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Summary: Prima's Bushido Blade 2 Strategy Guide is a disappointment
Review: The Bushido Blade 2 strategy guide is not up to the high standard of Squaresoft's excellent game. Moves are not always attributed to the proper characters, the biographies of the characters are mostly badly written filler that you'd get from a quick run through of the game,the screenshots are too dark and too small to be of any real use, and the few character renders that are included are often overlaid with other graphics or charts that don't add much to your knowledge of the game itself. Minimal information, no bios and no pictures aside from more useless screenshots are included of the final boss characters despite the fact that this information would help clarify the game's storyline. This strategy guide is the only one available for Bushido Blade 2 but interested games should approach it with caution.
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Summary: Same again, same again...
Review: When I see a new guidebook for a fighting game of any sort, my heart fills with dread. Fighting games are as much of an art as the martial arts themselves, and guidebooks for such shuld be, nay, OUGHT to be perfect. Every combination for every move must be entered correctly, and if any moves are pictured, the frames must be clean, understandable, and large.The guidebook for Bushido Blade has none of these qualities. The offered material is of the kind most often found in the game's own instructional booklet, frequently misquoted at that. The moves are sometimes entered for the incorrect characters ( I imagine that numerous gamers will go mad while trying to perform a move that doesn't exist). Picture frames are often misplaced and smudged, defeating the entire purpose of their existense. For a game of such finesse as Bushido Blade II, Prima's guide does little to fill in the fine points of combat. Strategies that are given are often basic enough to be guessed. The information about the storyline, character background info and statistics, and other interesting and quirky data is contradictory and mostly useless. I can freely say that it is easier to master the game WITHOUT this guide, rather than with it.
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