Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked review

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After a while, the only consistently interesting parts of the game are the challenging boss battles, which actually require timing, patience and skill. But even these can get irritating; one mad-bomber boss filled his areawith deep craters that are literally almost impossible to avoid (they seem to have an actual gravitational pull). You know your game is in trouble when you steal the most infuriating element of the legendarily bad game E.T.: The ExtraTerrestrial for the Atari 2600. Never played that one? Just know this: Atari literallyburiedthousands of them in cement vaults inthe desert.