Devilman (2000, PS1)

Who would have believed they would have released a Devilman video game? Well, they did. Released by Bandai in 2000. *I had to buy a Japanese PS1 to play 10 anime games I bought dirt cheap off yahoo Japan. You can buy a used PS1 from gameshops for like $50 now, but for this NTSC-J PS1, with shipping, I payed close to $210!

Probably what you're wondering is, what Siren/Silene/The Demon Bird will look like in the game... what will the fight-in-flight between her and Akira look like? Well, Silene in the manga and 1990 anime is naked-you can see her jugs, and white pussy hair, right? In the past there has been numerous attempts to 'censor' Silene. On the Manga Video release of Devilman VOL.2, Silene is covered in white feathers/fur from head to toe. There's also one Go Nagai acrylic Devilman paintin in which her entire body is covered in white feathers also. So what does the fight scene look like? Well it doesn't look like anything, because you don't get to fight Silene. The final boss is an amalgamation of Agwell, Ghelmar, and Jinmen... with, I think Jinmen as the dominant consiousness. After that boss is defeated, the creidts roll, and you get to play the game from the start again, only difference is, you play as the 'TV version' of Akira, and not the manga one again. I've heard that if you follow the game through to the end, you get to battle with the TV version of Silene. But why heck would I wanna replay the game just for that? Unless the game was so great I wanted to go at it again (like Metal Gear Solid), but it's not! The once is enough is always enough for me with average games. Especially average PS1 games- there ain;t alot of people who like retro games, especially shakey retro 32 bit games, but so long as they're great games, I don't mind playing em- Die Hard Trilodgy, Resident Evil 2 & 3, etc.

Devilman is a very average game, with very average gameplay involved. I actually think some of he 3D backgrounds look better than the ones from Silent Hill (that looked awful for a 1999 game... the graphics from Silent Hill looked more like 1996 graphics). The character models in Devilman look bad for a game released in 2000 also- I imagine the game would have been under developent for a few years- judging from the aesthetics of the character models, it may have been as early as late 1997.

For me the hardest part of the game was tapping the buttons fast enough to transform into Devilman for the first time- your ceased by a badly sculpted demon, and to stop yourself becoming demon chow (and turnin into Devilman for the first time), you have to slam down triangle, circle, square, and X buttons as fast as humanely possible. It took me 2 or 3 weeks to pass this point. After then, the game was pretty much a walkthrough, and I think I completed it in 8 days or whatever.

My rating: 6.2/10