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      Released in Japan in late 2000 and the US and Europe in early 2001, Kengo: Master of Bushido was the spiritual successor to the Bushido Blade series. The only connection to the Bushido Blade series, however, is the developer, and the only part that was successful was that it tricked me into buying it when I was a foolish teenager. In much the same way, this LP is the spiritual successor to my Superhot LP. The only connection to that LP, however, is that they both have katanas in them, and the only part that was successful was that I brought back my Special thanks to CJacobs for providing images and thumbnails! CirclMastr fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Oct 3, 2016 18:53
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 Time to find out why this game was critically panned on release (and ever since).
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Oct 3, 2016 18:55
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I still suspect this game of being a really elaborate prank on the video game industry
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Oct 3, 2016 19:28
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I own and played this game and it is very bad, but I somehow enjoyed it in spite of that??
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Oct 3, 2016 19:58
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Oct 3, 2016 20:18
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It's kinda fun once you grind your stats up but then you figure out a few combos the AI can't deal with body pierce - body pierce - armor pierce.
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Oct 3, 2016 20:51
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This looks like a fun idea for a game. Shame they apparently hosed it up.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:26
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Anime Reference posted:This looks like a fun idea for a game. Shame they apparently hosed it up. It's more that the start of the game sucks balls. Once your stats get around 2k-2500 you start being able to actually do stuff consistently.
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Oct 3, 2016 21:34
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dis astranagant posted:It's more that the start of the game sucks balls. Once your stats get around 2k-2500 you start being able to actually do stuff consistently. This. It's almost entirely this.
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Oct 4, 2016 00:25
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I mean "Stuff" is a fairly generous word
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Oct 4, 2016 00:59
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So you start the game basically about as competent as a dork that bought a katana off the internet and thinks he's Rurouni Kenshin would be. "Oh, you think you're a great hero? Get wrecked, mate!" Now someone needs to make a military sim that starts you out as the kind of guy who thinks this stuff is tactical.
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Oct 4, 2016 13:30
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This game looks terrible. I'm going to enjoy it. 
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Oct 4, 2016 13:58
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Bushido Blade was great, so I was somewhat interested in this game back in the early days of the PS2. Never ended up buying this and just stuck with Bushido Blade, though, which seems to have been a wise decision on my part.
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Oct 4, 2016 14:03
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Is it like Way of the Samurai but without the content?
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Oct 4, 2016 14:40
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SelenicMartian posted:Is it like Way of the Samurai but without the content? And with terrible controls, sheesh that looks bad. Did you need to cleanse your palate of good games after finishing Super Hot?
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Oct 4, 2016 15:22
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I can appreciate the general concept of a historical sword nerd machismo simulator, but uh... wow. I don't know what to say to this. However, I do have a question: Why is the man diaper labeled Middle Mountain?
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Oct 4, 2016 16:44
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SelenicMartian posted:Is it like Way of the Samurai but without the content? If you want to know about content, just wait until you see how short this game is. Fish Noise posted:I can appreciate the general concept of a historical sword nerd machismo simulator, but uh... wow. I don't know what to say to this. Much like how all the gimmicky motion controls in the world could be justified by one good lightsaber game, this concept had potential at some point. Probably during the pitch meeting. But the many bad choices between then and the game actually being released led to the train wreck on display.
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Oct 4, 2016 17:09
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They ended up making 3 of these. The other 2 have a lot more actual game involved and much less spamming terrible minigames. This one just missed being a launch title and they clearly just tossed what they had on a cd and sent it out the door.
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Oct 4, 2016 17:34
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I was going to say I owned and enjoyed this in my youth. But after looking at it realised I only rented and briefly played this. I do recall getting bored of the minigames. I did own the second one which was more enjoyable from my hazy recollection. It had a sense of danger when fighting with live swords as you can one hit kill and be killed during those duels.
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Oct 4, 2016 18:43
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CirclMastr posted:If you want to know about content, just wait until you see how short this game is. In compesation i remember one of its sequels being nightmarishly obtuse to finish
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Fish Noise posted:However, I do have a question: Why is the man diaper labeled Middle Mountain? I want to thanks you for this because I was too afraid to ask. Also: 
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I want you all to know that my search history now includes "Japanese Training Loincloth".  I thought the text might be a traditional thing, but not as far as I can tell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundoshi
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Oct 5, 2016 12:42
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Having actually spent (only) a year learning shinkendo, I'm not sure what to say. With only that training, and being way out of practice, I'm pretty sure I could beat our poor guy here. I recognize a lot of stances and moves, but one doesn't usually (in my experience) hold that high stance as a neutral stance; it puts your sword way far away, so there aren't many viable defensive options. Speaking of defense, I wince every time I see someone block with a katana, as shown in this game. Defense mostly consists of either a) getting out of the way, or b) deflecting a strike, and turning its momentum into a strike or movement of your own. The  above, I admit, might well be flawed. It's only from my experience of doing the art for a year, about a decade ago. 
