Black & White Bushido

Before the clean up after competing in True Achievement’s Ultimate Head to Head contest, I decided to finish up this little game I was using to keep my streak ticking over. The game takes less than an hour to get all the achievements however, I spread this out over many weeks specifically for streaking purposes.

The game itself is a simple 2D samurai fighting game that seems to be purpose built for couch co-op – a seemly dead idea of having real life people come to your house to play games with you. You fight in a multitude of different game modes and environments where the basic concept is to slice your ninja opponents in two with katanas. There are other items that drop such as smoke bombs, shuriken and tacks to add to the limited gameplay.

The idea is a simple one that’s very well constructed – this is to be expected considering how little game there is but the idea of the fun you get from it is to play versus with your friends. The gameplay is fast and furious, and this makes the multiplayer a lot of fun.

Musically, it’s very apt but I didn’t really play it long enough to find out if the music becomes obnoxious or annoying.

Achievements – 1,000 Points – 10 Achievements

All but 2 of the achievements can be earned in versus mode which means if you have multiple controllers, the achievements are a literal walk in the park... or pagoda. The only two that can’t be earned in versus are for getting a score of over 3,000 points in Challenge Mode. This is quite easy too and doesn’t take too long once you’ve learned the basics of the controls.

The others are all very straight forward and can be easily set up with two controllers. Some of them can also be easily earned against the bots as well, however one of the more trickier examples include clashing in the air ten times. This requires an action from a bot or another player. This obviously cannot be guaranteed in matches against bots. Also getting ten double kills is trickier with bots but would require three controllers if you want to do it yourself.

Which brings me on to the last achievement I’ll mention and that’s awarded for playing a co-op game with four players. This is only tricky if you don’t have 4 controllers… or friends with Xboxes who live locally. Thankfully, I did have the latter though most of my friends play on PS4 now.

Downloadable Content – N/A

Black and White Bushido is a really easy completion that offers replay value once completed through local co-op – as long as you have the friends locally to play with you. To be fair, there is also an online mode to play but I am slowly weaning myself away from online multiplayer as it’s not something I want to continue doing. It probably means my completion reviews will dry up shortly… once I’m caught up that is.