Takes all fun and action from the previous game to another level

User Rating: 9 | Bleach: Blade Battlers 2nd PS2
Bleach: Blade Battlers was a good surprise. Not as a Bleach game, as I was looking towards to it as a Bleach fan, but as a very fun and fast paced fighting game, with somewhat balanced characters with different characteristics that added some strategy to the fights.

B:BB 2nd not only did keep that core characteristics of his prequel, but also opened more options in the fight, by separating the Bankai/Shikai/Ressurecion energy bar from the Reiatsu (Special Moves) bar. Besides, the new characters introduced from the Arrankar arc, the new chars from the Soul Society and some redesign of the previous fighters made the game look even better.

Still, the open battle is the shine of this game. Being able to gather up to four players and do the button smash in an insane battle is pretty fun. The single player campaign is worth only to unlock the characters to the battle, and have some easy missions to do that. There are of course some hard missions (some even almost impossible) but to gain that crowns to add accessories to your characters simply don`t worth it.

The graphics are simple but pretty and efficient, using cell shading to give that cartoonish look. The physics are all right also, nothing that stand out (for good or bad). Resuming, this is a good party game if you look some insane fighting multiplayer fun.