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That said while trying to balance its creative and useful aspects, the game still requires you to put up with annoyances.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.noobfeed.com\u002Freviews\u002Fthe-spirit-of-the-samurai-review","2025-01-10","69",69,{"id":97,"author":98,"outlet":101,"summary":106,"review_url":107,"review_date":108,"original_score":49,"normalized_score":50},102108,{"id":99,"name":100},9004,"Tom Quirk",{"id":102,"logo":103,"name":104,"website_url":105,"score_format":45},140,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fcheckpoint-gaming.jpg","Checkpoint Gaming","https:\u002F\u002Fcheckpointgaming.net\u002F","The Spirit of the Samurai is a samurai action game developed by Digital Mind Games which nails its particularly eye-catching animation style while not being all that fun as a game. Designed to emulate jerky practical stop-motion animation used in many classic films such as Jason and the Argonauts, Robocop and The Nightmare Before Christmas, it achieves it quite spectacularly, while also demonstrating how such a style becomes something of a hindrance when you are trying to actually control a c...","https:\u002F\u002Fcheckpointgaming.net\u002Freviews\u002F2024\u002F12\u002Fthe-spirit-of-the-samurai-review-stop-motion-style-over-substance\u002F","2024-12-16",5,0,[21],[26],[]]