Bushido Blade. A fighting game with a genuinely realistic damage model. Most hits will cripple or kill you, you really have to be on point and it's incredibly unforgiving.
It's also translated poorly so actually getting to the end is very unintuitive. It's completely possible to win every fight and still lose the game.
But my goodness it was such fun to actually play this game.
My friends and I used to play this for hours. You could have fights last 10+ minutes each or 10 seconds.
What you're saying about progression is on point. I did not even know you could progress further until one day I picked up to play, got as far as the guy with the gun (Katze maybe?), and died instantly. I freaked out because that had never happened before.
And if you dare interrupt the speech of the final boss while he's monologuing, because you can still control your character the whole time, then you get the bad ending lol.
Bushido Blade. A fighting game with a genuinely realistic damage model. Most hits will cripple or kill you, you really have to be on point and it's incredibly unforgiving.
It's also translated poorly so actually getting to the end is very unintuitive. It's completely possible to win every fight and still lose the game.
But my goodness it was such fun to actually play this game.
My friends and I used to play this for hours. You could have fights last 10+ minutes each or 10 seconds.
What you're saying about progression is on point. I did not even know you could progress further until one day I picked up to play, got as far as the guy with the gun (Katze maybe?), and died instantly. I freaked out because that had never happened before.
And if you dare interrupt the speech of the final boss while he's monologuing, because you can still control your character the whole time, then you get the bad ending lol.
Lol yes. Kage is a bastard.