Daikatana: Difference between revisions

Players, naturally, disagree as to whether the game merely failed to live up to the insane hype, was picked on ''because'' of the insane hype, or was genuinely terrible. Either way, most agree that the marketing campaign was rather arrogant and practically begging for John Romero to be knocked down a few notches.

 

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Most of your arsenal, though "awesome" might be stretching it a tad. Just in the first section alone, you have a basic gun that ricochets off walls, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|usually straight back at you]], a shotgun that fires all six shots with each trigger pull, not simultaneously, but ''consecutively'', and a C-4 launcher with a blast radius only slightly less than its maximum effective range. Right there you have two weapons that you can easily kill yourself with, and one that forces you to either waste ammunition or just stand out in the open while it gradually empties itself. ''Who would make guns like these?''

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Mikiko tries to seize the Daikatana for herself at the end of the game.}}

* [[Foreign Language Title]]: Mind you, [[Did Not Do the Research|not]] ''[[As Long as It Sounds Foreign|correct]]'' foreign language. The characters on the box are okay, and can be pronounced "dai" and "katana" individually, but when characters are combined together, they can have different pronunciations. In this case, the overall word would be pronounced "daitō". The developers [[Gratuitous Japanese|are not alone in using the word]], of course.

* [[Gameplay Ally Immortality]]: Oh so painfully absent. Notable because a [[Good Bad Bugs|glitched]] cheat allows the player to enable it. At which point the game starts being kinda ''fun''...

* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: In addition to the game's title, just about the name of every main character who isn't Superfly Johnson. It seems that Romero simply picked whatever cliched Japanese name or word came to his mind for his characters. The main character's family name ''could'' be seen as a tribute to [[Shigeru Miyamoto]].

* [[I Meant to Do That]]: See [[Nintendo Hard]].

* [[Ludicrous Gibs]]: Gratuitous grand-scale dismemberment all around, even when it shouldn't happen, like [[Everything Trying to Kill You|getting sandwiched by a free-swinging door]].

{{quote|'''John Romero:''' It was not meant to be a beginner's FPS but rather an expert FPS that required more than just the player hopping around and thinking only of themselves like most other FPS's - ''Daikatana'' required you to also help your sidekicks survive the ordeal alongside you. This new play mechanic threw many people off the game because it was too difficult.}}

* [[Obvious Beta]]: The game is riddled with bugs, ''especially'' the co-op mode (an early highlight in the [[Let's Play]] by Proteus4994 and Suspicious involves their needing to noclip through a door that was supposed to open in the starting cutscene but didn't because cutscenes are disabled in co-op. [[Epic Fail|This is the second level in the game.]]).

 

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