Intense and repetitive

* The Port
This game consists of Toukiden: Age of Demons and it's expansion Kiwami. Even though Toukiden: Kiwami was released on PS4 as well, this is a PS Vita port. The graphics are not bad, but could look better, and the game is locked at 30fps. It also lacks some screen resolutions

* The Story
Age of Demons uses the "monsters are attacking the world" story, and aside of some happenings, it's really generic. Kiwami's story, on the other hand, has much more mystery to it and a few plot-twists. And overall, the characters have solid personalities and there's a fair bit of humor

* The Gameplay
It is the non-Nintendo Monster Hunter, with a few upgrades. The weapon variety is big, and each one is very unique in its combat style. Mitamas - souls of past warriors - gives you passive and active skills that make a huge difference in battle. There is a lack in mission diversity - most of them are either kill the boss or kill a few enemies in some zones

Which brings us to the bosses. Fighting them is really exciting for the first few times: you learn what are their breakable parts (breaking them let you hit through their shield, reduces their damage and some lose abilities), attack patterns and how to fight them when they rampage. On the other hand, they are all HP sponges, so expect to spend 10 minutes smashing buttons on every fight

* Final Thoughts
Toukiden Kiwami could be a great game, but it is just good. Kiwami is a great improvement to the base game in every way: story, bosses, weapons and kinds of mitama
Once again Koei failed to provide a good port, choosing the Vita version instead of PS4
The story paces well and, for most part, gives you a new challenge. But as you progress, the "new" bosses are just recycled versions of past ones with a few different attacks. As you get closer to the end, you may feel bored to hell to fight the closely same bosses every mission

This game is, by no means, worth $60 - simply because of the poor port. Luckily, it goes on sale every now and then, and $30 is enough for the many hours of fun it can provide
The DLCs unlock new stages for the multiplayer mode only (which can be played solo as well)

Another terrible PC port by Koei Tecmo:
- No mouse control.
- Terrible keyboard control: Q, E, R, F to control camera. L, P and Backspace to attack.
- Framerate is capped at 30fps. Sometimes it's capped at 20fps for no reason. Neither CPU nor GPU was in 100% usage when the game runs at 20fps.

The game itself is decent, but play with the controller, or grab other versions instead. The game is nigh unplayable with only the keyboard.

Awful port.
30 FPS lock.
No mouse.
Awful keybinding, you can't rebind many important things.
Controller support is limited to the already existing controllers (Xbox 360 and PS3or4).
Nothing more that console version.
60€.
Refund time.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IN ITS CURRENT STATE

This is a list of all issues we've known so far on day 1:
- Breaking the 30 FPS lock breaks the entire game
- Lowered FPS while in Windowed mode
- UNPLAYABLE FPS while in the village even if missions run fine
- Quests not giving out appropriate rewards
- Online mode completely broken (for now)
- Broken particle effects
- Broken light shafts
- Constant crashes for no apparent reason

I have over 150 hours logged into the Vita version of this game. I love it. It's a great game. But do NOT buy this version of Toukiden Kiwami.

The game is locked at 30 FPS. There is no going back from that. But FIX YOUR DAMN GAME KOEI. This is completely shameful. We paid $60 and receive a broken heap of a game? Come on! Warner Bros. did the same mistake and look all the good it did to them. Don't make the same mistake.

Edit 3.5: Short conclusion: I personally enjoy the game content itself, but list several shortcomings below. If you still want to buy the game after reading this, there's a really good chance you'll enjoy it.

You may enjoy this game if:
* you like co-op action/RPGs or games similar to Monster Hunter or Phantasy Star Online (PSO)
* looking for a feudal / ancient Japanese themed setting
* have a game pad or don't mind playing with keyboard without a mouse
* have an existing group of friends playing this game for multiplayer co-op
* do not mind playing in full-screen
* do not mind playing with capped frame rate of 30 FPS
* appreciate a well-rounded soundtrack
* don't mind payng full game cost (at the time of this review)

