In this exclusive storyline, exciting details are revealed about the BLEACH universe from before the start of the anime series. The story highlights the close partnership between two fraternal twin Soul Reapers, Matsuri Kudo and her brother Fujimaru. In fierce battles. For the first time, players create and command their own team of eight Soul Reapers. In team-based battles, players decide where to place their team on the campaign map and also how to customize their character's powers with the experience points they received. With exciting revelations and a lot more choice, strategy and cooperative gameplay, BLEACH: The 3rd Phantom will thrill fans and newcomers to the series.
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hot off the heels of playing a bleach arena fighter I bought this from my local gamestore on a whim, did not expect bleach fire emblem, safe to say a combination of two of my fave things at the time made for playtime in the triple digits
I like this game simply because it does something I wish more anime games would try to make : their own story within the universe of said anime instead of being the anime you've already seen but worse. That shit is usually non-canon anyway so who cares if it's bad and tons of naruto shippuden games already make the first naruto vs sasuke an epic showdown instead of Sasuke curbstomping Naruto for 5 minutes like in the manga. It's not even that here it's decent, some cool moments here and there nothing to really complain about.
It's a shame that this game is so sloooooooooooow. The menuing takes forever, the maps are way too big for how bland they are (or 3-5 tiles movement is too low) animations are unskippable and are looooooooong. The leveling system is also really annoying and unbalanced. Some characters are busted (Gin, your protagonist especially speed Fujimaru who pretty much deletes the map in bankai...), others are ass (Chad, Jidanbo).
Cool game with cool ideas but on god play this on an emulator with speed up
It's a shame that this game is so sloooooooooooow. The menuing takes forever, the maps are way too big for how bland they are (or 3-5 tiles movement is too low) animations are unskippable and are looooooooong. The leveling system is also really annoying and unbalanced. Some characters are busted (Gin, your protagonist especially speed Fujimaru who pretty much deletes the map in bankai...), others are ass (Chad, Jidanbo).
Cool game with cool ideas but on god play this on an emulator with speed up
I like Bleach, The designs were always really cool and the action was flashy and enjoyable (props to Kubo the guy really knows how to draw awesome things). I also like the story, or i did before the manga got completely of the rails. The soul society arc was amazing but the rest lacked direction. As a whole what i like about the anime is more the style and fights than the story substance.
Why this seemly unrelated intro? I think people give this game a lot of credit because it looks cool and the attack moves look somewhat flashy. The new villain designed by Kubo himself looks cool and could have easly been a character in one of those anime filler arcs or movies. They attempted to make a story that did fit in the anime continuity. Like the anime, a lot of effort went in the visual presentation.
But underneath lies a extremely bare bones turnbased strategy RPG. A standard weapon triangle. Lots of moves that do pretty much the same thing. Extremely low enemy diversity. I think i saw only like 3 or 4 different nonboss enemy sprites in the game. This is made worse by just having recolors of the same monster in each of the weapon triangle types that do exactly the same attacks. The soul society captains and lieutenants from the show are just single map guest characters that can level up but you lose them afterwards. They pretty much only have an attack move and they don't translate the special abilities of their swords at all in any meaningful gameplay like way. Other than their sprites they could as well have been the exact same characters. Maps were extremely boring.
Good presentation, but makes barely any effort to take advantage of the gamegenre it wants to be. If you look past the nice coat of paint there isn't much there. More a cashgrab for fans than a innovative game in any shape or form. I can see this being serviceable for people that just like Bleach and are not really into strategy RPG's otherwise (or really young when they played it). As a veteran of the genre it didn't offer enough to not get bored with it before the end.
If this is considered the best Bleach game the franchise really deserved better.
Why this seemly unrelated intro? I think people give this game a lot of credit because it looks cool and the attack moves look somewhat flashy. The new villain designed by Kubo himself looks cool and could have easly been a character in one of those anime filler arcs or movies. They attempted to make a story that did fit in the anime continuity. Like the anime, a lot of effort went in the visual presentation.
But underneath lies a extremely bare bones turnbased strategy RPG. A standard weapon triangle. Lots of moves that do pretty much the same thing. Extremely low enemy diversity. I think i saw only like 3 or 4 different nonboss enemy sprites in the game. This is made worse by just having recolors of the same monster in each of the weapon triangle types that do exactly the same attacks. The soul society captains and lieutenants from the show are just single map guest characters that can level up but you lose them afterwards. They pretty much only have an attack move and they don't translate the special abilities of their swords at all in any meaningful gameplay like way. Other than their sprites they could as well have been the exact same characters. Maps were extremely boring.
Good presentation, but makes barely any effort to take advantage of the gamegenre it wants to be. If you look past the nice coat of paint there isn't much there. More a cashgrab for fans than a innovative game in any shape or form. I can see this being serviceable for people that just like Bleach and are not really into strategy RPG's otherwise (or really young when they played it). As a veteran of the genre it didn't offer enough to not get bored with it before the end.
If this is considered the best Bleach game the franchise really deserved better.
What if I was in Bleach, they should've made it so you could customise your characters looks too.
TACTICAL RPG incroyable dans l’univers de Bleach avec des personnages nouveaux et une histoire inédite folle.
Basically Fire Emblem. I remember having fun with it