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Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi - Sony PSP

Brand: Aksys

Platform : Sony PSP |

Rated: Mature

3.4 69 ratings

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Two Major Storylines: Play through Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom with each of six playable characters in Shinsengumi Memorial, or change history in Shinsengumi Chronicle.
In Shinsengumi Memorial, step into the shoes of your favorite samurai and play through battles from Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom. Join in on the action as you battle your way through Kyoto! In Shinsengumi Chronicle, change history as any one of the six main characters. Play in an alternate universe where you control the fate of the Shinsengumi.
Skirmish Mode: Replay past battles to add some more kills or level up your character to be more deadly. Unlock two addition characters in this mode and duke it out on your favorite stages.
Fury Mode: When a character’s life is spent, he will enter Fury Mode, unleashing an ferocious killing machine, able to tear down anyone that gets in his way. However, becoming a fury too many times can unlock a particularly bad ending.
Character Guide with Artwork: Each retail copy of Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi comes with an exclusive character guide featuring all eight playable characters from the game. Learn about each of these legendary warriors, and see them in their traditional Shinsengumi outfits and Western attire in this 16-page, full color digest.

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Product information

Computer Platform

Sony PSP

UPC

893610001686

ASIN

B00A39IF7I

Release date

February 19, 2013

Customer Reviews

3.4 69 ratings

3.4 out of 5 stars

Product Dimensions

6.9 x 4 x 0.6 inches; 3.2 ounces

Type of item

Video Game

Rated

Mature

Item model number

PSP-013

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Item Weight

3.2 ounces

Manufacturer

Aksys

Date First Available

November 25, 2012

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The men of the hit series Hakuoki are back and ready for some action! Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi will be available for the PSP system, offering fans cut-‘em-down action, yet staying true to its Hakuoki roots with a powerful story of adventure. Play as Saito, Hijikata or the four other main characters from the Hakuoki series in an alternate storyline and change the fate of the Shinsengumi, or relive the events of Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom. Unlock two characters for use in free play, and use special attacks and deadly strikes to plow through hordes of enemies in this action-packed follow-up to the 2012 hit!

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Immerse yourself in the World of Hakuoki

Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi for the PSP (PlayStationPortable) system is the first action game from the hit series Hakuoki. As a member of a legendary group of warriors from bygone Japan, battle against imperial forces, demons, and more in the first hack/slash game from this critically acclaimed series. Based on the visual novel, Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom, Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi brings together the great storytelling that defines this series and action-packed adventure for everyone to enjoy.

Pick Your Warrior

As one of six warriors, master your sword (or spear) and defeat your enemies. With hordes coming at you, the only way to survive is to use special skills and combination attacks in order to gain experience and become even more powerful.

Deplete your life gauge completely and become a ferocious fury, a deadly demon capable of unmatched destruction (applies to only certain characters). With your abilities heightened, no enemy can stand in your way. But beware – becoming a fury too often will invite a particularly terrible ending.

Two Story Modes

Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi offers two story modes, featuring cut-scenes from the anime series, Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom, and three difficulty levels.

Shinsengumi Memorial

Follow the events of Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom, but this time, find your own inner warrior as you battle for honor, duty, and glory.

Shinsengumi Chronicle

In these alternate universe scenarios, control the fate of the Shinsengumi warriors as history unfolds differently. Especially written for this game, learn about what could have happened in these exciting “what if” scenarios.

Skirmish Mode

Once you have completed a level, revisit it to level up, obtain better scores, and refine your skills. Here, you can unlock two playable characters and use their special skills to duke it out.

Additional Content

Need a boost? Purchase items, available on the PlayStationStore, that you can combine to make your character stronger.

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3.4 out of 5

69 global ratings

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Customers like the replay value, character selection, ease of use, and condition of the video game. They mention that it's fun, great, and easy to play. They also like the artwork, and performance. However, some customers feel the storyline is boring and odd.

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17 customers mention14 positive3 negative

Customers find the game fun, wonderful, and interesting. They also say it's fun to revisit the world and that the game plays excellently.

"This is a great game! I love the story and find it interesting! It features great voice acting from well known Japanese Seiyuus...." Read more

"...Overall the game is fantastic, it had an item and level based system that makes me keep playing for hours...." Read more

"Amazing! Very fun game. Not as good as the original Hakuouki game, but still very nice...." Read more

"I truly hate to give it 3 stars. The first Hakuouki game was absolutely wonderful and is now one of my favorite games...." Read more

6 customers mention6 positive0 negative

Customers like the character selection in the video game. They mention that they can change the character clothes, create and add equipment to their character, and that the moves for each character are different. They also like the art design and the outfit choices.

