Started up Maken Shao today, and it's a very odd update to Maken X. They made the camera first-person to third-person, sure, but there are a lot of other changes, some weird, some bad, some good.
Levels having mid-level save points is very very good.
Replacing the swastikas with the Japanese character for "nothing" 無, very odd.
Replacing the soul level system barring your taking over new bodies to paying for each possession with your points you earn by playing well, outright worse because now if you're trying out different characters you gotta grind for it instead of just swapping between whomever as long as you're the right level.
Then there's also just the fact that the levels and enemies quite often just feel like they were not designed to be played in third-person, as they weren't.
I'm gonna have to finish it tomorrow, but it's a very odd experience given what I remember of the original
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