Do NOT get this game if:
* (Partial Addressed as of 7/6) if you have any of the "problematic" hardware or software (may want to check the discussion boards here to see what those have been) as you may be troubleshooting or reconfiguring your hardware just to play this one game
* you're hoping for an seamless multiplayer interface as it is a lobby-based interface that requires a player to be idle in a lobby for you to join (cannot play a mission, cannot select a mission, cannot be crafting.)
* no automatic refresh or join on the lobby system, either create a lobby and wait around or manual refresh to find a compatible game
* you use keyboard and mouse, because the game cannot reassign actions to the mouse (if the reverse happened, where a PC port to console required you to use a keyboard/mouse to enjoy the game, I suspect many console gamers would not be pleased that their primary interaction method is not supported)
* you like to play in windowed mode and have a decent framerate -- the game speed is literally tied to frame rate, so a steady frame rate of 20 FPS means 66% gameplay speed
* you like to play games at 60 FPS and run at normal gameplay speed (Omega Force had the DW6 port for PC capable of running at 60 FPS in 2008)
* would like to use the keyboard to chat with people you meet, input names or notes -- you have to use the game's UI to select one letter at a time
* would like to look up the Steam name of someone you meet to chat with them there, because there doesn't seem to be a way yet -- use the preprogrammed messages in the game instead
* you would like an English dub or even English subtitles for the "battle cries," -- neither exist and I don't think they will
* do not like a UI that does not move if you move too fast through it
* if you would like to customize your face by eye style, eye color, nose style, mouth style, chin style, or facial hair -- you have 1 of 20 pre-configured faces per gender to choose from and possibly only two with facial hair that does not reflect your hair color
* if you want other body types per gender -- as you cannot be a slim ninja, a short rifleman, or a hulking hammer wielding warrior, you all have the same body size

Minor things I personally don't like on top of the above:
* animation locks and slow animations can make combat feel not as fluid as Dynasty Warriors 8 (a Tecmo Koei game)
* segmented maps with multiple loading screens during a mission
* (7/6 update) frame rate dips in full screen have been rare these days

Things I do like:
* the music
* the Japanese era-like setting
* story character portraits
* used to like forcing V-Sync on the GPU and running at 60 FPS even if the game speed is doubled ~ actually feels more fluid (accidentally ran with V-Sync off and the game was running 200+ FPS ~ could not even select Continue) (7/6 Update) this is no longer a possibility with the current executable and is far more stable across my three machines
* variety of bosses to fight
* variety of combat styles and configurations
* the ability to hide helmet on most armor styles
* hoping senpai will notice me in the hot springs
* no crashes on primary machine yet

The store page game summary reflects single-player gameplay elements and story well enough.

Conclusion as of July 2, 2015):
I saw the negative reviews in the most helpful section and could not find a positive review for many pages so I looked at the positive reviews only. I was cautiously optimistic for what looked like a "samurai" themed co-op action RPG. Some may wonder, "You have a lot of hours clocked in and it works for you, why don't you recommend it? I don't understand." In terms of the game working for me, I feel like I happen to be lucky. I typically don't feel lucky with these pre-2012 machines, but it's like this game was made for it (and that's bad in 2015.) At first I tried to give the game at least three hours to give my review some weight and then once I was past the reasonable refund point, I felt obligated to get my money's worth. I'm also starved for this niche atmosphere with RPG elements. The gameplay is a 3 out of 5 stars for me with co-op tipping it upward.

I probably dialed my expectations back to 2007, because when I think about things we've seen in other games these past fews years: separation of character face options, the ability to dye clothing, drop-in and drop-out co-op, responsive controls, KB/M support (look at almost any 3rd person action game for working examples), the list goes on. And then I realized how much potential the game doesn't tap into, but even before that, some basic PC features aren't addressed properly. Even the "console expectation," that the game will work right out of the box is not an unreasonable expectation. Even still, there's a few things that would nudge this game into the recommended / thumbs up side:

* Keyboard and Mouse support
* Improved PC optimization
* Support for 60 FPS

In general, if Koei addressed those three points above on top of not cutting out features found in console versions, I believe that TK could prevent most of the negative reviews (and probably get a lot more sales out of not just this game, but their other products as well.) Please consider this for the future TK.

Unless you have gamepad, do not buy until they have mouse support.
The keyboard control is very awful.

Its a interesting looking game, that is if you can play it. Its full of bugs, doesnt work for some people (me being one) and for those people who care (which I dont) its locked at 30fps. I would love to play this game in its working state, but right now this game should not be for sale, as it doesnt work at least for 95% of players. If this is ever fixed, I'd probably recommend buying. But right now its a poorly ported game.

Toukiden: Kiwami is ported/optimized as fine as Batman: Arkham Knight. Hopefully, few patches will fix performance issues, but 'till then 'Not reccomended'

This game has so much missed potential. I was very excited for this game's release after watching gameplay footage. I was amped up for a hybrid between Monster Hunter and Dark Souls, a game that might go down in history.

But then I played it. It's so buggy and clunky. The menus are unwieldly, glitchy, and limited in functionality. The framerate is capped to 30, which makes the controls clunky and the animations unsatisfying.

I understand that this game was just ported over from PS4, but this thing is in desperate need of a patch. The framerate needs to be uncapped and the menus need to be fixed. This game has a lot of potenital that deserves to be attained.

I intend to play this game in the future, once (if) it gets fixed.

KOEI didn't want you buy this game, and DON'T buy this game until they fix it (i hope though)

mouse support? you wish
buttton tutorial for keyboard? lol Xbox only,
FPS drop at town --> NOW to 5 fps nice one
camera control? freaky
user friendly? HELL NO

this game will betray all your expectation