Product Description

• Large cast of popular characters. All 28 characters are voiced by the actors from the anime series.
• Exciting four-player fighting action. Up to four players will enjoy battling via Wi-Fi with their friends or with gamers across the country.
• Multi-plane 2D fighting arenas. Now you can switch between upper and lower battlelines to chase after or escape from enemies.
• Special attacks to master. Players can inflict massive damage on opponents with special Combos and Super Power Attacks taken directly from the series.
• Customisable Spirit Card Deck. Using the stylus, you'll quickly access cards on the lower screen to boost Health, Attack and Defense power, and much more.
• Seven thrilling gameplay modes. Story, Arcade, Versus, Training and Challenge modes along with two unlockable modes bring hours of enthralling gameplay.
• Story arc builds off the TV series. The central storyline stays true to the anime series and includes extra unlockable chapters which serve as a prequel to the storyline.
• Unlockable extras. As you progress through the game, unlock costumes, story content and several characters, including one who is very close to our main character, Ichigo.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4101 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2008-02-29
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Rating Pending
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Dimensions: .10 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review

Portable consoles don’t seem an obvious home for beat ‘em-ups, but they have been made to work before and never more successfully than with this game. Created by cult Japanese developer Treasure, the game is based on the popular anime Bleach--but whether you’re familiar with the characters and storyline doesn’t really matter. All you have to do is be able to appreciate a good fighter, and this is certainly that with four players on screen at once, a mountain of special moves, and even an online two-player mode.

Manufacturer's Description

POPULAR ANIME SERIES MAKES VIDEO GAME DEBUT

BLEACH, the global smash-hit anime series is starting to make it's presence known across Europe. Now you can get into the action and experience BLEACH firsthand in videogame form on Nintendo DS.

BLEACH: The Blade of Fate follows the life of a 15-year-old boy who is able to see spirits and discovers he has supernatural powers. Playing as one of your favourite 28 characters from the series, you will master their special attacks, Bankai transformations and Zanpaku-to's as you battle a wide variety of opponents in a twisting storyline filled with surprises.

Customer Reviews

Best fighter on the DS... For a while
Bleach: The blade of fate for the DS is a very enjoyable Fighting game for a Bleach fan such as myself.

I don't usually play fighting games but this one is very easy to play with 3 difficulties to choose from, 27 characters to choose ( majority of them have to be unlocked ).

Story mode is pretty decent, nearly every character has a story, 23 stories to choose from and new characters are unlocked by completing them.

Other modes include, Arcade Mode, Time attack mode, Survival Mode, Training Mode and Online Wi-fi Battling.

The Wi-fi battling is terrible due to very bad lag, this is not because of connections ( i was playing with a full green bar, as was my opponent) but the online mode lags because of the Cards you use which cause the battle to lag.. So i just avoid online mode and stick to the offline mode.

Fighting is very easy to get used to, You don't have to learn every combo in the game as you can choose the special move you want to use by pressing one of the buttons on the touch screen. This is a very good feature to the game if you keep forgetting the button combinations.

You earn money from most fights in the game and money can be spent in the Urahara shop on many items such as, New voices, New spirit cards, New costume colours for characters, Art pictures and music.

This game is an excellent game for Bleach fans and fighting fans and i think it is a very enjoyable game, But don't expect an amazing online experience but stick to the offline.. its much better.

A must for Bleach fan
Well, it's Bleach game so of course, it's a must for Bleach fans. The controls are easy and for someone like me who always have trouble remembering all the combination for special moves (which include all shikai and bankai moves), there is the convenient auto mode that you just touch whichever move you want to perform on the touch screen. Then there is the all good flash step.

It says it stays true to the original storyline but because episode 1 is Ichigo-centric, it's actually not THAT true although the backbone of it matches the original Bleach.

You can adjust the difficult setting and if you set it easy to begin with, it's hard to die even on your first play. It gives you chance to get used to controls. Spiritual cards are another that you can use in battles to help you but in admist of all frantic pushing buttons, sometimes the light touch on touch screen doesn't quite reach the character.

But each character has moves that has been aired on the original anime, not to mention kidous as well, like Byakuya's favourite bakudou 61. There are bankai as well for those characters that have already showed them off including Ichigo.

There are 23 episodes in total but except for Ichigo's one, the others are all relatively short. There is no spoiler for any story from Soul Society arc onwards so if you are watching Bounto arc or further ahead, you are safe. Otherwise, I say don't play this game till you finish Soul Society arc 'cuz it'll be major spoiler.

As it progresses, you have to fight against two, three characters at once. Pairs are what you would expect ie Tousen and Komamura/Kyouraku and Ukitake. I haven't played medium/hard difficulty yet but at easy level, it's easy enough to win in auto mode.

The voices are done by English actors, not original Japanese actors. As one who hates English dubbing, the voices made me cringe but it actually had the orignial opening song, Ichirin no Hana, which I thought was nice touch.

I've got Bleach Wii as well and the gameplay system, I think DS is easier (simpler?) than Wii, although it's just my opinion. I liked Wii as well since it's got slightly different play system and moves. Well, if you are a Bleach fan, just getting to play your fav character -and shouting bankai if yours has one- is worth getting this game, I say.

I LOVE TOSHIRO
Oh my gosh. Everything I expected and more. I'd searched for this game for a while and when I finally got my hands on a copy, I was not dissapointed! I would point any Bleach fans in it's direction as there are episode like parts to the game and then the game it's self. You can play as most charcters from the soul society saga in the anime and their abilities on the game match those from the series including the use of bankai. I love it although it didn't take too long to complete. It did, however, take a while to understand how to set up the vesus mode but when I'd done it once, it was easy. I gave it 4 stars because it could have been better and was over too quickly but it's still a very good game that I still play despite completing it.