latter half of the last decade? I suppose so. I can't believe they thought they could actually sell a game like this...