Welcome to what could be easily described as an anime fans wet dream. Asura's Wrath takes you on a rage filled journey for vengeance over the course of 12,500 years. You were once one of the Eight Governor Generals tasked with defending Earth against a mighty and evil force called the Gohma which are all amusingly portrayed as things as small as red and black gorillas to mighty mega beasts like a giant turtle with a cobras head. Upon the completion of a massive battle, you are summoned to the Emperors chambers only to find the "Spark", if you will, that ignites the fire within you. Betrayed by the other 7 Generals whom murder your beloved wife and kidnap your daughter you are defeated by Deus, the strongest of the 7, and vanquished from this plain for 12,000 years. You awake, clinging to a pillar in a land referred to as Naraka. Greeted by a Golden Spider you are informed of the time that has passed and regain your memories and the rage inside of you burns even brighter. You emerge back on earth to discover your former comrades are now referring to themselves as the Seven Deities and are using your daughters power to amplify their own to bring about what they call "The Great Rebirth". From here you will battle your way through hordes of Gohma and the Deities themselves to win back your daughter and bring about peace to the world and within yourself.

True to the nature of Japanese video games, CAPCOM has kept the scoring structure at the end of each level with S being the highest score achievable. Asura's Wrath, in my eyes, is like an interactive anime movie. The game will take you around 6 hours to complete but the total play time could only be around 2 hours. While it does contain many videos within it you are still prompted to press buttons in order to avoid attacks and deal damage during the cut-scenes making it impossible to just sit back and watch as you never know when you will be tasked to press something. Being a fan on anime myself I found Asura's Wrath highly enjoyable with many easy to get achievements within it. Unable to put the controller down I found even the simplest of battles entertaining. Many of the gameplay instances will seem to carry on forever until you fill a meter at the top of the scene called the "Burst" meter. This is basically the meter you have to fill in order to progress in the story, so it is all determined on how fast you can deal out attacks on enemies as to how fast you can progress through the story.

Asura's Wrath is based on an episodic structure which can make it more enjoyable to those that like to pace things out. They may finish an episode, which in turn is roughly the same length as a normal anime episode on TV, and wish to wait till the next day to complete another. Playing it like this can make the game last longer and ultimately bring more enjoyment out of it. For the achievement hunters there are a total of 45 to get in here and many are simply just finishing episodes or interrupting dialogue within the game, many more I'm unsure of as it has a dramatic amount of secret achievements. The bad thing with this is that the game doesn't offer much in the way of replay value unless you wish to do it all again on a harder difficulty and achieve higher scores to unlock the "True ending".

Now to talk about the bad things in Asura's Wrath, and unfortunately there are a few. To be honest, I have played DLC on other games that have a longer storyline and replay value than Asura's Wrath. The story in itself is amazing don't get me wrong, but I couldn't justify paying the same amount for it as for instance Skyrim at the game shop. If I could make a recommendation it would be to either borrow it from a friend to play the story or hire it from your local video store. Capcom games in the past have and still hold a true place within me but unfortunately Asura's Wrath will not be one of those games.

Unfortunately today I will be giving Asura's Wrath 2/5.