Afro Samurai is a really frustrating game. But it has one interesting feature that makes it worth checking: you can cut enemies in half with your sword. It’s intriguing, you can move a cut-line over the character when you’re in “focus mode”, and it looks a lot like my previous character-cut demo. I wonder if they also do the cut at runtime, or if it’s all pre-cut ?? Drop me a line if you’re one of the devs!
Assassin’s Creed is also frustrating. I finally took the time to play it, and now it looks like I hit a fucking bug that prevents me from progressing further. I’m in Damascus, 4th mission, I went to the Bureau leader, I climbed all the watchpoints, but my objectives (pickpocket, etc) never appeared on the map. I’m stuck and it seems I will have to start again from scratch. Or better: forget that game altogether.
Frustrating, yes, but not as much as Nightshade ever was. Fun fact: there’s a “retry counter” in Nightshade, that lets you know the number of times you restarted a mission (in one sitting, it gets reset each time you go back to the main menu). Well I can tell you from painful experience that this counter does not go above 99 
Yes, that’s right, I restarted some of those insane levels more than a hundred times. In one sitting. Oh yeah I can be pretty stubborn. But I finished the damn game, at least.
August 17th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Hi Pierre,
regarding Assassin’s Creed, did you climb a watchpoint in the newly unlocked parts of the city (the ones that were “blue” previously)? Initially I started climbing the same watchpoints as in the first Damascus’s mission, no new objectives appeared, and I had the same bug-feeling you have…
Bye, and congrats for your work!
August 17th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I think I climbed all the watchpoints available in that map. IIRC there was a message saying “you climbed all the watchpoints” in Damascus, or something. The only thing left on the map are “scholars”, “vigilantes”, and I think that’s it.