So enemies can, and do, move out of the way while you are selecting your action. In addition to the previously noted tank controls and fixed camera (which frequently allows enemies to attack you from blind spots), the game's mechanism for accessing special abilities requires you to pull up a reel with a list of moves, then scroll through them and make your selection while the action on the screen continues at a slowed pace. There's just something horrifically appealing about how bad it is in almost every conceivable way." This is as good a summation of the game and it's appeal as I can find anywhere.īecause, without question, God Hand is fundamentally broken and, as I said, unfinished. PlayStation Magazine opined, " God Hand is a terrible, terrible game, yet I can't stop playing it. Per Wikipedia, the game's review in the November, 2006 Official U.S. The game features the kind of innovation that Clover was known for, but lacks the polish that was also a trademark in their earlier games. God Hand's production was caught up in this internal struggle (the studio was closed immediately following the game's North American release), and I view the game as something of an "unfinished symphony" as a result. Their mandate was to develop new intellectual properties for Capcom, but overall low sales numbers resulted in Clover being shut down and most of the employees being reabsorbed into Capcom.
God Hand was the final production from Clover Studio, a semi-autonomous group of Capcom employees responsible for Viewtiful Joe and the critical darling Okami. I imagine many players did not last more than 15 minutes before throwing in the towel, which is a shame, as like the other games in this series, God Hand is a game with more than might meet the eye at first glance.īefore we can really talk about the game, however, we must first take a look at the studio that created it. The backgrounds are hideously unfinished in tones of gray and brown, and despite being a third-person brawler, the game saddles the player with tank controls for movement and an extremely limited field of vision, fixing the camera directly behind the player character. God Hand (2006), on the other hand, so to speak, has overwhelmingly negative first impressions. There was a lot to like out of the gate, before frustrations with some of the game's more novel design choices might lead a player to abandon the game.
In the previous installment of my weird games series, I discussed Baten Kaitos, beginning with the overall positive first impression that game left on me.
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