bump, people interested in hokuto muso... I recently started a blog which contains a translation of menus/a trophy guide/tips, i also posted my impressions, i will post a short sided one if you dont care that much though!
basically hokuto muso is a chore to play as kenshiro, he gets the bulk and its so UGH 1v1 and when you need to kill 300 or so people to geet to the end, it takes like a hour... playing as everyone else is quite fun, raoh for instance is just a joy to play, he unleashes the ownage! not to mention people explode and shit is flying!
the graphics are fine, and the soundtrack is all metal featuring things like the anime opening in some fights.
as far as everything else its quite fun, just some characters are too 1v1 based, where as rei/raoh are more of a all around character which makes it quite fun, also once you get more upgrades the characters become FAR better, and even ken becomes playable =D
@ the vesperia question
english main menu, rest is japanese though... though everyone seems turned off by this unless you really care about the story you will need a guide to get the final dungeon/plat the game reguardless so its no big deal