Rain Blood Chronicles: Mirage Reviews

Interesting game, and something different from the usual indie offerings. The controls can be a little awkward at first, but they aren't too bad (and fortunatly you can customize them). I find a game controler works better than a keyboard for this game. Gameplay wise, this is more or less a side scrolling beat'em up brawler.

Engrish translation? Check. Pretty nice soundtrack? Check. Fancy slashing combo system with diversity of two characters? Check. If you want a game with fun combat and unnecessarily hard platforming, this might be a game for you.

Incredibly rigid controls and character animations; you will have to manually setup bindings if want to use a controller. The menu only works with mouse for some reason. Dialog text is incredibly slow in direct contrast with some tutorial text that wont be on screen for one whole second. Had long wanted to play this game because of the trailer but ended up incredibly disappointed. The image where swords seem to be clashing with an enemy is an animation instead of a mechanic (that I could find). That same character has an in-game attack that pins you without any means to escape and takes like one third of your life in start contrast to what I initially thought this game would provide in terms of attack and defense

Chinese 2D Devil May Cry. Great game all around, minus the 70s Kung Fu movie translation.

This game is simply amazing. Beautiful art design, blood-pumping soundtrack, deep battle system, replayability. It's like Castlevania + Devil May Cry + Chinese Wuxia films. Definitely worth buying!

Solid beatemup game. The very beginning is misleading with the seemingly low quality because the game is actually very well put together. Decently challenging, but heavily rewards skillful play. Missions are longer than they should be for the DMC-style ability unlock system, and achievements don't seem to be working correctly, but I fully recommend this super cool chinese game of killing mans.

Advertised as local co-op, local co-op not available until after beating the main game. Local co-op does not involve main story at all and is simply boss rush and one other mode.

I consider this game it bit of a hidden gem, I mean, it's one those games that gets buried in over time, you're not even aware it's there and I just happened to stubble onto this game by chance and it has been highly enjoyable with some lovely sprites. It's your 2D hack and slash game with an upgrading system and something of a DMC like combat style, in the sense that you learn more moves and find ways to use to rack up your combat rating, but instead of getting different weapons you have two unique characters with their own play styles which I like to think of as Soul is more for a casual style and Shang for a more advanced style of play, but it doesn't matter since you swap between them on the fly. The game might have some minor problems, say like the achievements won't unlock unless you manually install the patch but it's definitely worth giving this game ago.

Developed by a group of chinese developers. This is one of those very much underrated game out there. Maybe coz it is developed by a relatively unknown company that not much people is playing it. But it is definitely one of the best hack n slash game. You can use two different characters with totally two different skill sets. Certain boss are best defeated by one of the characters and you are allowed to switch to the one during in game fighting. Definitely highly recommended. A pity developers bail out from creating part 2 due to lack of sales ... Great game.

Basically it's a side-scrolling Devil May Cry. It features 2 characters with 2 distinct combat styles (think of Dante and Vergil; in fact, Shang could be Vergil’s distant cousin from China — his Kee swords bear great resemblance to Summoned Swords), style-based combat system, and great visuals. Sadly, translation is atrocious, there are many typos and in some instances English text doesn't even remotely correspond to Chinese audio. Also, story is somewhat basic and clichéd. But the gameplay is great, combat is satisfying, so if you're a fan of hack and slash games (like me), Mirage is a must have. If you're not, well, at least give it a try. P.S. Oh, and don't be fooled by “Local co-op” label on Steam — Mirage has only “Duel” mode available from the start. In order to unlock “Boss Rush” and “Tower” (Bloody Palace) modes you have to finish the story first. There's no co-op for story mode…