Though there's a heavy story influence, it has yet to be translated, so we had to skip past the reams of text and watch quizzically as the shout-fest cutscenes played out. Generally speaking, that’s the bulk of the missions. Along with an infinite dash that can be used for fast traversal across both ground and air and a lock-on/block move that helps with quick dashes, Ichigo is generally concerned with just hacking enemies to bits. Should one opt for just that triangle attack, it sucks energy from a special attack meter but spits out lancing walls of energy – useful for taking down airborne enemies, say. Ichigo has a standard quick attack that can be linked and/or finished with a ranged one by tapping Square a few billion times and ending with a press of the triangle button.
There’s no questioning the Dynasty Warriors influence. From there, it’s a matter of simply picking your character (though plenty were available, we stuck to the obviously-announced Ichigo) and plowing out into the desert to hack away at Hollows. There’s really not much to explain – take the familiar button mashing fun of Dynasty Warriors, fold in plenty of story-heavy cutscene exposition, and throw in plenty of big baddies and quickly felled mobs alike and you have the basic idea. In Japan, it’s apparently translated quite well, with Sony Computer Entertainment handling the publishing duties for a handful of titles that have sold well on the back of a phenomenally popular manga (and, of course, the anime). “Ridiculous,” is, of course, used in the most reverent sense, but often the scale of the battles (or even just one-off attacks) is so huge that one might wonder how it would translate to a game. Also, they are, all of them, awesome in varying degrees.Īnd so, on any given week, Ichigo and friends square off for half-hour-long tussles with increasingly ridiculous consequences.
The short version (and trust us, we're seriously whittling things down here) is that normal "I see icky things" Ichigo is well entrenched in the world of the Soul Society (don't sweat that it's deeper than we can explain here), of felling Hollows (big time bad guys they've got a pretty gaping hole in 'em, that's how you know), and generally getting along with fellow Shinigami types (they’re the whole Death God folks).
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