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2010 video game

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage
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Developer(s)	Tecmo Koei
Publisher(s)	Tecmo Koei
Director(southward)	Naohito Kano
Producer(s)	Hisashi Koinuma
Designer(s)	Takahiro Kawai
Developer(due south)	Tomoyuki Kitamura
Writer(s)	Junpei Imura Keisuke Okabayashi Masahiro Kato Hiroyuki Numoto
Composer(south)	Haruki Yamada
Series	Fist of the North Star Dynasty Warriors
Platform(s)	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Release	JP: March 25, 2010 NA: November ii, 2010[one] EU: Nov v, 2010[2]
Genre(s)	Beat out 'em up
Fashion(s)	Single-role player, multiplayer

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage , originally released in Nippon as Hokuto Musou ( 北斗無双 , Hokuto Musō ), is a 3D beat 'em upwardly for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 developed and published by Tecmo Koei. Information technology is a spin-off of the Dynasty Warriors series based on the manga franchise Fist of the N Star by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara. It was first released in Japan on March 25, 2010, and information technology was released in North America on November ii, 2010 and in Europe on Nov five. A sequel, Ken's Rage 2, was announced with a surprise trailer at the Electronic Amusement Expo in June 2012. New playable characters and story arcs are featured, and the game was released in Nihon on December 2012.^[3]

Gameplay [edit]

The basic controls and mission system are the same as well-nigh games in Warriors series. Players can also evade like the characters in the Samurai Warriors series. While a KO count is withal present, enemies do not necessarily swarm the players and appear in certain sections inside an area. Enemies are killed in a similar manner equally the original manga, including the serial' unique death cries, blood, and exploding bodies.

• Players can play under three different styles plant among characters: the Hokuto, Nanto, or Unique Blazon.
  • Hokuto fashion users tin can pinpoint their opponent's secret pressure points at various times, allowing their grapheme to deal critical damage.
  • Nanto fighters can utilize a unique technique called Mikiri Kougeki, which allows the characters to run across openings in their opponent's attacks. When the actor and their opponent simultaneously perform a strong set on, a select button may appear on the screen within that instant. If players successfully printing the correct button within the moment it appears, the Nanto fighter will instantly evade the attack and perform a counter. Subsequently, for a brusk time, the Nanto fighter will be in a powered-up state that increases their attack power and replaces some of their standard attacks with more than powerful ones.
  • Unique types, similar Mamiya and Jagi, rely on a technical perspective and can use weapons for special attacks against their foes. They are made for veteran players who desire to use more than hard characters.
• A skill point system like to recent Warriors titles also appears in the game. The master departure with Ken's Rage is that players need to equip particular skills in gild to expand their graphic symbol's learning curve. As more battles are cleared, players tin choose to learn any techniques, legendary techniques, and secondary abilities they desire for each character based on their own choices. Skill points are earned by collecting glowing balls, or "karma", institute after defeating opponents in the field. They can likewise be earned past correctly performing a Musou Ranbu, trashing objects for scrolls, completing missions, or by finishing a stage with a sound functioning.
• Players can perform an instant guard, or "Just Guard", against an opponent's blows to open up opportunities for more combos. Information technology require precise timing to pull off the technique.
• Characters can besides grab opponents, climb walls, or choice and throw items. They may also need to destroy objects to clear alternative paths through an area.
• Each character can perform, Touki Kakusei, which momentarily increases the powers of their characters by sacrificing the "Touki" judge.
• Players can use their character'due south diverse techniques from the comic. These deadly techniques (or ougi) deed equally the graphic symbol'south type of "musou" in this game, allowing limited invincibility and massively dissentious a target. When a technique is used, the game will momentarily freeze the activeness on the field until the motility is completed. The nature of implementing a technique varies with each character.
• Characters are immune to have multiple techniques at once and they tin can be rotated. There are several new techniques for characters that were fabricated solely for this game.
• Each character has their unique legendary technique, or Shin Denshou Ougi, which can instantly impale crowds of weak opponents if performed correctly.
• Another skill available to each character is the Musou Ranbu, which is a special finishing blow that can only exist used against weakened opponents in duels. During the sequence, players will need to input buttons that flash on the screen to pummel their foe with Fist of The North Star flare. The feature is executed in a similar manner every bit Duels in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, except that players need to input a longer serial of button combinations for a successful finish. Causing a fault lowers the player'south wellness as punishment, though this can be blocked.
• Players can also taunt in the game with their characters. Taunting a foe as well many times can make them to become enraged and tougher to defeat; however, taunting causes all nearby enemies to swarm to 1 location on the field, allowing the thespian to easily and quickly dispatch them with one well-placed philharmonic or signature motility. Taunting does not work on "boss" characters with visible health bars at the bottom of the HUD.
• When a character is damaged, their model may modify to reflect the changes in their life estimate. If Kenshiro is wounded by an explosion, for example, portions of his shirt volition be blown abroad.

Modes [edit]

Legend way [edit]

Similar to modes featured in the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam titles, Legend Mode is the story segment which faithfully follows the original manga. The official fashion follows the beginning half of the series, starting with Kenshiro's beginnings until he faces Raoh for the right of the Hokuto Shinken succession. Kenshiro, Rei, Mamiya, Toki, and Raoh tin exist played in this mode.

Clearing this mode with Rei also unlocks an alternate "white haired" Rei model for players.

