Bleach: Dark Souls

by Sega Of America, Inc.

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• Bleach: Dark Souls DS

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• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00162CMRU
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5 x 0.8 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 7, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,283 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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The Bleach: Dark Souls story

Based on the popular anime series currently in its second season on Adult Swim, Bleach: Dark Souls features a newly enhanced battle system. With new online multiplayer options and enhanced battle strategies, players can fight in dramatic high-action sword clashes via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection as one of 44 characters. The branching storyline created exclusively for Nintendo DS systems allows players to fight on the side of good or evil for the first time in the series as the evil "Hollows" have finally found a way to infiltrate Soul Society.

Game Features What's new Bleach: Dark Souls features an immense cast of 44 characters--it has the largest roster of playable characters in a Bleach video game to-date. Featuring multiplayer battles with new personalization options and 4-player online battles, players can now display an icon they created, send messages to friends, and hold online events. Players can even fight in team-based battles for the first time in the series. Returning characters can now inflict massive damage with additional moves, including new Bankai moves taken directly from the TV series. Seven thrilling gameplay modes including Story, Arcade, Versus, Training, Challenge, Time Attack and Survival , as well as over 100 mission-based battles and strategic scenarios, will provide hours of replayability. Strategy With over 90 cards (including 30 new Spirit Cards), players have more strategy options including the ability to speed, slow, or stop the timer during a match. New Reiju Crystals further enhance the power of player’s constructed card decks. Exclusive Bleach content. Extras Brand new game extras include a new in-depth Bleach series encyclopedia, Hollow characters, multiple costumes, Wallpapers and password protected content. Based on the popular anime series now in its second season on Adult Swim. This is the anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed Bleach: The Blade of Fate. All 44 characters are voiced by the actors from the anime series.

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Product Description

BLEACH: Dark Souls game for Nintendo DS marks the expansion of a dynamic cast of over 40 playable characters including Rukia, Kon and hero Ichigo. Gamers can spend hours furiously fighting while unlocking individual character stories, all based on an exclusive story arc created for BLEACH: Dark Souls. The game continues to allow gamers to build customized Spirit Card Decks, this time with the addition of power-enhancing Reiju Crystals to boost their character's heath, attack strength and defense power cards. BLEACH: Dark Souls features four player multiplayer battles via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and DS Download Play. Players can battle each other at the same time or form tag teams for team play. Finally, BLEACH fans will enjoy using the newly included encyclopedia that offers detailed explanations of the BLEACH world, character info, descriptions of their attacks and a full glossary of BLEACH terms.

Players will face a variety of opponents as one of 44 highly-stylized characters in intense action-packed battles based on the animated series. For the first time ever, players will be able to assume the role of Evil Hollows, adding a new twist for gamers to explore.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best U.S. fighting game for DS, no doubt about it!, October 22, 2008

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Benpachi (CT) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bleach: Dark Souls (Video Game)

The Nintendo DS is definitely lacking in the fighting department, the only other DS fighter that is remotely as good as this is it's predecessor, Bleach: The Blade of Fate. This installment in the Bleach series is not too different from The Blade of Fate to be honest, but it has enough additions to make it a worthy purchase, especially if you are a fan of the Manga/Anime. There is an expanded cast of playable characters, 44 in total. That being said, there are way too many joke characters in this game. Several characters are totally useless, and really, who would want to play as a Hollow when you can be one of the Elite Soul Reapers? The only real benefit of the expanded roster in comparison to The Blade of Fate is having a greater variety of characters to beat on. Overall this game seems faster to me than the previous game, which is definitely a plus. When 4 players are in a free-for-all, you will not see a hint of slowdown, definitely a plus. Story Mode has a decent length and will definitely take you awhile to achieve 100% completion on all difficulties. You no longer have to play through every single mission again in order to unlock everything, once you beat the game you can skip over missions that you have already completed. The card system is better, you can now have 4 cards to choose from at once instead of just 2. The Reiju crystals add a bit to the character balance, you can take a painfully slow character like Sajin Komamura and make him fast enough to keep up with the likes of Ichigo, which makes Komamura nearly unstoppable (huge plus for me as he is my favorite character). For those of you that are into wifi gaming, you'll have to buy this version since everyone playing Bleach online will be playing Dark Souls as opposed to the Blade of Fate. In short, this is more like Blade of Fate version 1.5, but it's the best Bleach game you can get and definitely the best DS fighter that you can buy short of importing the Jump! games.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great DS Fighting game, July 19, 2009

By 

J. J. ALWARD (Buffalo, NY) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bleach: Dark Souls (Video Game)

This is the best fighting game for the DS I've played to date. Its easy to pickup and just jump right into, but also has the tutorials, guides, and in-game store to expand your gameplay experience.

On the upside, it gives you what you want in a fighting game. Wide range of characters to choose from, with a variety of abilities (different offensive, defensive, speed, and special capabilities). Play is smooth and surprisingly responsive for a handheld. Also the touch-screen special moves is implemented very well. If you use the touch-screen to make a special attack that same special locks out for about 3 seconds to prevent spamming (button-masher syndrome), but if you take the time to learn the actual direction-pad input for the move (ie down, forward, attack) you can use the special freely. Also the inclusion of the spirit cards lets you further customize your play.

On the downside, story mode is kinda short. Further, to complete the game 100% you need to go back and beat each mission 3 times (on each difficulty, Easy, Medium, and Hard). Some of the missions are ridiculous on Hard.

DS download play does let you play with 3 other people who don't own the cartridge, but load times are slow (1-2 minutes per load). It has to load before you select characters, and again after character select/before match start. At the end of the match it offers you "replay yes/no". If you hit "yes" everyone plays again immediately with the same characters, if you hit "no" it loads again and you're back at character select.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Resurrection, June 30, 2009

By 

J. Sherman "The Critic" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bleach: Dark Souls (Video Game)

The second DS game based on the popular action anime, "Dark Souls" feels more like a thinly-disguised extension of the original game than a true sequel (like "Street Fighter II" or "Tekken 5"). If you played "Blade of Fate," you'll instantly recognize the different game modes, the original character roster, the Touch Screen controls that activate both special moves and Spirit Cards, and even the battlegrounds. But this installment adds just enough to make the purchase/trade-in worth your while. In fact, you could say "Dark Souls" fixes everything that was wrong with "Blade of Fate."

For example, in Story Mode--focusing on an original plot penned by "Bleach" creator Tite Kubo--you play through dozens of mini games instead of fights using every single character. While the rewards you earn include new fighters and cards, you also get to fight--and play as--the soul-eating Hollows. And though the Touch Screen lets you use more Spirit Cards at once, limitations have been placed on deck construction and hot keys to prevent abuse. The folks at Sega even throw in a special encyclopedia with character profiles and a glossary of terms from the show. And the sounds of the game--including voices from the show--are as sharp and crisp as ever. So if you can overcome that feeling of déjà vu, you'll see that "Dark Souls" is merely icing on the cake.

This game is rated T for Teen: Violence, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, References to Alcohol.