7 Blades

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Seventeenth-century Japan, a man-made island crowded with foreign traders, rebels plotting against the shogunate and a lone swordsman for hire: 7 Blades sets its stage with the swagger of a samurai movie, and that is no accident. Konami built it with filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi, who spun the game out of his 1990 film Zipang and, despite never having worked on a video game before, took creative control of its story, dialogue and action.

The setting is Dejima, the artificial island where the Tokugawa shogunate confined Western foreigners. Your main hero is Gokurakumaru, a violent mercenary and hopeless womanizer who collects the seven blades of the title one by one, each changing how he fights. His bumbling sidekick Togizo carries the swords he wins and supplies much of the comic relief. Then there is Oyuri, Gokurakumaru's gun-toting love interest, who fights from a distance with firearms, giving her side of the adventure a very different rhythm from his charge-in swordplay. The two storylines branch and intersect, an idea Hayashi felt was only possible in a game.

It is very much an early PlayStation 2 production, developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan over more than two years with a team of around twenty. The project began life as an original PlayStation game, and the move to the new hardware let the team throw up to twenty enemies at you at once where the older console could handle three. It has the rough edges of first-generation 3D action, but its cinematic ambition and its pairing of swordplay with gunplay give it a flavor all its own.

7 Blades launched in Japan in December 2000, about a month ahead of Capcom's Onimusha, reached PAL regions in 2001 and never received a North American release. That makes it a real import curiosity for PS2 collectors, and a snapshot of the moment when Japanese filmmakers and game studios first started blurring the line between cinema and play.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2000
Publisher
Konami
Developer
Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Players
Single player
About the game

7 Blades is an action-adventure video game developed by Konami for the PlayStation 2.

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