Bushido Blade

Bushido Blade is a versus fighting game with several unique features.

It does away with health bars, special meters, and other traditional gimmicks and allows for battles to be won with a single hit.

Players select from among six ninja, each of a different fighting style and attributes.

Players also choose equipment from among eight weapons, including Japanese swords, European blades, naginata and a sledgehammer.

Battles take place in wide open areas in which combatants can run around as well as climb up and down.

Some structures, like bamboo trees, can even be cut down.

In the single player game, players can even run through the entire castle, picking a preferred fighting ground location.

In addition to the single player story mode, there's a versus mode, a slash mode where you will be attacked by 100 generic ninja in one long corridor, a training, and a 'POV' mode, which allows players to play from first person, heightening the realism.

The game's versus mode can also be played using two Playstations linked up.

Gameplay involves picking one of three stances, then attacking high, middle, or low.

Directions while attacking change attacks, and attacks can be combo'd.

Player damage is location based, with hits to arms often making them useless, hits to legs crippling, and hits to heads and clean across the torso being mortal.

The use of stances and the easily achieved one hit kills make Bushido Blade one of the most deadly, and therefore realistic, weapon fighters around.

Bushido Blade for PlayStation is currently worth €28.23 loose, €24.25 complete in box, and €68.36 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Bushido Blade has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Bushido Blade, loose is €28.23 and CIB is €24.25 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.

The PAL version of Bushido Blade is currently worth €28.23 loose, versus €24.27 for NTSC-U. Regional price differences usually come down to print run size and regional collector demand.