if you could make your own bleach game

[Ni Sama]

What would be the features, characters, and modes? I know there making a bleach fighting game, but this would actually follow the series. But it would be kinda hard to do any suggestions?

[Keiichi]

I'd make like an RPG/Adventure/Action sorta game. The playable characters would be Ichigo, Rukia, Chad, Ishida and Inoue. I'd say you start off playing as Rukia, until you take the blow from the Hollow.Then you'd be Ichigo to finish off the hollow until Chad's battle, Then you'd be Chad to fight off the one hollow. Then you'd switch to Ichigo until later on till you Ishida and Ichigo. You'd switch over to Ishida and slay the hollows and then go back to Ichigo. Blah Blah you know the rest :P But it'd be a nice variety with Ichigo's sword skills/Chad's arm for fist fighting/Rukia's Shinigami skills/Ishida's bow/ and Inoue's little guardians. It'd be a free roaming world, when you get into battle it'd be kinda like the Star Ocean games where you're in a battle area and you use your attacks and specials to defeat the enemy. Depending on who's with you at the time they'd be AI controled or controled by someone online or a friend playing on another controller. It'd follow the story of the manga closely, and have the style of the new PSP game.

Dont mind all the spelling mistakes... just thought this up in a couple minutes :P

[hasuke]

Ok, here we go.

As my signature shows, i'm Clearly a fan of the Guilty Gear games. What I would do is make a 2d sprite based fighter, using hi-res sprites like GGXX has (and a intricate move system. I.E: specials require quarter circles and stuff, as opposed to -> + Slash and stuff)

It's basically have Story mode, Vs, and a kind of "tournament" mode. For playable characters, I would definately include damn near everyone. Ichigo, Chad, Ishida, Orihime, Urahara, Tessai, Jinta, Ururu, Ganju, Renji, Byakuya, Histugaya, Ichimaru, Zaraki, Shunsui, Kaien, psh, every important captain and vice captain basically, Orihime's Brother (hollow form of course), Grand Fisher, Hollow/Negative Ichigo (once we actually see him/it in action more) and Kon (in Ichigo's body. he could be the game's Dan Hibiki!)

How would the hollow characters work? Well there's bound to be some clever ways you could give them special moves and super moves. After all, Orihime's brother could freely warp around, spit the acid, and i'm sure he could've doen some other stuff. Grand Fisher could most likely use his head bobber as a kind of weapon, and if I'm not mistaken, his claws had the ability to elongate. Either way, it would be pretty trippy to add moves to the Hollow's arsenal to make them a decent fighting force.

Ban Kai would mostly be one hit moves, that consume a full reserve of Soul Gauge levels. (Each "Soul Gauge" could hold three levels of power. Normal super specials cost one gauge, but ultimates (like Ban Kai moves and stuff like Orihime's Tsubaki and a super beefy version of Chad's arm, for instance) use all three) Ban Kai could work like Renji releases his, and whips the ban kai about forming a high damage 5 hit chain, Byakuya's would be fairly simple to perform, Komamura's could have the giant ogre come out and smash the person for a 1 hit combo that deals massive damage, etc.
Possibly add in a team mode (A La Marvel vs Capcom 2) so you could tag in and out characters, as well as combine supers. Imagine Sebonzakura paired up with Zanbimaru and a powerful leaping attack of Ichigo's formulated on a single target. ouch. Plus the sheer fact of forming together teams of unlikely characters, or characters you'd like to see fight together would be awesome. Zaraki, Orihime and Ishida taking on a team consisting of Komamura, Tousen and one of their vice captains...one hell of a fight.


Man, I really have too much free time XD

[Ni Sama]

My Bleach Game would have a vs mode, a team battle mode, and a story mode. The story mode would follow the episodes and the game would be in third person view. First you would meet Rukia then you would follow the episodes from their. Each battle would be it own level and if you wanted to move on in the story you would have to beat the hollow. Then when you got to the Renji/Byakuya part it would go to video but in least for the main battles you would be able to fight. You would also be able to talk to people who could tell you certain things. You would be able to fight as Ishida and the other characters when they fought in the episodes it would be awesome!

[the Peacemaker]

I would have to agree with Keiichi on parts of the games aspects. I think an RPG would be good start because there are so many hollows in the anime/manga that are not named random battles are taken care of, and then you can build off everything so far.

It would be nice to have it episodic as well. For example .hack, Xenosaga or something of that nature.

I'm all for a fighter though too. But it seems there are so many of them out there right now that they have just become watered down money makers. Like the Naruto games they had the first one and "remixed" it added a few more characters.

[Ni Sama]

I just realized that they are going to have a story mode for the bleach game and its kinda like playing the series. But you can only play as 6 characters I would definetly add more.

[hasuke]

Aren't the naruto games just DBZ Budokai with an edited engine and naruto charas?

It seems Budokai-esque games are a new anime game trend, not that it's bad, because Budokai is one of the few anime game series that doesn't make me go "what is this crap?"

[tornarchon]

I'll like a game that presents an alternate storyline. Or at least allows you to deviate from the story with consequences that differ from the original storyline. Like perhaps, if the team didn't get seperated when they entered the core of the Society (can't remember the romanization...), what would have happened? It'll be really interesting to play out that kind of scenario.

[CuLT]

It would be action: Ichigo would shoot lasers from his eyes;

But it would also have to be RPG, so Ichigo would have to choose which of the many hair salons to go to to maintain his pristine follicle condition (whilst avoiding shooting the hair dresser with his laser-beam eyes. Of death) !!!11one!!1

[T25]

I'd keep it just as the PSP game is, but with TONS more characters (more shinigami captians, Urahara and store workers, maybe even throw in Don Kanonji or something for fun.)

[hasuke]

yeah that PSP game is kind of lame with the 6 characters.... Haha, Don Kanonji

He would truly be the Dan Hibiki of the Bleach world XD