Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love Review

By Chris Hudak

Ai Love New York.



There’s a scene in the brilliant Age of Sail movie Master and Commander in which a young midshipman, aboard a Royal Navy frigate, ponders his admiration of two very different elders—a thin, bookish naturalist, and a beefy, rough-and-tumble ship captain. The boy muses: “Perhaps I could combine them, to be a…

  • Unique tri-style mash-up of genres
  • Animé movie-scenes in dual voice-overs
  • Character-bond 'branching', multiple endings
  • Pokes fun at ethnic stereotypes
  • Mech combat, only in chapter-end spurts
  • Female scheme a little <i>too</i> much like reality
  • Long patches of "hit the button to continue"
  • PS2 game largely <i>looks</i> like one
  • Dialogue can sometimes d-r-a-g on

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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