Dream way [edit]

An original story for the game which lets other characters become playable. The basic outline of the way has the 4 Hokuto brothers interacting with the "Nanto regular army". Each character offers a different perspective or story arc within the mode. Completing graphic symbol scenarios in this section is needed to unlock more characters for this mode.

Clearing this style with Kenshiro unlocks an alternating torn wearing apparel version for him at the grapheme select screen.

Challenge way [edit]

Unlocked once Kenshiro's official mode is cleared, it pits the players against a continuous string of opponents. Players can simultaneously face the 4 Hokuto candidates, the six Nanto Seiken, and other challenges as the players continue playing. It acts equally the game'south survival mode.

Introduction mode [edit]

The game's tutorial mode for anyone unfamiliar with the game's organization, starting with Kenshiro (Hokuto Blazon). Includes Rei (Nanto Type) and Mamiya (Unique Blazon) once the second affiliate of Kenshiro'south official mode is cleared.

Gallery [edit]

Features renders, music, and movies inside the game.

Settings [edit]

Players can arrange the buttons, accommodate the sound, or turn off the gauges on the screen. In that location are 3 difficulties: like shooting fish in a barrel, normal, or hard. An option to conform the game'due south violence level can also be washed: "Farthermost" keeps the blood and gore while "Mild" turns it off. In the western versions, there's besides an pick to switch betwixt English or Japanese language voices.

Development [edit]

Hokuto Musō was originally appear as a "mystery title" during the 2009 Tokyo Game Prove and was publicly unveiled during a staged media event on Oct 14, 2009 (broadcast alive to the Japanese movie site, Nico Nico Douga). Its story and characters are based on the famous Japanese comic and anime Fist of the North Star. Tetsuo Hara and Buronson, the illustrator and writer respectively of the original comic, have expressed their support and enthusiasm for the championship.

Hisashi Koinuma, the game's producer said that the staff aim to create a "new realistic feel" for the Fist of the Due north Star serial while still existence faithful to the original's roots. During this procedure, he mentioned his concerns for the characters' body structure, muscles, and other minute details (such as perfecting the model for Raoh'south wrinkled forehead). He noted that the official mode for this title carries more action adventure tones than other Warriors titles thus far yet gave his assurance that Warriors fans tin hands feel at home in the game'south original story mode. He personally spoke his thoughts regarding the game at Yodobashi-Akiba, Biccamera Yurakucho, and Biccamera Ikebukuro on March 22 and March 25. He also played a stone-newspaper-scissor game for attendants, the winner of the crowd obtaining an original T-shirt signed by the game's phonation actors.

Downloadable content [edit]

Upon release of the game, Koei plans for downloadable content for the game, including additional costumes and characters. Players can also proceeds admission to download Kenshiro's original costume from the manga and the anime for 300 yen, originally available for the first print editions.^[four]

Bundles [edit]

The game comes in four different variations; a standalone copy of the game, the pre-order version, the First impress edition and the treasure box edition. The first print edition comes with the admission to download Kenshiro's original costume, the pre-society version comes with the Metallic Bill of fare Case and the treasure box edition includes the character vox Warning Clock, an original soundtrack CD and an original story book with strategies and artwork.

Promotions [edit]

Pokka Coffee was performing a collaboration upshot with Fist of the North Star in which they had specially printed cans on their products. These same drinks were present during the March 3rd Premium play test for Ken's Rage.

On Oct 21, it was announced that pre-order customers who order their game from GameStop stores would receive the playable grapheme 'Middle' as a bonus, equally well as ii additional missions.^[v]

Reception [edit]

Reviews of the game accept been mixed, with an average score of 61.70% for the PlayStation 3 version and threescore.54% for the Xbox 360 version at GameRankings.^{[xx] [21]} The game currently has a Metacritic score of threescore out of 100 for the PlayStation 3 version^[6] and 59 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version.^[7]

The game gained a positive review from Famitsu and was given a score of 32 (9/8/7/8) out of 40. "The game recreates the manga'southward world pretty well, from the heavy-handed Hokuto moves to the speedier Nanto attacks," one author said. "It's not all that exciting at first, only things modify in one case yous outset stringing strong attacks together." Another editor had more than serious problems with the game'due south controls. "The throwing animation is as well deadening, and you lot finish for a moment after each strong attack," the reviewer wrote. "Maybe information technology adds to the effect, just it cuts down on the momentum a scrap. The rest of your moves are pretty quick and speedy, as well, which makes information technology seem all the worse."^[eleven]

IGN awarded the game five out of ten and said "There are different stories to play through and plenty to unlock, only it'southward nothing special."^[16] Edge mag awarded the PlayStation 3 version five out of x and said "It all adds up to an uneven brawler, a game with the resources and engineering to suspension through the walls of the developer's lineage simply one unprepared to fully allow become and have a gamble."^[ix] GamesTM awarded the same version 7 out of ten.^[22] PALGN likewise awarded the same version vii out of ten and said "If y'all like beat out 'em ups, you will appreciate this one, but ultimately Fist of the North Star: Ken'south Rage is a love letter to fans of the original series."^[23]

However, The A.V. Gild gave the Xbox 360 version a D and stated, "No thing who's onscreen, Ken's Rage is clunky, lacks multifariousness, and on the whole feels incredibly dated."^[xix]

Hokuto Musō sold virtually one-half a 1000000 copies in Japan.^[24]

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