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Oct 6, 2016 00:17
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Please tell me the move names are correct to the moves.
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Oct 6, 2016 01:07
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I loved Bushido Blade. It was/is my favorite fighting game. Learning of the existence of this "spiritual successor" fills me with a deep sadness. Kengo makes me weep Like a lost cherry blossom My heart drifts and sinks
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Oct 6, 2016 01:27
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Despite all the bitching, Shadow Strike is one of the best openers in the game. It's ridiculously fast, covers a lot more ground than you'd think, and can lead into some really strong poo poo. Leave the footwork to the dimbots and punish them for basically everything with it. They run in -> sword to the face. They're Fudo or Kumomushin style -> sword to the face. They get blocked too hard -> sword to the face.
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I think I remember playing this. I loved the first two Bushido Blade games (which are not this), and I picked up either this, or the sequel to this because it was supposed to be a successor. I remember fumbling around with the controls, finally getting to the first fight against an opposing dojo master in a friendly duel, at which point I accidentally murdered him through no control of my own, and then all of his students were after me with real swords against my kendo stick, and I promptly died immediately. gently caress Kengo.  [EDIT]And for clarity, this post was made before watching the video, which will probably jog my memory. I've got it bookmarked for when I'm not at work.
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Oct 6, 2016 02:42
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CirclMastr posted:Please tell me the move names are correct to the moves. Not sure. We mostly only learned proper names for kata, not for individual strikes. The names we did learn (forms and moves alike), I don't remember.
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dis astranagant posted:Despite all the bitching, Shadow Strike is one of the best openers in the game. It's ridiculously fast, covers a lot more ground than you'd think, and can lead into some really strong poo poo. Leave the footwork to the dimbots and punish them for basically everything with it. They run in -> sword to the face. They're Fudo or Kumomushin style -> sword to the face. They get blocked too hard -> sword to the face. Some forms you could make were just ridiculous in their ability to get poo poo done. Checking my old-rear end save game, I had a form that went Crouched Slash -> Parting Mist -> Flying Swallow. It didn't look impressive in the practice menu, but once you were in a fight, it had insane coverage, as the first two strikes would cover anyone directly ahead of you, while the final strike would send you leaping forward and slashing a wide area in front. Most of the time I would just spam this, as it had minor homing abilities. Very few of the AI characters could dodge it. Hell, I think Flying Swallow carried me through a lot of poo poo. Edit: Turns out I'm still "good" at the game years later. You'll notice in the fight against Genpo that Flying Swallow is really good for striking idiots that dodge behind you. Also it's really important to learn how to cancel your combos, because hammering on the strike button will get your rear end killed. Neurion fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Oct 7, 2016 |
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Oct 7, 2016 00:48
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 Danaru and I actually introduce ourselves this episode, because we are consummate professionals.
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"It is impossible to raise attack power consistently" with your parry and hit dudes in the back a billion times with your weakest combo tactic, maybe.
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Can we grind low-level students for stats?
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CommissarMega posted:Can we grind low-level students for stats? Not any more we can't. From this point on fights with wooden swords give poo poo for stats.
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Oct 11, 2016 03:58
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Oh Christ. I remember this game. Things went downhill fast for me once fighting people with real swords came around.
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Oct 11, 2016 08:59
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CommissarMega posted:Can we grind low-level students for stats? I love this question because from what I've seen, the game forces you to grind, both for max stats and effective stats, but then also discourages you from grinding at the same time by making it super painful to grind effective stats. You just have to constantly slam your face into the pavement until you get lucky enough to land the right combos. It's been weeks since we recorded this and it still keeps me up at night. Why is it this way.
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This game was made at a 24 hour game jam, which had the misfortune of being run on Opposite Day. So anything that is counter to proper game design or fun got crammed into Kengo.
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dis astranagant posted:They ended up making 3 of these. The other 2 have a lot more actual game involved and much less spamming terrible minigames. This one just missed being a launch title and they clearly just tossed what they had on a cd and sent it out the door. Apparently there was four total - The second, sword of the samurai, is comparatively lighter and vastly improved. The third was Japan only, and the fourth, Kengo:Legacy of the nine on the 360, focused more on historical personalities like Musashi, Okita Soji, Sasaki Kojiro and more. It had multiple story modes, which in theory would make for good LP material.
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Sword of the Samurai is weird. Your forms get 1 canned combo and then something like 18 slots for guard breakers and just guard counters. And I never did figure out just how you learn new moves, they just kinda happen after fights.
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So, any chance of a link for that Way of the Samurai lp? I'm not finding anything on the Master List except for a screenshot lp of the first game.
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