"...I love how you can change the outfits in skirmish once you beat a character's story line. Also the games has unlockable extras (woot!)..." Read more

"I give this 5 stars because of the picture and u can change the character clothes... I just love the voices on this game as well... I,m just waiting..." Read more

"...I do however like that you can create and add equipment to your character...." Read more

"...It get you a different perspective. I do like the character art design for this game and want to eventually get the figures." Read more

5 customers mention5 positive0 negative

Customers find the game easy to use. They say the format is not too hard and the game play is smooth.

"...The moves for each character are different but it is easy enough that you don't have to memorize button sequences to get the job..." Read more

"...defeat the Captain and then do this 3 times in the level. Its ridiculously easy, even on the 'hardest' setting, to just combo the living daylights..." Read more

"...waiting to unlock my kazama, then I will be real happy... This game is real easy and they shouldn't made the game this easy." Read more

"...This game is quite easy and I think anybody who is a huge fan would love this, however I was not made a huge fan and bought this game to try..." Read more

4 customers mention4 positive0 negative

Customers are happy with the condition of the video game software.

"Arrived before I even got my psp. In great condition, works like a charm...." Read more

"Came in great condition and works great" Read more

"Yay I'm so excited I am glad it got here fast and in good condition. I am happy I can continue my obsession hahaha" Read more

"Very fun, perfect condition" Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers find the artwork in the video game software beautifully done.

"...The graphics are actually pretty decent. Give it a try and experience the Shinsengumi in a new light...." Read more

"...As always, the graphics and colorfulness is beautifully done; but the concept is bleh. Doing the same ol' hack-n-slash over and over again...." Read more

"I love this game. A great mix; demons, Japan, anime, beautiful art, violence, and a partial love story. You couldn't ask for more...." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the performance of the video game software. They mention that it works great and is simply perfect.

"Arrived before I even got my psp. In great condition, works like a charm...." Read more

"Came in great condition and works great" Read more

"simply perfect..." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the good voicing and great voice acting in the video game.

"...I love the story and find it interesting! It features great voice acting from well known Japanese Seiyuus. Story is the same as the anime! Great." Read more

"I loved the game! There was good voicing for the game as well as the art...." Read more

"I just love the voices on this game as well..." Read more

11 customers mention3 positive8 negative

Customers find the storyline boring, odd, and short. They also say the concept is bleh.

"...story modes actually used clips from the anime and the other didn't have much of a plot...." Read more

"...that want to be the male characters in the Shinsengumi but the game gets boring... After the button pushing of the same moves and a story line that..." Read more

"This is a great game! I love the story and find it interesting! It features great voice acting from well known Japanese Seiyuus...." Read more

"...But this game... Isn't that great at all. There isn't much to the story at all...." Read more

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C. L. S

Great story game!!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2015

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This is a great game! I love the story and find it interesting! It features great voice acting from well known Japanese Seiyuus. Story is the same as the anime! Great.

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Miyami Yuki

Love the game but..

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2013

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The game is fun :) The moves for each character are different but it is easy enough that you don't have to memorize button sequences to get the job done. I love how you can change the outfits in skirmish once you beat a character's story line. Also the games has unlockable extras (woot!) that include screen captures and art, movies, and music. The game play is smooth and not to hard for the average person. I LOVE how they put a dialogue history (log) and fast forward (FF) option on the cut scenes.They also added footage from the anime on each character's storyline which i thought was a nice touch (and skippable if necessary). Overall the game is fantastic, it had an item and level based system that makes me keep playing for hours. And I am still playing to get all the items. I have to admit I have not tried the online store yet.
I only have one source of contention...the bandana. It is the reason why this great game only gets four stars. Though I hate to do it, it is an overall product rating. The bandana looked and felt like poor quality (for a bandana). It is made out of wall scroll material or a meshy type if you don't own a wall scroll. I liked the images they chose for it but the thing isn't made for what it is named. They should of called it a mini poster or wall scroll rather than a bandana. Oh well I can guess most of us will be hanging it up anyway. :p

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Gurianthe

disgusting cashgrab

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015

this game was obviously put together in less than a month in order to profit from the anime. I know that playing visual novels can be tiring and Hakuoki fans will most certainly buy this game because of that but it's not worth it.

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The Butler

Alot of the same

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2013

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I bought this game because I love Hakuoki. However, I was really disappointed when one of the story modes actually used clips from the anime and the other didn't have much of a plot. Even on hard mode the game was really easy compared to similar games like Samurai Warriors and such. Truly only a fan would finish it. Being a pretty serious fan, I was still disappointed.

