Spoiler: Japanese ones tend to be better.
Which is odd, because I have the exact opposite opinion when it comes to, like, actual games. Sold Demon's Souls a little while ago, and despite loving the first Way of the Samurai like it were my slightly idiotic son-in-law, I can't fucking stand Way of the Samurai 3. I'm either not gonna review it or do so without a score, because I can't even complete the game once without getting frustrated and angry.
Slightly unrelated: I am so fucking sick of bad guys that take memorization and a high-level weapon to kill just because their attacks are really strong and they have a shitload of HP. If Way of the Samurai had the fighting system of Bushido Blade, it'd probably solve every goddamn problem I have with the game. If I wanna kill the recruiter of one of the clans midway through his speech, I shouldn't have to level up my sword eight times and bring a baker's dozen of mushrooms and rice balls to the table just to survive.
I really can't remember the last Japanese game I unequivocally enjoyed (Little King's Story was great, but did take some equivocation).
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If you don't mind gaming the system for a few minutes, you can eat a radish and die as the entirety of your playthrough to net you a "Vegetarian" title, and a load of points.
I'm surprised you're frustrated, which has me interested in your review.
To this day, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a serious adaptation or not. I like Takashi Miike for Audition, Ichi The Killer and Gozu, but that film was borderline Uwe Boll at times.
Going along with that point, I would have loved a Jim review of Demon's Souls.
Pussy.
That's what "Either I'm not gonna review it" was referring to.
Oh. Well with Dale, he just didn't give a score, which is what I was referring to.
That game is beyond solid.
Rev, don't do dat.
What a mook.
The more watchable movies from either side of the fence:
America: Dead Space: Downfall
Japan: Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie
All the article said was "Well, even though the Japanese ones are still awful, they're better because they were more faithful."
Faithfulness to the source material =/= quality
Faithfulness to the source material does matter if you care about the source material. If you go watch a movie based on a game, with the intention of seeing an adaptation, then that's how you're going to rate it. If you're going to watch the movie having never played the game and don't care, you won't care.
It does matter depending on what angle you come at it with.
Also, Japan may have not made a House of the Dead film (do the CG scenes in the games count?), but they did make a "Oneechanbara" film. I haven't watched it, *yet*, but generally unless the film does not take itself seriously I tend to not like too many Japanese films - based on franchises or not. Also, I hate, HATE Hollywood films, so maybe I'm just a jackass.
Mortal Kombat was pretty decent, but that doesn't count in this case.