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Apr 04 2005
Bleach Review
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I was holding out until I played more for a review of this game. Here it is.
Bleach is a fun and simple Anime based fighting game. As far as I know its the only fighting game on the PSP and that alone makes it worth playing, and this game delivers everthing that is asked of it.
First the game is attractive and the interface is elegant. The cell shaded characters as well as the arenas look absolutely great and the voices (at least in japanese) are convincing throughout the story mode and during the fights, really giving you a sense of each character's attitude. You can select from several modes (Soul verses wireless battle, story mode, Vs CPU, Survival, and Appendix) on the main screen and pressing triangle will bring up the options, save/load, etc.
Playing the story mode takes you through a manga style story which is different for each character. You see changing artwork with (japanese) text balloons and voice overs, which lead up to each fight. They are kind of fun if you speak any Japanese, but if you grow tired of all that you can just press start.
and boom, after a medium load time your in the fight. Though it took me some manual translating to figure out that x is hit, square is strong hit, circle is "soul attack", and triangle is jump at default, I was soon comboing up to 12 with no problem. Each character has their own moves and strengths as you would expect from a virtu-fighter style game. You can block either with L1 or by pressing back. Block even works in the air. The fighting is fast a fluid and not too hard to master. Sidesteps become a valuable trick (just press up or down to step aside) but doesnt get out of everything and blocks dont work forever. All in all, though it is reminiscient of virtua fighter, the depth of moves and styles is somehow lacking when compared to VirtuFighter 4 on the PS2.
Another unexciting aspect of the game is the unlockables. All modes give you points for winning, and you use these points to buy cards in the appendix mode. The cards are from the "Soul Battle" game which is a Yugi-Oh/Pokemon/Magic the Gathering style game which presumably exists here in Japan. Once you have the cards you can view which ones you have and which ones are missing; you can zoom with the shoulder buttons and pan and almost read the cards, and not care. The system deals you cards face down and you pick one of four at a hundred points a pop. Thing is that sometimes the one you choose is a duplicate and you waste the points. Getting certain cards or a certain number of cards (Im not sure which) will net you an unlockable like a new voice for the system to use in the fights and the menus (cool) a new promotional video (lame, just commercials and credit roles so far) and the ability to view galleries and browse the voice databases for the characters (whatever). The manual says I can unlock an Arkanoid/Brickles/Breakout style minigame called (hehe) Blockout, which can be played two player on one psp, but Ive yet to get it with 99 out of 134 cards. I have managed to unlock one baddass charater, Renji Abarai, and I am dearly hoping theirs more but Im not holding my breath seeing as I havent fought any other characters that I couldnt play. That leaves (seemingly) in total 6 playable characters. Other characters in the game that show up in story mode like talking teddybear are on my wishlist of playables.
One other thing, you can access a combo list from the pause menu, but it doesnt change when you change the buttons, just so you dont get frustrated.
There you have it, lots of FUN, lots of polish, not much depth. I would reccomend this game as very enjoyable, but I will still line up for virtua fighter when its released 8.3 out of 10
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Darkstalkers Chronicles from Capsom is also a fighting game for the PSP. Fun also!
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Sounds great! But is it worth buying?? I have a US PSP and I was going to order the game off lik-sang but not if its gonna be lame. Can anyone give their opinion on the game??! Thanks
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Didn't he just do that very thing in his review?
...I'll get it in a few days, I'll post a review of my own then - but this one seems pretty in-depth.
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i think ironfox is talking about dark stalkers. just in the wrong forum! lol
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when is this comming to the states or is it?
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The graphics on this game look lovely!
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Looks like an interesting game, I have just been getting into the figthing games lately and am really interested, are the voices in japanese or english?
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Japanese voices, the graphics are pretty good but I noticed a lot of jagged edges and some clipping in victory poses, other than that the game is beautiful especially the intro.
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You can choose the voices eng or japanese, the english ones have an accent though. In story mode only in Japanese Sincerely doubt this will land in the states. If I had somebody around whose ass I could kick this would be way more fun, as with all fighting games Ive never seen a jagged edge or bug in this game but I think theres only one character to unlock the rating holds as long as you have a buddy with a psp and this game (ie another 400 bucks to sony) - honestly I am not playing this much anymore and sticking to warriors/minna no golf and waiting waiting waiting for GT4, but hte arkanoid minigame is good
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It will only be released in the states when the Bleach series is licensed by an American company. An example of this is when Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist were liscensed, titles under their name began to trickle into the states.
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Hiya! How do you choose the English voices for the game? And, uh...how do you pause the game? I tried hitting "start" but that doesn't work.
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