Bushido Blade
Bushido Blade was released for the PlayStation in 1997, developed by Squaresoft.
This game is the absolute bomb. I've played many a fighting game, and I'm saddened that to my knowledge a game like this one hasn't been done in a long time.
It's like this:
You versus the other guy. No health bars. No time limit. No hyper combo finishes. Just you with your trusty Katana, versus the other guy (who let's just say also has a katana). And I'm talking like, a REAL Katana. Not the one where if you're sliced you're knocked back and your health bar decreases. This is the Katana where you can kill the other guy in one blow and win the match.
Oh, screw it. I don't want to take the time to go into detail about why this game is so much fun, so I'll summarize:
For once in a fighting game, you feel like a real samurai because you give and recieve blows like in a real battle. If you get cut in the leg, you continue the battle on one knee, and depending on what ground you're standing on, you can throw dirt in your enemy's eyes while you're crouched. You can completely travel all around the battle stage in free movement (not stuck facing your opponent only being able to go foward or back). You can run down your opponent just like in all the climatic samurai movies. Rather than almost every other fighting game, the gameplay is not about button combinations, but precise timing in your attacks and quick reflexes in parrying blows.
And multiplayer Versus mode is god-like fun. I had so much fun playing this game with my little brother, maybe even more fun than SSBM.
So yeah. This old school game keeps it real.
Bushido Blade was released for the PlayStation in 1997, developed by Squaresoft.
This game is the absolute bomb. I've played many a fighting game, and I'm saddened that to my knowledge a game like this one hasn't been done in a long time.
It's like this:
You versus the other guy. No health bars. No time limit. No hyper combo finishes. Just you with your trusty Katana, versus the other guy (who let's just say also has a katana). And I'm talking like, a REAL Katana. Not the one where if you're sliced you're knocked back and your health bar decreases. This is the Katana where you can kill the other guy in one blow and win the match.
Oh, screw it. I don't want to take the time to go into detail about why this game is so much fun, so I'll summarize:
For once in a fighting game, you feel like a real samurai because you give and recieve blows like in a real battle. If you get cut in the leg, you continue the battle on one knee, and depending on what ground you're standing on, you can throw dirt in your enemy's eyes while you're crouched. You can completely travel all around the battle stage in free movement (not stuck facing your opponent only being able to go foward or back). You can run down your opponent just like in all the climatic samurai movies. Rather than almost every other fighting game, the gameplay is not about button combinations, but precise timing in your attacks and quick reflexes in parrying blows.
And multiplayer Versus mode is god-like fun. I had so much fun playing this game with my little brother, maybe even more fun than SSBM.
So yeah. This old school game keeps it real.
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