When the king is assassinated, the conspirators
frame the princess Alicia for his murder. Sensing
imminent imprisonment, Alicia banishes herself from
the kingdom and is on the lam. Fate steps in however
and she encounters the Devil during a trek through
the Black Forest. Alicia makes a pact with evil
incarnate where she procures the tools for revenge
in exchange for the souls of the enemies she kills.
Although Alicia
possesses no killing skills of her own, she is armed
with traps which she sets and then lures
unsuspecting enemies into. The ceiling, the floor,
and the walls are all available for setting traps
which may be triggered by wayward victims. Solo
traps send pursuers to their deaths by sudden
immolation, impalement, crushing force, or smashing
trajectory. Death and damage incidents are
captured by a versatile camera which zooms in from
different directions to give bloodthirsty gamers a
close view of the carnage.
Although single traps do
the job, combo traps or dark illusions are the draw in Kagero 2. For
example, one combo trap consists of knocking a
victim into a cannon which then shoots... and
splatters him against the ceiling. He then falls to
the ground, quite dead. There's one particularly
wicked trap where an unsuspecting enemy is bounced
onto a massive wall clock and impaled. While still
alive and stirring, the hands of the timepiece then
come together to snip apart
the hapless foe. There's another trap which involves
chains that would make Pinhead of Hellraiser fame
proud. Many of the combo traps are elaborate affairs
and run their course for 5-10 seconds. |
