fantasy

if you like swords in any way, get this game. i've played the first one and i liked that one a lot but it lacked what the second game has now and thats why this game is so great. graphics are great and two of the things i like is that you can choose a differnt way to play it everytime so you never get bored, and there are lots of sword. i perfer the bosses ones or leaders whatever you want to call them, theres like 15 of them, i've almost got all of thoughs but i still got a while to go. and once you get swords you can make them better by takeing them to the smith. another thing thats great in this game is that if you do something it can change the way all the characters in the game look at you, wich is pretty neat. the sword moves in the are sweet and you can always learn new ones.

like i said if you like samurais and swords, or just looking for a game with adventure get this one

I have owned the American version for about 1 week and I have been actively playing the game getting to several endings. I loved the first one. This one is far more complicated.This game is definately not for young children. There are themes here such as drug use, sex, and lots of violence. For the adults buying this game. Now back to the review although this game was far more expansive with many different characters, outfits and scenarios this game also has alot less fighting in most of the jobs that you must aquire to get money to buy goods. You start out by finding things like lost people, packages, or you have to strong arm people out of money. While this was a change of pace from the first one I found some of the jobs a little tedious often times boring. You have to complete several "find the baby/package/person/ before you get to the more complex jobs. So this is far from hack and slash. Its alot more talk and find and occasionally fight. Which is fine but along with the dialogue that I must put up with every time I start a new game it can get annoying.

I LOVED the first game, simply adored it! This one promises to be bigger! It isn't bigger, about the same. The only thing that really changed is that you can carry two swords later in the game. My only gripes are that you can't go anywhere or do anything (ie..You can't just kill anyone and change the story etc..like Morrowind) Another thing that I didn't like is that there aren't any pastures like the first game where you can just walk through and level up etc.. other than that the game is almost identical to the first but with new characters and more swords. Not a 5 yet but its getting there, lets hope for a Way of the Samurai 3 and hope it fixes the gripes I mentioned.