Showing posts with label Ultimate Cosmo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ultimate Cosmo. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo (PSP)

I’m going to admit right off the bat that I’m not familiar with the Saint Seiya franchise. I read a little bit of the Lost Canvas manga and I’m familiar with the premise, but I’m not well-versed on the specifics. I had a copy of Saint Seiya: The Hades for the PS2, so that will be my only point of comparison when assessing the PSP fighting game Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo. I apologize in advance if I miss out or am mistaken on something that an anime episode or manga chapter should have clarified.

Anyway, I only have the Japanese release of Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo so I had to do a little bit of exploring and trial and error before I was able to navigate the game. There are minimal English words (the “VS” and “CPU” words will be extremely helpful here) so this won’t be a pick up and play title unless you can read Japanese. Fortunately, this is a fighting game so you won’t need to bother with the story. Once you learn how to navigate the menu, you’ll be able to play your money’s worth out of the game.

Visually, Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo is one of the many games on the PSP that managed to look gorgeous even if compared with current gen console games, owing to the fact that it uses cel-shading, which age well compared to standard textured polygons. The characters look sharp and the backgrounds are crisp and colorful. You will be forgiven if you mistook the game as 2D sprite-based. Sound is also decent and crisp, although the sound of grunts and thuds can be repetitive at times.