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Furi is sure to make your adrenaline rise at least once, with formidable bosses and a fantastic story, each moment of the game -- whether it be narrative or combat -- drives you towards the ending of the game that you choose. You don't need to be a dueling master -- failing in Furi is part of the fun as each lost life means that you're one step closer to understanding the mechanics and therefore one step closer to victory. Simply put, if you can get past the difficulty and see the beauty behind it, you're sure to have a...
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It’s an experience worth the price of admission at $20, but there’s a part of me that wishes there was more exploration, more “trash mob” fights between the bosses, and more to do altogether. As an example of boss fights at their finest, Furi is a great game. And when it was over, I felt like I’d achieved something, even on easy mode. I suppose the reason I’m a little disappointed in the game is that it left me wanting more and that’s a good thing. Furi is out today, January 11t...
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Furi is a surprisingly deep indie experience. Seeping from its pores with aesthetic and simple yet overwhelmingly brutal gameplay.
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Furi isn’t exactly perfect, but with its unique visual and audio design, there’s plenty to like. Being July’s PS Plus game, it’s a damn fine addition to your collection, but at £18.99 I feel it might be a bit steep; there’s just not enough to offer good value for the player. That said, if you’re someone who enjoys boss battling in an impressively designed game than perhaps that seems a fair price to you. Either way, I enjoyed playing and completing it in about the five hours I did on my first run.
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Few games boast the audacious style of Furi. The wildly colorful visuals and retro/sci-fi soundtrack immediately establish a world like no other, grabbing you and refusing to let go. Like a digital pied piper, Furi brought a steady stream of intrigued coworkers to my desk to watch over my shoulder while I played. Once they got a sense of the gameplay, however, they didn't stick around long. While Furi has some substance behind its style, the unforgiving difficulty takes its toll.
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There’s definitely fun to be had in Furi’s fast and frenzied battles against a colorful cast of quirky boss characters. While it finds its strongest moments in its rewardingly rhythmic, precision-based one-on-one duels, an unwelcome level of tedium and occasionally cheap sequences — made even more frustrating by janky mechanics — keep the action from being as consistently strong as it is visually stylish.
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Still, it's hard to fault a developer too much for trying to create difficulties that appeal to both casual and hardcore gamers. It just feels as though Furi could have found a way to do it without creating two very different extremes and playing experiences. That, a few annoying and frustrating bosses, and the lack of keyboard and mouse support on the PC version of the game, prevents Furi from becoming an indie luminary like Enter the Gungeon. Gamers looking for a challenge, a beautiful world and musical score, and some truly memorable bosses will still be pleased at what...
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A challenging mashup of bullet hell and swordplay, Furi is one of 2016’s biggest surprises.
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Furi is good. Its fighting may occasionally lean on luck over skill, but learning a boss’ attack patterns and finally defeating them is a sweet sensation to enjoy. It’s beautiful to look at, has a pulsing, driving score underlying all of its action, and incorporates ideas of mythology wonderfully into a neat package. It’s unfortunate there’s little more to its seemingly robust world than occasional interactions and long, contemplative walks in between fights, because a more built-up lore surrounding its characters would have helped make it into something to be remembered.
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The Instant Game Collection has been filled with pleasant surprises during the PlayStation 4’s run so far. We’ve had flawed yet interesting titles like Contrast, and great multiplayer titles such as Dead Star and Rocket League. The latest game to launch on the service is The Game Bakers’ Furi, a twin stick shooter that throws in sword combat for an added oomph.
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Some of the boss designs feel uneven or underdeveloped, and the dialogue misses about as often as it lands, but when Furi is good, it’s real good. I am surprised by how well its fusion of action and shooting works. Just make sure you have the patience necessary see the game through to the end.
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As the first title from The Game Bakers to grace the Playstation and PC, Furi is a hearty distillation of the character action genre into the simplest formula imaginable: non-stop boss battles. With character designs composed by Takashi Okazaki of Afro Samurai fame, the story follows a silent protagonist that's let loose by a talkative gentleman wearing a bunny mask (who might remind some of Ninja Ninja, also from Afro Samurai) to escape his jail confinement and return to the free world, slashing apart anyone that stands between them and freedom.
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Furi is one of the most impressive releases of 2016, raising the bar for several genres just a little bit higher. The gameplay is tight, the soundtrack is pumping, and every boss has such an amazingly unique flair. If you have Ps+ then you're going to be treated to one of the best 'straight to PS+' releases since Rocket League, and if you don't then the game is well worth every penny.
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Boss battles are the highlight of most great games. Therefore, why not make an adventure that primarily consists of them? Furi does just that and it does it well so unsheathe your blade and let's slash away!
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Furi is a game for fans of wicked-fast action and cruel difficulty. Jarringly chaotic shooting sections can feel punishingly arbitrary compared to the precise and focused melee combat, and having to replay entire twenty-minute segments can get frustrating, but in the end, I cannot deny that I felt a satisfying sense of accomplishment. Add to that a visual and audio flair all its own and you have a title more than worth revisiting, if only for the satisfaction of throwing your opponent to the ground after a perfectly-timed parry.
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Furi has a lot of great things going for it. Intriguing character designs from famed Afro Samurai creator Takashi Okazaki, licensed electronic music from the likes of Carpenter Brut, and a super responsive, intense combat system combine to create something unique and sometimes brilliant – but as a whole, the game doesn't quite come together as well as it should.
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