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Lexie @ For the Sake of Reading

Not Much Replay Value

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013

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On the one hand this game serves exactly what it says it is--its a chance to play as one of the Shinsengumi (or Kazama) and take direct control of the characters either through the 'AU' set-up of Hakuoki Chronicles or through scenes from Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom Limited Edition in Hakuoki Memorial.

Anyone who played DEMON knows that as a visual novel there is no direct fighting. Its all 'choose option a, b, or c' and the story evolves through your choices. It made sense, since Chizuru is not what you would call a capable fighter at first and the story was built upon her reactions to the events unfolding around her. This annoyed some gamers who didn't expect this (there's very few visual novels games on the market domestically that aren't hentai) and thrilled those of us who were waiting anxiously for it.

WARRIORS tried to bridge the gap between the two, largely to no success. Their premise seemed built on that fans of DEMON aren't into fighting games and thus made the game as simple as possible.

In "Chronicles" its 5 or 6 levels of basically "Defeat 20 Imperial Soldiers!", defeat those soldiers, 'Find the Captain!', defeat the Captain and then do this 3 times in the level. Its ridiculously easy, even on the 'hardest' setting, to just combo the living daylights out of the Bosses and defeat them with relatively no harm done to yourself. Especially if you filly our 'Sakura' gauge--you max that puppy out before the 'Big Boss' of the level and you'll kick their butt in under a minute, 2 minutes max for Kodo's final form.

After finishing Hijikata, Souji and Harada's 'stories' in Chronicles I decided to play Heisuke's basically seeing how many soldiers (or furies, depending on where you're at in the 'story') I could defeat in a time restraint I placed on myself just to give myself some sort of challenge.

Its important to note that whether you defeat the Boss or not, it doesn't really affect things in the stories (in Chronicles). Things continue on their relentlessly depressing path towards decimation for the Shinsengumi no matter how kick butt you are as a Warrior. In a couple instances I achieved 'overwhelming victory' only to move to the next level and be told that 'the crippling defeat the Shinsengumi suffered at so-and-so stage...'.

Since it was so easy to play I haven't yet had a 'bad ending' where I've burst out into Fury mode too much (I haven't even lost more then half my life in any of the levels and that's without aide), so I can't speak to that.

As for 'Memorial', this is...there was many times throughout DEMON where I wanted to take control and be like 'And that's how you end a threat' (instead of the method of Chizuru is in danger who can save her!?, even as a visual novel fan that gets tiring at times). This game doesn't REALLY offer that. The scenes where fighting was or could occur--such as whenever Kazama and his crew showed up to kidnap Chizuru--are what you're basically playing, but without the rest of the game it feels empty.

For instance the first time Kazama shows up, you can't defeat/kill him and then play the rest of the game as if he's dead. Equally if your character is defeated/killed the game doesn't restructure itself to change the storyline around to accomadate that.

Stick to DEMON. If you want a game that uses both the 'visual novel' elements and 'fighting' elements, look at the Persona series--the games aren't without their own faults, but it better blends the two genres to appeal to fans of both types. Here's hoping that IDEA FACTORY and AKSYS bring more of the Hakuoki games over (or even one of OTOMATE's other series, there's quite a few that are interesting plays).

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Sakura Kurosaki

Very happy with results.

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2015

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Amazing! Very fun game. Not as good as the original Hakuouki game, but still very nice. I really love that they have it so you can choose to play battles that happened in the first game. Came a bit earlier than expected, which is always great! Would be nice if Aksys made more of these games in English. I'd buy all of them!

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Thailyone Bien Lor

Fun game overall.

Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2015

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The game reminds me of Dynasty Warriors, but plays like a low budget game. The gameplay feels really slow and not all enemies can be displayed on the screen at once (given it is PSP). I subtracted one star because the game plays a little sluggish as I mentioned before. The graphics are actually pretty decent. Give it a try and experience the Shinsengumi in a new light. The interesting story makes up for the sluggish gameplay.

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Amazon Customer

I just love the voices on this game as well

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016

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I give this 5 stars because of the picture and u can change the character clothes... I just love the voices on this game as well... I,m just waiting to unlock my kazama, then I will be real happy... This game is real easy and they shouldn't made the game this easy.

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Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi - Sony PSP

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Immerse yourself in the World of Hakuoki

Pick Your Warrior

Two Story Modes

Shinsengumi Memorial

Shinsengumi Chronicle

Skirmish Mode

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