Kamen Rider Blade
released on Dec 09, 2004
A Bandai published action game for PlayStation 2 based on the longrunning Kamen Rider series
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should've just made a musou instead. the character models and animations are surprisingly nice, but there's a whopping two attack buttons and no special inputs barring card abilities (which only a few characters can use anyway)
might be good i dont remember
A major improvement from Faiz.
Digifloyd improved a lot with this game compared to Faiz, but it still lacks massively for a fighting game.
Graphics are significantly better, with some really great character models on display here. There are quite a number of characters to choose from compared to Faiz, but once again forms are for super attacks and as separate characters, not in-game transformations.
The battle system though....yikes. The AI is more aggressive again like in Ryuki, though also less block-happy as they were in that. However, fighting feels overly simplified to the point of PARODY. There are two functional face buttons total in fights: punch combo, and special moves....unless your character HAS no special moves, in which case it's reserved just for super attacks and otherwise leaves you with ONE BUTTON. It's absolutely ridiculous, where's the grappling, or a different kind of attack, like a light/heavy system? That's standard for fighting games, and Faiz had it, so what gives?
Super attacks have been reworked and are far better. Animations are shorter and snappier, and they can't be spammed like crazy like in Faiz (nor does using a weapon take away from your meter). Fights are much faster as a result and feel generally enjoyable, but the lack of usuable buttons makes this totally inappropriate for competitive play, and makes it get repetitive even more than normal.
Not that repetitiveness will be much of an issue....story mode makes a welcome return and has 4 short campaigns, one for each Rider. After doing all 4...you've unlocked all but 2 of the characters, and if you use google it won't take you long to unlock the remaining ones at all.
Card collecting returns in the form of a stupid "guess the character" minigame that you need to grind arcade mode to play, and it's totally unnecessary unless you want to unlock the final character, who you can get with a cheat code anyway. It's a useless joke character, so don't get excited.
Blade is the best Kamen Rider game since Agito, but that's not saying much and it's still a far cry from being a good game.
Graphics are significantly better, with some really great character models on display here. There are quite a number of characters to choose from compared to Faiz, but once again forms are for super attacks and as separate characters, not in-game transformations.
The battle system though....yikes. The AI is more aggressive again like in Ryuki, though also less block-happy as they were in that. However, fighting feels overly simplified to the point of PARODY. There are two functional face buttons total in fights: punch combo, and special moves....unless your character HAS no special moves, in which case it's reserved just for super attacks and otherwise leaves you with ONE BUTTON. It's absolutely ridiculous, where's the grappling, or a different kind of attack, like a light/heavy system? That's standard for fighting games, and Faiz had it, so what gives?
Super attacks have been reworked and are far better. Animations are shorter and snappier, and they can't be spammed like crazy like in Faiz (nor does using a weapon take away from your meter). Fights are much faster as a result and feel generally enjoyable, but the lack of usuable buttons makes this totally inappropriate for competitive play, and makes it get repetitive even more than normal.
Not that repetitiveness will be much of an issue....story mode makes a welcome return and has 4 short campaigns, one for each Rider. After doing all 4...you've unlocked all but 2 of the characters, and if you use google it won't take you long to unlock the remaining ones at all.
Card collecting returns in the form of a stupid "guess the character" minigame that you need to grind arcade mode to play, and it's totally unnecessary unless you want to unlock the final character, who you can get with a cheat code anyway. It's a useless joke character, so don't get excited.
Blade is the best Kamen Rider game since Agito, but that's not saying much and it's still a far cry from being a good game.
Goat