Are you a Miyamoto Musashi fan? If yes then we have brought you the best 5 games that you can play as the legendary swordsman.
Miyamoto Musashi was a great Edo-period Japanese swordsman, Ronin, Strategist, Philosopher, and writer as well. Famous for his invention of the dual-wielding sword techniques and a record of 61 individual duals in which no opponent ever defeated him. Born as Shinmen Musashi in c. 1584 in the Harima province in Japan. He was also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke, Shinmen Takezo, Later he acquired a Buddhist name “Niten Doraku”.
He had many names Miyamoto Musashi being the most well-known of all of them. He was nicknamed “Sword Saint of Japan” because of his unmatchable and undefeated sword skills during the Edo period. Miyamoto Musashi passed away at the age of 61 on 13th June 1645. He is a very well-respected and well-known figure in Japan to date, his name lives on, in the form of media as many artists use his likeness and character from his Books in their own stories and make their own interpretations of him.
One great example is Vagabond, in which Mangaka Takehiko Inoue takes Miyamoto Musashi’s character and makes a fictionalized version of his journey. It is a famous Manga around the world garnering many accolades. All this proves that Miyamoto Musashi is still alive in people’s minds. Another big media where you can not only read his story but can play as his character is Games. So for those who want to play as the legendary swordsman of Japan “Miyamoto Musashi”, here are 5 games where you can play as the legendary two-blade swordsman.
Ganryu 2 is a 2D platformer with a beautiful art style where you play as Miyamoto Musashi and travel through a 17th-century fantasy world based in Japan from north of the island of Ganryu-jima where Musashi and Kojiro’s story took place. The story of Miyamoto Musashi from the renowned and famous novel “The Stone And The Sword” was the inspiration behind the game.
It is a fighting game released on 9 March 2022, developed by Storybird Studio and Just For Games studios and published by PixelHeart and Just For Games. It is the 2nd game in the Ganryu series though the first game in the series was made back in 1999 by a different studio. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Samurai Warriors is a PS2 game developed by Omega Force and published by Koie, Later for PS3 and PS Vita by Koei Tecmo. Directed by Hisashi Koinuma, it is the 2nd game in the Samurai Warriors series in which you get to play as legendary samurai warriors from all over Japan.
While you get to play as many famous characters in Samurai Warriors 2, The legendary Miyamoto Musashi is featured in one of the 2 expansions that Samurai Warriors 2 got named “Xtreme Legends”.He is an unlockable character, so you have to play the game a bit to get your hands on the mighty warrior. This game is a hack-and-slash adventure game having multiple modes such as Story mode, Free mode, Survival mode, and a minigame called Sugoroku. It is available on PS2, PS3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, and Windows.
Well, he is in the title itself, Musashi Samurai Legend released in 2005, directed by Yoichi Yoshimoto, developed and published by Square Enix in Japan and North America and by Atari Europe in other PAL regions. It is an action game with a hint of minor RPG elements, it is played from a third-person perspective.
In Musashi: Samurai Legend we get to play the titular character of Miyamoto Musashi. It is mainly focused on action, where you have to fight enemies using swords and various moves. The game is completely 3D that supports the gameplay in many ways and makes it more fun to play. The protagonist has 2 iconic swords which is Miyamoto Musashi’s trademark style. You can find different weapons as you progress through the game.You can become the legend himself on PS2.
Heavily inspired by the gameplay of Diablo 2, one of the reasons is that many of this game’s developers have worked on the previous Diablo game. Diablo and Musashi fans can have a good time playing this one. Throne of Darkness is an action RPG hack-and-slash game developed by Click Entertainment and published by Sierra On-Line, released in 2001.
Many gamers will agree that there is a learning curve to this game, but once you get it, it’s all the more fun. This one is a multiplayer game supporting 35 players throughout three multiplayer modes. You can command up to seven legendary Japanese warriors, Miyamoto Musashi being one of them. You get to fight evil spirits, dragons, and shadow soldiers using Magic and adaptive weapons, you can explore the lands of Yamato in feudal Japan and strategize your way through. You can play Throne of Darkness on PC.
We all know the famous Onimusha series, Onimusha Blade Warriors is a spinoff of the original Onimusha series which takes place between the events of Onimusha 1 and 2. Directed by Hideki Miyake, Onimusha Blade Warriors is a 2D fighting game very much like a classic fighter game. It was developed and published by the industry giant Capcom.
Blade Warriors has many of the popular characters from the Onimusha series, As you might have guessed from the title and by the record of the Onimusha series we have to fight with swords using different combos, moves, and blocks players have to defeat or disarm the enemies. You can absorb souls and conjure elemental attacks just like the original games.
There are also several items that players can use in-game. Just like some other games on the list, there are many playable characters in the game. But when it comes to the Best swordsman of Japan, You have to dig deeper in the game. Miyamoto Musashi is a hidden character in the game and you will have to find him first to play as the duel-wielding swordsman we all know. Onimusha Blade Warriors is available on PS2.
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