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PSP do not have many fighting games. We do have fighting games from Capcom (Darkstalkers,
Street fghter series), Def Jam and Tekken. However, we do have another fighting game which is made
by 8Ring and published by SONY, which is the Bleach: Heat the Soul series.
This is a review on the 3rd installation of the series.
Graphics:
After 3 installations, you would have think that the graphics in the series will improve, right?
You are DEAD wrong. It seems that 8Ring is content with the graphics in the game and NOT MUCH
changes has been made since the 1st series. Not that the graphics is bad but improvements would be nice.
Pure laziness IMO. We are still seeing the same cel-shaded graphics, jagged edges, same old stages (with
some extras). The only addition that I managed to notice is the improvement on the shadows and some
minor changes (example is the trail of your powers executed) Not much to brag about here.
Graphics: 7/10 (pure laziness of 8Ring)
Controls:
let see, we have one button for weak slash, one button for strong slash, one button for jump,
one button for reisatsu (or Ki) and the shoulder button for Striker (helper ala KOF). Control are
quite responsive, but it is helped by the simple control in the game. You only need the up, down,
left and right movement corresponding with the correct buttons. No qcf notation, or down-forward
or down-back movement (except for up-forward for jumping). No complaint here.
Controls: 8/10 (responsive and simple control)
Sound:
The music in this game is mundane. I can't even recall one memorable bgm from this game.
And much of it are recycled from the previous installations. And we still get the usual sound effect
and cries and the sword swinging sound. The speechs are done nicely here. It seems that they
are from the same voice actors from the anime series. Pretty good stuff.
Sound: 8/10
Gameplay:
After 2 installations, you would think that there will be a big improvement to the 3rd one, isn't it?
Well, yes and no. First of all, there are no story mode in the game. Well, actually there is but it is
called Mission mode. In this mode, you will enact out all the fights in the anime series with certain
condition. For example, the battle between Ichigo and Zaraki Kenpachi. You will need to execute the
Striker, which is Zangeku at the moment, to help in the battle while Kenpachi is in Super Armour mode
(he didn't flinch from your attack, just like the anime!) This is a nice addition IMO. And your reward for
compelting each battle is a short snippets taken directly from the anime. Of course you will not understand
it since all is in Japanese with no subtitles This is the only fine point of the game.
Another new mode is the Soul Road mode. it is basically identical to Soulcaibur Mission mode where you
wonder around the map with a partner of your choosing. Basically you will enter battle with conditions
attached to it. The main objective is to raise your partner trust in you by winning matches. Doing this will
unlocked costumes for the partners which you can used during battle.
Oh, and we have more characters now. Basically every characters thyat we know of, even the
non-combatants like Nanao and Nemu. There are some omissions like Tousen and Unohana. Unohana
is an understanable omission since she did not fight in the anime, but Tousen? A big WTF omission as
we have his deputy in the game! And despite the huge roster here, the gameplay is ...LAME! Except for
Bankai Byakuya, Bankai Renji, Kurotsuchi Mayuri and Komamura (we get to control his huge ass Bankai!),
the rest of the cast play almost identically. Their combos are all perform almost identical which can always
be X,X,X,O,Square, Super power.... Pretty boring after a while. Would have wish they have more variety
in term of character fighting techniques. With mundane combos to perform, this almost kill the game and
a lot of people prefer the NDS Bleach which has inferior graphics but superior fighting system and combos.
If this is the first Bleach, it would be forgiven but this is the 3rd in the series. A tweak in the fighting system
would have been great and refreshing.
This game should have been the first Bleach game on PSP. It would have gotten great review for it, but
with 3rd release, buyers can see that 8Ring has been lazy and only add more characters, few stages,
add a few clips from the anime and that's it. This is what I called a half-assed effort. Definetly not worth
the money for you to buy f you already have the previous 2 installations. Strictly for die hard Bleach fans.
Rent it first before commiting yourself to buy it.
[Review][PSP] Game: Bleach 3: Heat The Soul
This is the only fine point of the game.
Linear Mode
