A Strategic and Bloody Puzzle Adventure

A Way to Slay is a puzzle video game that involves strategy and action and adventure aspects as well. This game throws you right into the middle of a conflict among samurais, knights, pirates and today’s gangsters while making you to use your brain to subdue your foes in the most gruesome manner possible. It is not simply going on a brutal rampage for the sheer joy of chopping as many heads off as humanly possible; it is about strategy, strategy and more strategy to get past each stage.

On this factor, A Way to Slay is uniquely powerful and that is mainly because of its simplicity. This is an arcade-style game where the whole idea of the gameplay is drawn upon the idea of tapping on the screen – both for movement and for an attack. However, nicely said; it is important to note that it is not easy to master the game despite such a simplified control mechanism. Every level demands a lot of planning and planning since the enemies are placed in such a manner to ensure that movements are not easy. Often, one gets killed very fast for instance, if you step on the wrong tile, something that makes it very fulfilling when you finally beat a level.

This element is also creativity crowned; regarding the look of the image, it is also outstanding. The game employs a simple yet colorful graphics scheme where the blood filled fights are all the more distinctive. When you do a perfect kill the screen slows down which I believe enhances the cinematic experience of the game and every win is satisfying. The fact that the enemies are of different types and have different themes in various levels also adds a new twist in the game since one has to change tactics.

Although the painting of a game image was impressive, this game’s difficulty level can be discouraging to many. Occasionally, some levels may seem slightly difficult to overcome, which increases as the games progresses. Furthermore, the game is graphic intensive and vibrant but the repetitiveness of the game gets boring after some time.

In general, A Way to Slay is an interesting blend of both tactics and combat. Always favoured by the strategic minds, then again one has to invest lots of time on it and the rewards are only for the selected few. In case you enjoy playing turn-based stratagy titles with a spoonful of gore and violence this game might be of your liking.