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Genji: Days of The Blade

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Date Released: Nov 13, 2006

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Description

Set three years after the last chapter of Genkuro Yoshitsune's life, Genji: Days of the Blade, continues to expand on the historical accounts of feudal Japan. Days of the Blade unveils beautiful next generation visuals and sword slashing gameplay as an exclusively developed title for the Playstation 3.

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Stunning visuals that take advantage of the PlayStation 3's next generation power. View larger.
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Pulse-pounding sword fighting. View larger.
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Can you handle all these enemies? View larger.
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Swap characters and weapons during gameplay to conquer your enemies. View larger.
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Deliver devastating attacks. View larger.
Game Storyline
Three years have passed since the young swordsman, Yoshitsune Minamoto, and his warrior-monk companion, Benkei Musashibo, defeated the Heishi Clan and their leader in a brutal battle over the possession of "Hinaishi"-- divine jewels that bring their owners godlike powers. With that success, it had finally seemed that peace, however temporary, had arrived.

During this time, Yoritomo Minamoto, Yoshitsune's older brother and leader of the Genji clan, tracked the remnants of the Heishi to the South of Japan where he and his army were preparing to eliminate their weakened numbers.

However, rumors begun to spread of new, ungodly creatures appearing within the Heishi ranks and their evil force re-strengthening, even without the use of the Hinaishi.

Now, with the aid of his closest friends and some unlikely allies, Yoshitsune must once again wield his fierce blades and summon the powers of the Hinaishi in and epic battle to save all of Japan.

Gameplay
Prepare for a next generation action/adventure that combines dramatic and fluid martial arts combat with an ancient historical tale of feudal Japan.

Execute gracefully articulated swordplay while pulling off lightning quick lunges, multi-strike combos, and spectacular special moves that differ depending on the characters you are playing and the weapons the wield.

Instantly swap between the four playable characters; young samurai Yoshitsune Minamoto, mighty warrior-monk Benkei Musashibo, Tamayori priestess lady Shizuka, and Lord Buson, the God of War who has taken up the earthly form of Kagekiyo Taira, the antagonist from the original Genji game, Dawn of the Samurai. Take advantage of each of their unique fighting styles and weapons, or pull off devastating team-based combos by interchanging characters between attacks.

Partake in massive battles against hundreds of enemies simultaneously with no loss of frame rate or detail. Melee your way through entire armies on the battlefield while an epic war rages on around you.

Equip and instantly switch between to different weapons at any time. Begin a move with one weapon, and finish off with another for devastating combination attacks. Each character has their own signature-specific weapons to choose from, of which you're certain to develop favorites.

Collect Amahagane and Mashogane crystals, and then use them to strengthen your characters and weapons. You choose which warriors and weapons to upgrade, making each and every game experience unique.

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Beautiful

This game is beautiful. It has a mystical sense about it, one of old, one of magic. The gameplay is a lot of fun and you have various characters that you can control making it even more appealing. The camera was not as big of a problem as many complained about; if you know how to play and if you ever played devil may cry 2 you will not have a problem with it. I love this game.
 

Some things missing but a great PS3 game...

The price is good. Actually I have advanced 75% percent of the game. You've to start on the feudal Japan, then on the Underworld, then on the Over world in order to finally finish the game.
There are a lot of bosses to defeat like a giant type of cat, a crab, a beautiful big monster who tries to enter the over world.
You have different enemies trough the game as you continue, like bigger soldiers, different weapons, giant spider, creatures, etc.
You have pleasant surprises like a scene on the underworld where many leaves are falling down and you actually move them as you go through.
As you can see, you have a lot of things to do. But, to be honest, the game is too difficult. Many stages are too extensive. In many things, the map could help you with the camera angle trouble. What is too difficult with the camera is when you have to jump on the ship stage. An improvement to the story could be congratulate the user eventually for accomplish goals because the story just continues and it seems that you are not advancing.
 

not as good as it looks

Though my criticism is going to hurt all the fans of this game but I must be honest. The game's good great graphics, enemies and surroundings. The designes and makers were brilliant and did produce an awesome game. Two bad things are that there are too many enemies (though I dont mind) coming to fight and sometimes the characters do not follow commands as I've spend 3 days bashing my head on the floor, now I've got a headache.

Most of the time you try to attack but the characters take too long to follow and end up being stricken. Unlike Defiance it has camera angel problems as well as the ability to set your nerves on fire. I wouldnt recommend this to people who have anger management problem, short temper but I would recommend it for people who are mad about samurai games
 

grand theft dollar (again)

Cheaply made game, as usual. Took my money for nothing. It has a very nice cover, but that's it. Don't be fooled by the cover.
 

It's what you'd expect if you've played the first one

Yep, Genji: Days of the Blade pretty much uses the same mechanics as the first one - so if you liked the first one you'll like the second one. There were a few problems that I encountered, namely save points. Many of the levels don't have a lot of save points and especially when you really need them, although one level in particular seemed to have a good enough amount of save points. One more problem I didn't like about the game was that the first game had more interesting and difficult boss battles - I wasn't really interested in most of the boss battles and most of them were easy for me. I'm playing it a second time on hard so I'm not sure yet if these battles will be more difficult yet.

Additional info for Genji: Days of The Blade

Features:

Twice as many missions as the original - Twice the amount of gameplay (over 15 hours total)

Rich storyline influenced on historical Japanese events - 3 years after Genji - Dawn of the Samurai

4 playable characters interchangeable at any time, producing devastating team-based fighting combos

Over hundreds of on-screen enemies and incredible fighting sequences on horseback