Fiz o story mode de uns 4 personagens pra escrever isso aqui, o bagulho é muito curtinho. Bushido Blade é um dos jogos de luta mais interessantes que joguei na vida, a gameplay disso é absurda.

Muito única e o seu diferencial, realista pra cacete. Você e seu adversário morrem em 1 hit acertado em um ponto fraco, e a luta vira algo mais estratégico, jogar isso multiplayer deve ser uma experiência doida. Os golpes são fodas, principalmente por serem reais, os estilos de luta realmente existe (no caso da Katana, a que joguei) e os golpes também, eu estudei por um tempinho a arte do Kenjutsu, então reconheci vários e foi IRADISSIMO.

A gameplay complexa e única é o seu diferencial, o jogo também é bem bonito, mas a trilha sonora é bem fraquinha, os cenários também (só encontrei 3 por algum motivo) e não sei se é bug do meu emulador, mas nas lutas não tocou UMA ÚNICA MÚSICA, só tocou no treino.

Enfim, muito daora, espero que esses pontos que não curti tanto sejam concertados no 2.

Absolutely fascinating concept for a fighting game. You would think boiling down a fighter to its bare minimum would result in an extremely dry game without much of a hook, but you'd be quite wrong. Because any blow can be the killing strike, matches build with tension as they go on, particularly when either side begins sustaining injuries. Easy to fall into the fallacy of thinking an opponent's down and out, only to be caught off-guard by a carefully-timed killstrike from a kneeling opponent.

Of particular note to me are the controls, for how much they visually communicate their own ideas. Lightweight placed extreme consideration for how to represent their fighters' actions, and this is reflected in the layout of buttons on the PlayStation controller. Immediately you have the attack buttons, △/○/X as High/Mid/Low Attack - a descending order matching the buttons themselves. The last face button, □, is used for parries, which is to the left. Looking at it from the perspective of a player on the screen's left - as Player 1 would be at the start - the defensive □ is in a position retreating from the enemy, while the offensive ○ is advancing towards the enemy.

We also see this level of thought placed into the R1 and R2 buttons, which respectively are used to elevate or lower the player. On their own, R1 shifts to a higher stance while R2 shifts to a lower stance. Movement plus R2 makes the fighter crouch, and hitting R2 while the player is crouching makes the fighter go even lower than a crouch and fling dirt. Movement plus R1 lets the player climb a wall, and R1 out of a crouch turns the motion into a leap forward. There's a lot of very careful psychology like this to what the buttons do, and it's this sort of meticulous, deliberate design ethos that permiates a lot of what Bushido Blade is as an experience.

Bushido Blade feels a bit like a tech demo with all its offerings. Its emphasis on realistic weapon simulation, as well as mixing and matching eight weapons with six player characters, is pretty cool, and the game's main hook. Slash Mode is a fun challenge, very much a nod to traditional swordfighter movies. POV Mode is a complete gimmick, but darn if it isn't a cute idea. Link Mode is a cool idea - not a lot of games would make use of the ability to hook up multiple PS1s - but I've never had any Player 2s, so I can't vouch for it.

So, the hook for me has always been Bushido Blade's campaign. The initial draw there is how the game enforces its understanding of Bushido code - strike an opponent dishonorably (while they're talking, while they're vulnerable, etc), and the story admonishes the player with a bad ending. I'm always fascinated when a game bakes its moral code into its game systems, particularly if it's an established real-world code rather than the simple good/evil binary. But the campaign is quite short - potentially only six fights, in a game where every strike is a killing blow - and the endings are all melancholy and don't seem to resolve anything, so there's sort of an empty feeling a player has walking away from it.

...until they realize that there's a puzzle to finding the good ending. I don't mind spoiling it here: first, the player must navigate through the game world, screen by screen, as they look for their exit. Second, the player must clear every fight without sustaining damage. I guess, because each strike is a killing blow, the usual "don't lose a round" approach to a fighting game's true ending is an unrealistic approach?

I spent a couple hours on-stream trying to grind out a good ending, and while I was ultimately unsuccessful, I came away really appreciating the challenge being asked of the player here. That thing about tension building over the course of a match? That gets amplified considerably here, both during the first round escape sequence - even once you have the path memorized, a three-to-five minute run with an aggressive opponent constantly on the player's heels - then in the subsequent six fights. It's weirdly Katze, the first boss character who weilds a firearm, who becomes a breather round - striking, because he's initially the most annoying of the game's bosses for his ability to insta-kill at range. Everything else, including the normal, non-boss characters? Could stop your attempt cold.

