Thursday, January 26, 2006

Hands on Preview Bleach DS


Bleach DS

Fighting. 1-4, Multicard, singelcard. Online

Gameplay:
Starts off with training. Basic moves. A X Y are all attack buttons. B is flash step. Jump by pressing up. You can double jump.
Touch screen is used for using "battle Cards" where they either target you, enemies or everybody. What they do is anyone's guess as it all stands is Japanese. There's a setup where you choose all your advance moves and "special" tricks with the touch screen. This means that I hardly use A / Y / X at all. So when playing CPU i only use the touch screen.
If you don't use the touch screen to fight (if you are 1337 or stupid)
You can do the advance moves by a combination of different buttons. Or button combinations ( like down, left, down, left A/B/Y).
you block with R and jump to background/foreground with L

Training was very fun. Even though you had to guess what to do.
when Fighting a CPU player I found the tricks to be boring and limited.
As far as i played you couldn't chain or make any special combos.
(bear in mind i have been playing a lot of DOA lately which is an awesome fighter and mind mind automatically compares them)

You also unlock new Battle cards which you use in your Deck.

Japanese:
After Half a min you understand all the menus. The only thing you miss out on is the deck and the challenge mode... (and reading the names on those Japs online)

Graphics:
good. Smooth and cleansprites. Some special effects with some moves but nothing really amazing.

Sound: Music is from the series. Intro song is the intro which is currently used in the Anime. And the battle music sounds like midi.

Online: Online is A LOT more fun than playing against a CPU. You can use the touch screen mode here also. Which means there a lot of special tricks being used at all time.
But Because Blocking Blocks all attacks there's a lot of strategy involved.
It was quite fun

characters:
there's a lot of them. Probably all you would want to play as. Even Kon.

Modes:
Story mode: Very strange. You play from level 2 to level 5 and then the game goes to level 2 again. there's level 3A and level 3B.. But it feels random as which level is next.
I have played trough level 2 to level 5 about 7 times and i get different fights some of the time. Every time you get a different fifth level you unlock a new person.

Arcade:
Like in normal fighting games. Chose from all of the characters.

Training:
Test your moves and the characters.

Vs:
Multicard
single card
vs CPU
Online

Challenge mode:
Probably something special you have to do... Not sure. It's in Japanese.

Urahara shop:
Buy new cards for your deck

Gallery:
Images and sounds from the anime

Options:
sound, control's etc.

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