Kengo: Master of Bushido (PS2) > Reviews (2)

Ever wanted to be a samurai, well now is your chance.
Kengo claims to be a realistic samurai expeirance, and to be honest (not that i'm a samurai) it isn't. But it is a good game.
There are three different types of gameplay: Single Player(story mode) Tornament(arcade) and vs battle.

Single player
Here you get a choice of three wannabe samurai's they all vary in skill, after you chose a character you then get to choose a dojo, every Dojo has a different skill level too such as a difference in speed, strength and style. Once you are ready you will start with a test match, within which you’ll get your arse totally wupped by a expert samurai, the challenge is to last as long as you can. Once you’ve taken a kicking you’ll have some training options which basicaly show you how to play. Next you are to face a selction of Dojo’s, where you are pitted against the Dojo masters students and then finally the master who if you beat you will take his sword, each Dojo masters sword has a different special move, and as you defeat each Dojo you will learn their special moves. The moves you learn can be linked together to make your own combo’s! Eventually with the right amount of training your character is invited to a “IMPERIAL MATCH!!!” Where you will be given a metal sword to fight with as oppose to the wooden sword you use whilst defeating the Dojo’s.

Combo editor
The moves you learn whilst fighting can be edited together to make three hit combos, this proves to be very useful as you can customise your attacks to beat the opposing fighters style.

Ki
Your Ki level symbolises your speed and strength whilst in combat, your Ki meter appears at the bottom of the screen, you can chant (press circle) to make it go up or pull of a parry (square), but if you block attacks to much it will go down rendering you slow and weak.

Tornament mode
Basically you get a wide variety of acomplished samuria’s to choose from, with which you will fight as many people as possible.

Vs
Two Player versus battle.

Sound
The sound to kengo is very minimal there is one song at the title sequence, and from there out there are a few sword noises and a lot of yapping dogs in the background, its quite annoying really. I ended up turning the sound off after about ten minutes.

Graphics
The graphics are good, very minimal but very smooth , what else is there to say about graphics?

Overall I’ve enjoyed playing kengo, its very fast and quite addictive. Baring a resemblance to the PS1’s ‘Bushido Blade’ but also original in its own way.
Kengo is worth a buy at fifteen pounds from Asda.