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Kengo Master Bushido
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Sealed: the original seal is intact. Any flaw in the seal is noted here and shown in the photos, which are of this exact item. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Before Kengo, Light Weight made its name with Bushido Blade, the PlayStation duelist where one clean strike could end a match. Kengo: Master of Bushido is what the studio did next, a samurai sword-fighting game for the young PlayStation 2 that cares less about spectacle than about the slow, disciplined work of becoming a swordsman. Crave Entertainment brought it to North America at the start of 2001, only a few months into the console's life, and it still feels unlike anything else in the early PS2 library.
The single-player heart of the game is a career. You choose an apprentice and one of eight dojos, each with its own school of swordsmanship, and then you train. The training is wonderfully old-school: stand inside a ring of lit candles and snuff them all with a single stroke, clear a field of bamboo, sit through Zen meditation without nodding off, endure a freezing waterfall beneath the spray. Training builds your swordsman's skills and real duels push them further, so every fight counts.
Combat is built on block, parry and strike, with stances that change what each direction-plus-strike produces. Face a rival school and you can absorb its techniques, then assemble your own three-move combos and assign them to the shoulder buttons, so two players following the same path can end up fighting very differently. A ki meter tied to how honorably you fight has to be managed through every duel, and heavy blows leave an opponent bleeding. Defeat your own dojo's master, then challenge the rival schools, each victory earning a sword with a secret technique, and work toward the tournaments where real steel replaces the wooden bokken. A two-player versus mode and a tournament run against a long line of warriors round out the package.
Kengo is deliberate and stubbornly traditional, and critics in 2001 were split on whether that was a flaw or the whole point. The players who love it love exactly that: the quiet dojos, the patience of each duel, the feeling that every technique was earned. The series carried on with further sequels, which makes this first PS2 entry the starting point of the line, and it is a satisfying way to own a piece of the bridge between Bushido Blade and the samurai games that followed.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2000
- Publisher
- Crave Entertainment
- Developer
- Light Weight
- Genre
- Fighting
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer
About the game
The mind is a powerful weapon. So is the sword. When combined, they create the ultimate force. To be a Samurai master, you must silence one and make fierce the other. The rhythm of battle awaits you. Now, go young apprentice, and earn your glory.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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PlayStation 2
Kengo Master Bushido
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PlayStation 2
Kengo Master Bushido
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