It's been three years since Yoshitune Minamoto and Benkei Musashibo, warriors of the Genji Clan, defeated the Heishi Clan in a war over the "Amahagane". The Amahagane are sacred jewels which grant the owners godlike powers, such as Kamui. Now, rumors are spreading of new, ungodly creatures fighting with Heishi warriors, even without the powers of Amahagane. Yoshitsune and his companions must draw their weapons again, and with the new strength given to them by the Amahagane, defeat the new evil to save all of Japan. Genji: Days of the Blade, sequel to the PlayStation 2 game Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, is an action game, based in ancient/feudal Japan, in which you must defeat a new, mysterious source of evil to save your country. You control one of four characters (changeable in real-time), each with their own weapons, abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Yoshitsune Minamoto and Benkei Musashibo, the main characters of the previous game, join with Gozen Shizuka and Lord Buson to complete their quest. Yoshitsune is a young warrior who wields a katana in each hand, Benkei is a mighty warrior-monk who uses a war club and a naginata for weapons. Shizuka is a nimble priestess who is adept with chained blades, and Buson is a God of War from the Overworld who carries a double saber and can use supernatural powers. The game play involves fighting many enemies and bosses with regular attacks, combo attacks, and Kamui. Kamui is a power that you can use to summon a magical space around you in which you unleash multiple special attacks on surrounding enemies by pressing buttons in series as they appear on the screen. Your Kamui bar fills as you land successful hits on opponents. The characters travel through both levels based on real locations in Japan and fantasy locations, defeating everything from regular Heishi warriors to giant, mutated enemy crabs. The level design involves platformer elements and solving small puzzles, such as destroying Masho flowers scattered throughout an area to open a door. The game also has RPG elements; you collect Amahagane and Mashogane hidden around levels and from fallen enemies. They can be used to augment character stats and weapon attack power, respectively. You can also find new weapons and items such as herbs with healing properties, or scrolls that give you attack bonuses for a period of time.


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definitely a game that was made more thinking about making something flashy for the new gen of consoles than an actually enjoyable game (whoever designed chapter 5 I hope you are seeking mental help)
the combat feels heavy and unresponsive and the platforming well idk why they even bothered that being said the game does look good for a ps3 release game it has aged surprisingly well.
also funny I own a sealed copy of this I am not sure if its a 2006 release copy but it has the official ps3 seal I bought it on eBay in like 2019 when i still collected ps3 exclusives and it just came like that it did not say anywhere on the listing it was a new game it literally cost less than 5 bucks with shipping my only guess was someone had a box of this damned game and just wanted to get rid of it but anyways that's why I ILLEGALLY downloaded this game to my soft moded ps3 so I didn't have to open it

gameplay is worse than the first one

I like it because it depicts famous battles, which actually took place in ancient Japan

Fun fact: it’s the only PS3 game I willingly gave away for nothing. Bought it with my PS3 and didn’t like it at all. This even before I knew what “trophies” were all about & this one doesn’t have any.

"Meh. this would have been so much better if they had
done a better job with the camera angles and fight
sequences."