From: here@fishie.com   
      
   I wanted to check the game out myself and picked it up last week.   
   Played around with it for about an hour or two the first night and loved   
   it.  The controls felt responsive, the camera wasn't a problem.  You   
   have to play a little defense with blocking and side stepping certain   
   attacks ~ but it played pretty cool.  Also they did a good job making it   
   feel like Golden Axe in 3D.  I thought they did a really good job with it.   
      
   Unfortunately for me, I'm not really good at harder action games.  I   
   usually play at night when I'm tired and just want to relax some ~ and   
   as I was getting farther into the game, it was getting tougher and   
   tougher.  I did fine with up to a few enemies at a time but after   
   awhile, I was just restarting after dying too often to enjoy it.   
      
   If you don't mind working at it a bit (or just don't suck as bad as I   
   do) I think there's a good barbarianish game in there to enjoy.   
      
      
   Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   > Geez. Six new Sega titles in as many weeks and not a peep about it here.   
   > No closet Dinosaur Kings fans in the house then? :)   
   >   
   > Over on UGVM, I've been pretty enthusiastic about picking up Golden Axe   
   > Beast Rider. The usual skepticism is in place, and the reviews are pretty   
   > uniform in declaring the game mediocre. Anybody here play it yet? For the   
   > record, I don't care much about multiplayer or having a choice of which   
   > character to play. If the overall impression is positive, I'm likely to   
   > pick up a launch copy just to feel good about supporting Sega.   
   >   
   > Apropos of nothing, I've been getting into a lot of the Corben-esque   
   > fantasy games lately. I just wrapped up Conan on the Xbox 360, and I've   
   > been spending time on and off with Barbarian, that Powerstone clone that   
   > hit the PS2 and the original Xbox. Sega's Viking also made an impression   
   > on me recently, although I haven't it played it since the day I bought it.   
   > Feels like Beast Rider fits right into the genre, but with better sex   
   > appeal. :)   
   >   
   > -KKC, reading Metacritic reviews of Beast Rider. "Adventures of Fiery Boob   
   > Lady" indeed. :)   
      
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