[Review] Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo

Bandai Namco Games
2D Fighting
29 November 2012

Saint Seiya Omega Ultimate Cosmo is the first Saint Seiya game that make a debut in Playstation Portable console. Surprisingly this game was released at the same time with Kamen Rider Super Climax Heroes (make it hard to choose at that time because I also a quite fans with Saint Seiya series).

This game introducing new characters from the new Saint Seiya anime (called as Saint Seiya Omega) alongside the old characters that actually appear in this new anime. All of the characters that can be playable in this game are Pegasus Kouga, Lionet Soma, Aquila Yuna, Dragon Ryuho, Wolf Haruto, Orion Eden, Opiuchus Shaina, Hydra Ichi, Peacock Pavlin, Hornet Sonia, Andromeda Shun, Siren Sorento, Poseidon, Sagittarius Seiya, Capricorn Ionia, Leo Mycenae, Aries Kiki & Libra Genbu.



Game Features

• Story Mode: Poseidon come back to bring down Athena from her throne, as one of Athena new generation Saints you must defeat Poseidon. In order to do that you must collect all 6 gems of Triton through some battles. Once you collect all the gems, you can combine it into suit of Triton / Triton Scale. Story mode has 6 routes that represent each of Athena new saint (Pegasus Kouga, Lionet Soma, Aquila Yuna, Dragon Ryuho, Wolf Haruto & Orion Eden), each route has at least eight battles including battle against final boss (Poseidon). Once you finish all of the 6 routes, you will get new route which is Sagittarius Seiya route.
• Arcade Mode: Fighting against some saints, in this mode you can also unlock some character like:  Aries Kiki (unlock by using Libra Genbu in Arcade Mode), Siren Sorento (unlock by using Lionet Soma in Arcade Mode), Poseidon (unlock by using Siren Sorento in Arcade Mode) and 6 Triton scale saints (unlock by using all 6 Athena saints in Arcade Mode).
• Versus Mode: Fighting against A.I or your friend through Wi-Fi connection.
• Training Mode: The name already explain it, it also has tutorial that teach you some useful moves.

How It Looks ?

Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo has similar gameplay like any typical fighting games. The characters appear in 2D graphic while the environment appear in 3D graphic, so you can perform left or right sidesteps.

The visual effect for this game also very cool beside attack that using cosmo or finishing move, The movement effect for all characters looks very good, like when you perform quick movement there's also afterimage effect or light effect for certain Saints. In this game you can break enemy's armor by hitting them using cosmo energy or finishing move.

Attacking using cosmo may consume 1 block from your special gauge, it gives a little better damage than attacking without using cosmo. There's also finishing move but you must activate awaken mode first (require full 3 blocks of your special gauge). Uniquely the finishing move isn't some absolute attack that will hit the enemy no matter he try to escape, yeah for certain type of characters/Saints has finishing move that easy to dodge. So you must smart enough when and where you can give the finishing move to your enemy or your cosmo will be waste to nothing.

 

 

Pros & Cons

+ The visual effects are very good.

+ Good mechanism on fighting, like armor breaker & chance to dodge finishing move.

- Story Mode quite boring.

- Background Musics are very so-so.

- There's no guard breaker, the most annoying a.i in this game is the one that always put defensive stance no matter what happens.

Sephiawind Score:

STORY 4/5

The Story really easy to understand even though you're not understand Japanese, because it appear in anime scene that you can enjoy to watch.

GAMEPLAY 2/5

The Story mode is the most boring mode in this game, simply said in order to finish all routes you must play total 56 battles with almost the same story and event for every each of 6 Athena saints. Though the game mechanisms are very interesting, I guess you will get bored once you unlock all characters. 

GRAPHIC 4/5

The visual effects are really good

SOUND 2/5

The background music's very mediocre.

REPLAY VALUE 1/5

You may playing this game again, if unlocking all contents in gallery mode seems important to you.

2.6/5
  

Conclusions

To summarize this review, It's really hard to enjoy this game, as a debut Saint Seiya Omega : Ultimate Cosmo didn't give a lot of impression, the 'actually' good mechanisms on game are overshadowed by the very boring story mode. The rooster characters for this game also not that many and as an old fans you may dissapointed because there's only few old character that make appearance in this game like Sagittarius Seiya, Andromeda Shun, Siren Sorento & Poseidon. This game also lack the guard breaker mechanism, you will find the enemy that always put defensive stance, it so hard to give him a damage and sometimes you may choose the grab and throw tactic in order to finish him ( well I guess that's not how Saints fight). The Triton scale isn't special stuff in this game, it just a different suits without any special feature for all of 6 Athena's Saint.