Fist of the North Star playing with a Ken doll and rocking out with no shame..really

Wise men say only fools rush in.....errhh ..... thank you very much

Wow last time I smashed up so much stuff with a Ken doll , it was part of a precious Barbie Ken collection , I was young and impressionable I might add . There were tears and screams , mainly from me as my sister took her revenge on my Action Man Steve Austin Evil Knevil collection . But now many decades later I have once again spent quality time  in therapeutic Ken pugilation thanks to  Koei Tecmos Fist Of the NorthStar .. and you know the soundtrack is pretty much the same as I remember from the Ken Barbie battles of my mispent but enjoyable youth....

Fist of the North Star is from the golden age of Anime , the first wave to hit the West on magnetic vhs tape !including  Akira ,Appleseed ,  Crying Freeman , Venus Wars , Patlabor, and errh Urotsukidoji ...(don't watch the last one with an audience present)

As an anime it stands shoulder pad to studded shoulder pad with those original greats,the later live action film was not bad at all  , and the game itself is going to be adored by fans. Time was you would have to import a game like  this , but today we don't need to , so ignore the reviewers too young to remember the 80s or Rick Springfield , enjoy the best heavy metal soundtrack in a game since the 80s [mkay] and set the game to hard to give yourself a challenge .  Remember to also set the voice to Japanese.

Fist of the North Star Kens Rage has a rare quality  , this is a therapeutic stress relieving game if there ever was one , the last time I played something this unsettling that was in fact settling , was probably on a Sega Genesis/Megadrive . And not a zombie in sight ,FINALLY !This is the game I will be coming back to for core comfort after my dalliance with the casual Kinect tsunami is over ...