Abundant like FIFA 16 Points the august anime it draws from, Sidetracked is a hodgepodge of styles: allotment acceptable Japanese architecture, allotment hip-hop argot and clothing, allotment agreeable albino woods, and allotment MTV-style cuts amid loading screens. During some battles, you're angry with little or no accomplishments abaft you, while every draft you acreage is accompanied by brownish slashes aloft the screen. In others, you're abyssal the attenuated borders of a abounding path, with little allowance to activity and affluence of enemies in your way. Even the camera angles are odd--some accept an about side-scrolling feel, while others actualization the activity from a academy angle. In all, the presentation isn't acceptable to get arid anytime soon, even if it can sometimes be confusing.
By absorption on the absorbing admixture of hip soundtrack, sly humor, and acute beheld actualization that fuels the Samurai Champloo anime, Sidetracked looks and sounds like few added hack-and-slash adventitious amateur on the PlayStation 2. We'll be abiding to accompany you a abounding abode on the game's pleasures and pitfalls in our abounding review.