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The most underrated game...You're not playing!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, let me tell you about Maken X. It's truly a fantastic game. It contains a unique experience of gameplay I've never seen in any video game. You can play different awesome characters in the game by a powerful sword. There's also a retro
super cool Techno soundtrack which is pretty decent. The images and and scenery are unforgetable. It has a Doom like feel to it. Some of the acting is a little nervey, but still tolerable. It's games like this that make Dreamcast worth having. Dreamcast is still a great and powerful

system. In fact it's alot better than these new games that are out now that are considered Great! This game didn't get alot of attention, but It starts off good and ends up great! If you still have a Dreamcast, put Maken X in your collection.

Try before you buy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... Maken X truly is is a mixed bag. There are some intriguing gameplay elements (first person shooter with a sword, and the ability to Brainjack), and the game is fun at first, but eventually Maken X gets boring, repetitive, and undeniably frustrating (not to mention the horrendous voice acting). However, Maken X is not a bad game whatsoever, it's just more of an aquired taste. It's not a bad pickup at a cheap price, but try it before you lay down your hard earned cash for it.

A moderately fun game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun to play...at first and then after awhile it gets very boring and frustrating. I did like the close up action and having to fight off an enemy thats right in your face. I bought this game after reading reviews saying how good it was,I perhaps was a little hasty. The brainjacking feature makes this game truly unique. Rent this game first,you will be glad you did.

Great Music!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am not a big fan of corridor shooters. In fact, I kinda can't stand them! No matter the system, the frame rate is always lousy; anything but smooth! Thank the powers that be for ATLUS, the wonderful people who brought us the 'Persona' games, for Maken X! Unconventional, unusual, exotic, eerie, creepy, haunting, and yet strangely intriguing are just a few words and phrases one can attach to this prime specimen of Dreamcast graphics. The characters designs and costuming are relatively typical of ATLUS, the human characters looking like death-metal roadies, and the villains looking like a Chinese interpretive dance troop (especially those dragon-guys, who wouldn't want a get-up like that?). The Music is also splendid, combining techno, rock, drum&bass, and east-Indian chanting. (see my reviews of the soundtrack!) The soundtrack can be bought separately on imported CD (a pretty penny but worth every pretty penny).

Oh Dear God Help!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 16
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is so very, very, very, very, very, very, boring and quite stupid!

A Surprise Favorite

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I recently picked up Maken X, intrigued by the unique character art and generally good (though rarely great) reviews of the game. It has quickly become one of my favorite "First-Person Shooters", right next to Half-Life and the old Doom.

Maken X melds a relatively deep (if sometimes badly translated) storyline and unique emphasis on close-range attacks with Dreamcast-caliber graphics and impressively "whacked" artwork and characters.

Even experienced players will be challenged on later levels. Better yet, even when finished, you're not really so...the game has multiple branching paths which sometimes make a huge difference. I've finished it once and immediately started a fresh game--not only have some storyline elements been modified, but two new brainjack characters have shown up.

"Brainjack"? Yes, you "brainjack" characters to take over their bodies and weapons (sometimes one and the same). A different way of aquiring more weapons, but much more interesting than "shotgun <> railgun". And if only using close-range swords and such sounds limited, it is not. You can actually charge up weapons for different long-range (limited use) attacks ranging from puppets laden with explosive, to stomach parasites (!), to quad flying discs, all depending on what character you have. Heck, just seeing a new whacked-out sword design waving in your hand is interesting enough.

Highly recommended, especially to those like me annoyed by the lack of story elements and single-player fun in Quake III and other new FPS's.

The best of the best of the best!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tons of characters to find in the game. All sorts of weapons and special attacks. You have to fight against a hord of mutated ninjas and tons of bosses that are playable like Hakke Shaja, some mafia guy, U.S. president( the best ), a lightning fast girl,ect.

An unbelieveable game and its one of the best DC games out there.

WEAK AND REPETITIVE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I read and heard things about the campy, demented Maken X,I was tempted to buy it. Wisely I chose to rent instead. ThankGod. The game isn't the worst ever made, but buying Maken X is not a whole lot better than just flushing money down the toilet. You have only one move, and the game consists of madly hacking at anything that you see, while trying to dodge a plethora or projectile attacks, which is tough (and not in a good way) in the game's restricting 1st person viewpoint. And then there's the plot...Oh God...dont even ask. In between levels, you are greeted with long, mind numbing cutscenes (horrendous voice acting included) that have to do with Maken, a machine capable of destroying people's "psi" (don't ask me...maybe their souls or their brain cells?), leaving them as vegetables. This is where the heavily vaunted "brainjacking" feature, which allows you to possess different characters using Maken as a convoy. In reality, this amounts to coming across a character every 1 or 2 levels that you pretty much have to possess in order to survive. The only point of this is to gain a more powerful body, unfortunately there is no difference in gameplay except for the fact that your weapon changes slightly (one cahracter has a sword, the next character has a longer sword, the next character has two swords, the next charcter has a staff that looks like a sword, etc.) If anyone reading this review has played the game Messiah, maybe you can relate to the way i felt. Messiah succeded in giving you an environment of massive freedom where anything organic was fair game for possession. That made it all the more restricting to play a game with practically no freedom or diversity of gameplay (ONE move! ), a claustrophobic 1st person view (some weapons take up nearly half the screen, so it will probably be tough going for most),and a dumb plot. If you're lookin for possessive gameplay, give Messiah a go.

DISSAPOINTMENT

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was a huge letdown. When I heard about this game's "brainjacking" technology, I was ready for a futuristic romp similar to the extremely fun Messiah. What I got was a repetitive hack job with a convoluted plot and seriously screwed up dubbing. YAWN!

A TERRIBLE BORE!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is basically a boring, lamer version of DOOM. In the first person, you walk around with a sword and hack at enemies. Blah, blah, blah. I played this game for a whole 15 minutes, turned it off, and knew I would never play it again.

Games for the DreamCast need to strive for something better than mediocre. This one isn't even that.

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