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A Fun, Challenging game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I first saw this game, the first thing that popped in the back of my mind (after reading the back) was that this looked a lot like Castlevania, only with a younger twist. After playing it I came to the conclusion that this game uses the Shaman King Licence, but is and amalgamation of Castlevania 2 Simons Quest (NES) and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow (GBA).

The story here is that a Villian named Magister has appeared and is tryign to ressurect a dead Shaman King so he can destroy the Shamans. As Yoh Asakura you travel around the country tryng to gather pages from a mystical book to stop him. Armed with your sword and Spirit Guardian Amidamaru you take on this dreadful challenge. The game play is for the most part go from one end of the level to the other ala Simons Quest. Where Aria of Sorrow comes in is that you collect souls to grow stronger, and the movements are much more in tune with current Castlevania.

There are problems with the game however.
1: despite all there is, the game is short (first time through, took me roughly 4 hours).
2: Difficulty is way to high. You do good amounts of damage to your foes, but they do even more to you. Expect a lot of kicking the bucket, even as a seasoned vetren.
3: The monsters in the game are very simmilar. Essentially there are lots of enemies, but most of them look the same, and when you encounter something different, it goes through and kills you (Golem anyone).

Despite the flaws the game is good. I definetly recomend it to anyone, especially if you need something to carry you over until the Next Castlevania hits on the Nintendo DS. Be warned though that the game is merciless, but fun.

At last! A Jump button AND a Kill button, in the same game! Thank Gawd!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

One of my objections to some of the recent fantasy-style games I've played is that the designers either give you a jump button OR a kill button, but rarely both. This results in a great many terrible games with awkward controls.

Maybe the GBA is a dying platform-- there don't seem to be as many decent games coming out these days, but Shaman King Master of Spirits is one of the few good ones. You travel around a map as Yoh Asakura, fighting monsters and collecting Spirits. The spirits give you different abilities, and can be assigned to the L and R triggers as soon as you have the appropriate item to give you that slot, so that you can keep your regular attack and pull off special moves (usually to get to one of the game's MANY difficult-to-reach places.

It's addictive. I don't particularly care about the manga, and I don't particularly care that it's a hybrid of a couple of the Castlevania games with a different set of skins, the game is flat-out FUN to play. The boss fights are challenging without being impossible, and the levels (for the most part) can be run backwards as well as forwards, which is important because you end up having to revisit levels to collect Spirits, using a newly acquired Spirit to get past a barrier you couldn't before, or slide through a gap, or super-jump. Whatever.

Go out and get this game. It's a Game Boy game, so it isn't necessarily very long, but it is longer than the other Shaman King game for GBA, and the other reviewers were right, it is merciless. Totally worth your money and your time.

Fantastic! ^_^

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm generally more of a Yu-Gi-Oh fan, but this game... is addicting. Not only did I buy it on sight when I found out about it, it actually took over my obsession with trying to beat YGO: Reshef Of Destruction. Trust me, that was extremely hard to do. It's very challenging (for me, at least. I'm still fairly new to playing video games) since there are so many different people and creatures to fight, and the traps are always a rude awakening if you haven't already been there and died. ^_^() Basically, it's all a trial-and-error thing, seeing what works best in that particular situation. But that's all I'm saying there ^_~ You'll have to figure the rest out for yourself.

Shaman King

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I got this game a little after Christmas what happened was I got grand theft auto advance and to be blunt it sucked hard. So I took it to eb games to trade it in and guess what game I got. That's right I got this game I fell in love with soon after I got it wich was five minutes. The game is fun and semi addictive.
It took me about a week to beat one file in normal mode. An I beat the game in hard mode in about a week or two. But overall the game is worth it even though sometimes it willllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll tick you off.

Shaman Mania!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy this game alot. You battle characters from the anime and manga like Toa Len and Bason, and Horo Horo and Corey. You could also use other spirits like Togogeroh and Mosuke to get past confusing but sometimes easy obstacles. After you defeat the opposing shaman you obtain there gardian ghost. You could also use the Budahkiri shockwave attack. Anyone who likes the anime and manga will love this wonderful game. FIVR STARS!!

a must buy for sk fans and sj fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutley brilliant i love it there are 54 levels in total it is difficult but fun you can use a bunch of spirits like bason lee bai long and much more this is the kind of game that you want to get if your looking for a long chalenging game especially for those manga readers id have to say i am the frickn biggest sk fan in the world so you might need a guide particulary the prima one so even if you dont read the manga buy this you wont regret it i would give this 1 million stars if i could!

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