The number of upgrades are pretty limited, and you reach what feels like maximum potential relatively quickly. Unfortunately, it kind of runs out of steam about halfway through. Shadow Warrior 3 is a pretty short game, I finished the main story in just over 7 hours. Katana combat is much less varied but no less satisfying.
Each one works better in various situations, which really makes cycling through them fun and stress-free because everything *can* work everywhere for the most part.
The firearms are varied enough to be interesting but do not include any real stand-out performers. Keeping track of those resources is vital, and helps determine the approach you will take in each combat encounter. Katana kills net ammo, while firearm kills get you health. Ammo and Health are relatively plentiful around the arenas, and every enemy drops one of the two, depending on the method you use to kill them.
The super-fast-paced, arena-style shooting takes center stage when combat starts and the movement and flow of the system are some of the best I have played recently, outside of the ostensibly untouchable Doom (2016). This is accomplished with a combination of firearms and a Katana. When Lo Wang is not cracking wise about his ?low wang?, he is killing Yokai. I personally did not mind it and felt like it fit the feeling of the game overall, but it will absolutely not be something for everyone. Shadow Warrior 3 ranks a 12/10 on the absurdity/high school humor scale. I do not think there will be a middle ground here. The dialogue and general feeling of the game are incredibly low-brow full of fart jokes and one-liners that will either keep you laughing all the way through or will be insufferable after the first 10 minutes. I will throw a disclaimer on here, for anyone like myself who was entirely unfamiliar with this series. After that, Shadow Warrior 3 just takes off. The game throws you right into the fray, with a short combat and movement tutorial. He quickly learns that is not the case however and proceeds to start working to set things right. There is a gigantic mythical dragon bringing about the apocalypse, and Lo Wang believes everyone and everything that could help him has been lost or killed. You play as Lo Wang, picking up right where it seems the second game left off. It is simple, straightforward, *short*, but a hell of a lot of fun. This game is not genre-defining, not world-shaking, or game-changing. After having spent a weekend with Shadow Warrior 3, I feel like I made a mistake skipping out. I have eyed the previous two games on Steam during various sales but always seemed to have something else on my plate at the time and ultimately passed on them. Having never played a Shadow Warrior game before, I was entirely unprepared for just how much absurd fun this game is.
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