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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 27, 2017 16:55:58 GMT -5
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Aug 27, 2017 21:57:58 GMT -5
God I loved Bushido Blade.
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Post by Jungyin on Aug 28, 2017 0:46:10 GMT -5
The webpage title for the first page incorrectly says "Tobal".
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Post by magic89 on Aug 28, 2017 4:04:39 GMT -5
One of my favorite games on PS1. Everything perfect expcept...AGH! i hate that guy with handgun its piss me off! But i like that idea if you strike down your opponet before he/she finish own chit-chat you gonna be punished by worst ending. (I dont rymenber did slashing up handgun guy counts too)
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Aug 28, 2017 5:30:11 GMT -5
I don't remember either. I think it did, though.
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Post by toei on Aug 28, 2017 14:51:44 GMT -5
It's kind of funny that my writeup for Bushido Blade 2 went from my positioning of it as the superior game to the more popular idea that it failed to surpass its predecessor in the space of a paragraph. I guess that's Kurt's prerogative, because it's his site, but for the record: Bushido Blade 2 is better, for all the reasons explained in the first two paragraphs.
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Post by Discoalucard on Aug 28, 2017 17:03:11 GMT -5
Oh, the article needed a conclusion so I added one in based on your text. Not so much that it's worse but the fighting is simplified to the point where it doesn't really surpass the first game but the added content is welcome.
I prefer the second personally but I definitely get why people like the first more so I wanted to reflect that.
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Post by toei on Aug 28, 2017 20:54:03 GMT -5
Oh, the article needed a conclusion so I added one in based on your text. Not so much that it's worse but the fighting is simplified to the point where it doesn't really surpass the first game but the added content is welcome. I prefer the second personally but I definitely get why people like the first more so I wanted to reflect that. I thought of the following paragraph, about Square selling off its shares in Lightweight, as the conclusion to the overall article; Lightweight couldn't make anymore Bushido Blades as Square owned the rights (and Square didn't care, or they would have kept Lightweight), hence the Kengo series. I wanted to keep that part short because Dream Factory had a similar relationship with Square and they I didn't think it necessary to add a few lines just summing up what came before because my articles are already pretty long as a rule, and I try to trim the fat as much as possible. Part of my motivation when writing it, though, was to make a case for the second one being an improvement overall after seeing disparaging comments on the internet; I wanted to counterbalance that, while still most adhering to the information-before-opinion tone of the site. These edits do change the overall statement made in the article."Fun enough in its own right" makes it sound like we're talking about Chrono Cross or Zelda 2. And there's already a paragraph about how the differences between the two prevent the first from becoming obsolete, so it just seems redundant. If there needs to be such a conclusion, would you be open to my suggesting something that fits in better with overall flow and point of the article? I would write one tomorrow and just post it here or whatever.
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Post by redd88 on Aug 29, 2017 11:03:33 GMT -5
I'm huge fan of the Bushido Blade series. Never had a chance to check out the Kengo series. desperately waiting for these games to show up on US PSN. With a little tinkering, I always thought these games could've turned out better than they had, (like adding some sort of defense bar, and forcing the player to learn how to break your opponents defense would have added more depth) but alas.
Anyways, I've been replaying the games lately because I wanted to grab footage for a project I was working on. So I had to replay these games in order to get the good endings:
To get the good endings for Bushido Blade 1, you need to do two things:
1) you need to go through the game unharmed, 2) while following the ways of bushido:
If you get hit even once, you will get the bad ending - the game will show you this, by either placing bandages on the head, arm or leg over the area that was damage after the preceding match. The bad ending FMV will play once your match with Hanzaki is complete.
If you break the code of Bushido, the game will end abruptly before you can obtain either ending - you do this by either using your sub weapon, sand - attacking them while they're climbing, attacking them while they're talking or stabbing them in the back after they're finished talking. (this also counts on Katze, the man with the gun and later bosses you will face) EDIT: For some characters, walking through the mudpit in storymode also breaks the code?
The trick to retaining Bushido in story mode is to wait for the "click" sound, their weapon makes before attacking.
Once you hear the "click" sound, as long as you're facing your opponent, than anything is fair game - in this respect, the game sort of turns into a western/samurai standoff; All you need to do is find an attack that will overpower your opponents defence, so you can make a fatal blow. This is the key to winning Bushido Blade.
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So, the easiest way to get the good ending, is to lead your first opponent to the castle exit, cut their leg while they're climbing and quickly escape through the castle exit. (If you do this the right way, this does not count against your bushido)
By doing this, the game will jump to your 5th opponent, upon exiting the castle. So now you only have 5 opponents to worry about before getting the good ending, as long as you remain unscathed.
EDIT: To defeat Katze, the man with the gun, you just need to run around and wait for his ammo to run out, he will then try to reload - that's your opening.
(It's such a great game with some really cool ideas - because you only have one life, the game sort of forces you to learn how to control a fight, through experimentation; but because the learning curve is so step, it's just too hard to pick up on - I remember one time, bringing the game to a friends house and they just played it like a regular fighting game and quickly got bored of it, because the game doesn't really teach you how to be more mindful of building a proper defence - that and soulblade was the better game.)
I kind of wish this series, had a chance to really flourish with proper guidance, because it would've been really cool to see this game being played at tournaments - especially now with VR - But it just wasn't meant to be.
Bushido Blade 2 was the better "game", but Bushido Blade 1 had the better idea, but it was so undeveloped.)
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Aug 29, 2017 18:35:19 GMT -5
Why was the game censored in its native Japan? CERO (they should burn in hell with Satan) didn't even exist yet.
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Post by Pazto on Aug 30, 2017 5:10:25 GMT -5
Loved the First game, it had it's unique charme. IIRC here in europe we never get the second one. Good work, still fun to play today.
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Post by nerdybat on Sept 1, 2017 7:35:39 GMT -5
Oh, it's that game every "47k games" guest notices when checking the list.
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Post by aganar on Sept 2, 2017 22:05:40 GMT -5
I bought the Bushido Blade strategy guide around 2004 or so off eBay, mostly just looking for collectibles (I already had the game by this point). It blew my mind to discover that every character had a preferred weapon, and combos that only those characters could do when wielding that specific weapon. To this day, I feel like 80% of people who play Bushido Blade are unaware of this.
Also, I'm pretty sure one of the VA's in the English version of Bushido Blade 2 played Kenshin in the popular Rurouni Kenshin series English dub.
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Post by ResidentTsundere on Sept 9, 2017 19:02:57 GMT -5
These games sound so interesting. I remember reading about them in Tips & Tricks. I would like to check out cutscenes of BB2 to determine if he was voiced by the English dub actor for Kenshin. Rurouni Kenshin is one of my favorite anime and manga. BB2 had Lex Lang as one of the VAs. He voiced Sanosuke Sagara in RuroKen. The dub also features Beau Billingslea, Richard Hayworth (also known as Richard Cansino, the English VA for Kenshin), Wendee Lee, and Michael Sorich.
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Post by toei on Sept 9, 2017 19:42:47 GMT -5
I bought the Bushido Blade strategy guide around 2004 or so off eBay, mostly just looking for collectibles (I already had the game by this point). It blew my mind to discover that every character had a preferred weapon, and combos that only those characters could do when wielding that specific weapon. To this day, I feel like 80% of people who play Bushido Blade are unaware of this. Also, I'm pretty sure one of the VA's in the English version of Bushido Blade 2 played Kenshin in the popular Rurouni Kenshin series English dub. I believe so, too. I have a few friends who all loved Bushido Blade since back in the day, but none of them were quite clear on how to play it. A modern incarnation would need a good training mode.
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