There's sort of a weird meditative quality to grinding out the good ending, given that first round escape sequence. There's no music, just the noises of the wintry background as the player makes their escape. Once you solve the puzzle, the player's left alone with the empty nothingness of their flight, of everything being stripped away besides the instruments of death. I know I'm making a broad, sweeping statement on a culture with which I've barely interfaced, but I dunno - it feels like there's something quintessentially Japanese to this experience. Not bad for a game designed after kids beating sticks against each other on the playground.

An extremely experimental and thus interesting game,although one that I enjoy thinking about more than I do playing. Not only is the concept of stripping down most elements of a fighting game down to a one-hit kill system extremely avant-garde, but the story mode is full of other oddities, such as being set in a massive map that you can run around in and explore at will mid-fight (while the other guy chases you around everywhere) and a weird "honor" system that dictates your ending based on your actions.

I think it's only fun for a couple of hours if you're not playing with friends, but I'd still recommend it.

Played on a Fat PS2

This is a super unique fighting game and after all these years I can only think of two games like it (Bushido Blade 2 and Hellish Quart)

The game offers extremely intense and deep combat, with many moves and strategies available to the players. The way combat flows and feels is always nerving even for the best players.

Every character has their own advantages and special moves they're able to utilize, though each character only has access to special moves on one or two weapons. So this means if you play a certain character, you should use a weapon that the character can do special moves with. That's mostly as far as character differences go, though there is a special unlockable character that has a gun lol.

The weapons are all completely unique. Every weapon has its own move set, so you may be a master at one weapon, but have no idea how to use a different weapon. Now I don't know what any metas are but I stuck with the katana cause katanas are cool of course, and there's a lot of moves available it's pretty hard to keep track of, like any technical fighting game. I'm also pretty sure every character has a throwable weapon, I don't think these throwables can kill but they can noticeably injure your opponent. The exception is the dude with the gun of course.

Maps are kept pretty simple though they offer uneven terrain, objects in the way such as bamboo, there's definitely variety, it's just not a huge difference. It's notable that you can climb certain steeps on maps and can throw sand/dirt at your opponent if you're standing on it, so there is environmental interaction. It's also of note every character can jump.

The damage system is one of the unique bits of this game. No health bars or anything close to that, instead it's a bodily damage system and how hard a strike is + where you get struck can determine if you simply take damage, lose a function of a limb, become crippled, or die. You can do a light strike and a heavy strike, of course there's a million different variations of the light and heavy strike, but yeah there's two categories. You can strike at an opponents legs, torso, or head. What part of the body you're going for determines what specific move you'll throw. For example, a big overhead swing will only be possible to perform when you're aiming for your opponents head and when you go for a heavy strike. Any hit to the head is usually a kill. Hits to the torso can either just cause damage, or one arm goes limp, or you die. Hits to the leg usually cause damage or crippling, which leaves an opponent in a crouching or crawling stance, from this stance, aiming low now goes for the head or torso rather than legs because your opponent is lower.

I could go further and further in depth on the combat and the functions of this game, I didn't even talk about how blocking and parrying works, but if you're still reading this review at this point just go play it for yourself.

It's a fucking great swordplay game I promise. A definite recommend. I would also recommend playing this with friends.

I honestly hate fighting games but, Bushido Blade is easily the most compelling case for their being enjoyable that I have ever seen.

The combat being so simple and deadly allowed for me to get into it, I didn't feel like I needed to know every combo to win, I just needed to be patient and pick my time. Knowing the combos helps, but most of them can just as easily get you killed. Reading when an opponent is staggered versus blocking or dodging is vital for a combo to go well for you. Knowing your weapons reach and speed is of equal importance in all areas of play.

The balance of zen and violence that we see in classic samurai film fights such as Harakiri is present. The game is every bit as relaxing as it is nerve racking. It's exactly what a game about samurai sword-fighting needs to be.

If you're looking to get into this game, this guide helps a ton; (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/196844-bushido-blade/faqs/3759)

Eu não sou muito de jogos de Luta, mas esse me pegou.
É simples, ainda assim cheio de mecânicas escondidas.
Por conta do tema de Bushido, introduzir os conceitos de honra e pontos fracos(esses que são importantes no Bushido) traz uma cama excelente de gameplay e ludonarrativa. VOcê precisa jogar com honra se quer terminar o jogo. Abrir mão de uma barra de "HP" e permitir que o jogador perceba as condições do oponente de acordo com os danos que este recebeu é empolgante.
O combate pode durar 5 minutos ou 5 segundos, tornando o loop de gameplay mais empolgante e como toda partida pode ser refeita, não existe o peso da derrota que, para um jogo que pode parecer tão injusto(mesmo não sendo),é fundaemntal.
Ansioso para jogar o 2o.