Hack and slash games are pretty cool most of the time. Games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden exude excellent and often harsh difficulty levels, managing to piss you off enough to make you want to keep at it, just to beat the PS2/Xbox at its own game. Now, yeah, I suppose it could get boring if the style of combat is similar between the games (yeah, right), so why not add something different to the mix? Meet The Sword Of Etheria, or Oz, or Chains Of Power, or whatever the *bleep* it wants to be called, a rather obscure hack and slash - possibly due to having no American release, perhaps - that has a couple of somewhat interesting gimmicks going for it. Despite these gimmicks, seriously, there are better hack and slash games out there. It's good enough to eat, though, I'll give it that much.
The story is very anime inspired. It's here that the world has been taken over by a bunch of evil Gods who are sucking out all of the “Etheria” from the...
