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Muramasa The Demon Blade
System: Nintendo Wii
Rating: T
I grabbed this game last Christmas on a whim just like I bought Okami the Christmas before that on a whim.
Both of these games I enjoyed a lot. But the one this post is about is Muramasa the Demon Blade. Reason being is that everytime I mention it nearly nobody knows of it. And this was brought up in Nintendo Power once as one of the games that are really good but very few people know about it. Nintendo Power's guess as to why in that section is because how Japanese it is...and it is VERY centered around stuff that only someone very deep in Japanese culture, history and the names of the places years and years ago would get some of the stuff in the game.
But you don't really need it to enjoy the two stories of Momohime and Kisuke, the to characters you can play the stories of, and enjoy fighting enemies and the powers the different swords had and also enjoying the environments you traveled in. The backgrounds and places you travel through are beautiful, such as the ones of the towns you go through with cherry blossom trees with petals floating around you, the water in the river near by reflecting off on the stones and sky of stars that actually looks believable. It looks like a moving Japanese ink painting.
You are able to feel for the characters your playing as well. There's Momohime the princess of Narukami who was to be wed to a noble samurai Yukinojo before the swordsmen Jinkuro tried to steal Yukinojo's body and Momohime in intervening ends up becoming a soul and having her body taken over by Jinkuro until he can find a way to reverse it. Then there's Kisuke a ninja who is apart of the ninja under the service of Yukinojo who now has amnesia and is being hunted due to a crime he can no longer remember and is also in love with Torahime, Momohime's older sister and the protector of a deadly Muramasa Blade.
Each character has three different endings depending on the sword your holding when you fight the final boss at the end of their stories and you get those swords through forging them and beating challenges. There are also three difficulty levels, the first two are available from the moment you start playing, the third needs to be unlocked and it is the most difficult because you are given only one point of health.
The game is based around the legend and stories about the Muramasa swords. A swords maker with the last name Muramasa was supposedly insane and that insanity got transferred into his blades which due to suspensions of them being cursed due to so many tragedies relating to them were banned from being used in the Japanese forces during that time period in Japan.
If you ever see this in a Game Stop or whatever store you frequent for video games and your looking for something different with RPG elements in order to level up your character and old school traditional 2D side scrolling I highly recommend it.
System: Nintendo Wii
Rating: T
I grabbed this game last Christmas on a whim just like I bought Okami the Christmas before that on a whim.
Both of these games I enjoyed a lot. But the one this post is about is Muramasa the Demon Blade. Reason being is that everytime I mention it nearly nobody knows of it. And this was brought up in Nintendo Power once as one of the games that are really good but very few people know about it. Nintendo Power's guess as to why in that section is because how Japanese it is...and it is VERY centered around stuff that only someone very deep in Japanese culture, history and the names of the places years and years ago would get some of the stuff in the game.
But you don't really need it to enjoy the two stories of Momohime and Kisuke, the to characters you can play the stories of, and enjoy fighting enemies and the powers the different swords had and also enjoying the environments you traveled in. The backgrounds and places you travel through are beautiful, such as the ones of the towns you go through with cherry blossom trees with petals floating around you, the water in the river near by reflecting off on the stones and sky of stars that actually looks believable. It looks like a moving Japanese ink painting.
You are able to feel for the characters your playing as well. There's Momohime the princess of Narukami who was to be wed to a noble samurai Yukinojo before the swordsmen Jinkuro tried to steal Yukinojo's body and Momohime in intervening ends up becoming a soul and having her body taken over by Jinkuro until he can find a way to reverse it. Then there's Kisuke a ninja who is apart of the ninja under the service of Yukinojo who now has amnesia and is being hunted due to a crime he can no longer remember and is also in love with Torahime, Momohime's older sister and the protector of a deadly Muramasa Blade.
Each character has three different endings depending on the sword your holding when you fight the final boss at the end of their stories and you get those swords through forging them and beating challenges. There are also three difficulty levels, the first two are available from the moment you start playing, the third needs to be unlocked and it is the most difficult because you are given only one point of health.
The game is based around the legend and stories about the Muramasa swords. A swords maker with the last name Muramasa was supposedly insane and that insanity got transferred into his blades which due to suspensions of them being cursed due to so many tragedies relating to them were banned from being used in the Japanese forces during that time period in Japan.
If you ever see this in a Game Stop or whatever store you frequent for video games and your looking for something different with RPG elements in order to level up your character and old school traditional 2D side scrolling I highly recommend it.
