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Byline: Jim Schaefer
"Sudeki," $49.99, www.xbox.com/en-us/sudeki/, Format: Xbox. Players: 1. Category: Role-playing. Rating: M (Mature). Two stars (out of four).
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Any video game that starts out with a two-minute poetry reading grabs your attention. That's not necessarily a good thing.
Role-playing games have always played slowly to me, and I'm not sure that starting off with a long, drawn-out poem is a good way to capture fans.
But "Sudeki" is in many ways like poetry _ in this case, stylish with underlying tragedy. Unfortunately, this is not a literary device; it's real. "Sudeki" is a beautiful game with potential, but ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A turn for the verse.