Dude, I remember holding a copy of Blood Will Tell at my local Electronic Boutique, trying to decide if I should buy it. The store owner pulled out a GamePro magazine with a review of the game that the author titled "Crap Will Tell", so I decided not to buy it. I never realized this game is a whole lot more than what the reviewer let on.

Dude the best part about Blood will tell? Plug in a Second Controller and hand it to a Friend. Now Dororo isnt that useless anymore.

music used in order, in case anyone needs it: > Shisui of Violet Tides (The Open Box) > Byakko's Theme (Amatsu Kaze) > Doma Castle (Gates of Moon) > Kugane Castle (Deception) > Seiryu's Theme (From the Dragon's Wake) all of them are from ffxiv stormblood

A year and a half ago a friend of mine was streaming this game on Twitch, trying to defeat all 48 fiends. At some point he was to confront the butterfly fiend in the bamboo forest, and he also allowed for the stream to have song recommendations to play during gameplay. I suggested Smoking Roll for God Hand. He did not know what Smoking Roll sounded like. My friend was taken aback and sounded like he was tearing up amidst pained laughing when such an awesome design was contrasted against such a goofy song.

The remake anime and live action movie are pretty good.

Holy shit, I knew Tezuka wrote Dororo, but I had no idea Hiroaki Samura did the art for the game. _Blade of the Immortal_ is fucking legendary, and his art style is instantly recognizable. Definitely have to add this to my collection next to my Dark Horse BOTI volumes with the rest of my PS2 games.

"I got my voice back! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Honestly, Cvit’s love for this game has rubbed off on me; RED no longer being with us (in the form it had during the PS2 era) is a massive tragedy

Awesome review. I never even realized Dororo had a videogame adaptation, but it really fits well.

You always look at the coolest freaking games. It really highlights the PS2 as the most experimental and varied consle ever to be created.

This game one thousand percent deserves a remaster, not a remake, a remaster for multiple reasons. One of which include the extremely high price it goes for. I did own a copy about 13 years ago, but had a break in and lost almost my whole collection of games.

Oh, the things I’ll do for a Berserk game with Miyazaki as Artistic director and Itsuno as Gameplay director (a fully fledged game with cover everything up to the end of Fantasia)

Idk who u are but thank u for sharing the footage of this game. My friends wouldn't believe me that there was a dororo game. So when I watched the anime I was shocked a few years back how different it is to the game. I love this game and I completed it without guides😭12 year old me was a different build. Again thank u for making me relive some nostalgia

I had the option of buying a loose disc for this game for $5 a few years ago at a flea market, and now knowing it is really expensive, I'm disappointed I didn't get it.

Another great video of a niche PS2 gem. I also enjoyed your choice of using FFXIV: Stormblood OST, I couldn’t help singing along to “Amatzu Kaze”.

That final QTE looks like nightmare fuel. My condolences.

God, that music in the background SLAPS. Very good review! I'd love to pick this game up sometime.

I own a copy of this game and it's to date one of my favorite action/adventure games. It feels like playing the anime/manga; befitting the classic AND the time it came out. Not to mention it's just timeless.

There was a fairly recent anime re-adaptation of Dororo as well that was downright incredible. It makes significant changes to the main character and tone of the story that really cement its story elements.

This channel and overall concept of reviewing (every?) ps2 action game is so fricking good. The PS2 feels like the last mainline console that had these kind of experimental, 'out there' action games. Looking forward to Musashi Samurai Legend, Skellington May Cry, so many others. Does Rise to Honor count as an action game @Cvit ? 90% of the combat is just hitting the right stick. Also you can play as a headless, roast duck with a code after you finish the game.

I still have this game and I loved it. The mechanics were so great and I never played a game similar to this one. I still remember it dearly and I bought it used just because of to the "Based on Osamu Tezuka's Dororo" line on the back.

Your work for bringing to light these forgotten gems is well appreciated, keep doing God's work

Sword of twin cloud is the same as the sword of 8 clouds. It just doubles your slice per hit. You didn't miss anything as long as you have the 8 clouds one

"Party is over~"

i never imagined that a dororo game existed. i love that anime so MUCH. thank you cvit

I was actually waiting for this game to pop up in your reviews! Probably one of the only games you're reviewing that i actually played, as this genre of gameplay just wasn't something my family ever got into growing up. I have very mixed feelings about this game, since at times actually playing through it felt like i was constantly dragging my legs through broken glass(the final boss especially), but everything else about it stuck with me for well over a decade. "Back to the darkness" and "Away with you!" are phrases i still regularly think about saying! For a genre i had no experience with and a story i had no idea of this game will always hold a special place in my heart, i sincerely hope this game gets a remake in the future. Blood will Tell deserves it.

Appreciate the use of the Storm blood soundtrack during the video :)

I think I was able to land the 48 slash combo vs Behemoth fair and square, but holy shit, what a curveball to throw at you at the very end. The only other game I can think of that does something similar is Alter Echo (please tell me you're planning to review it eventually), which forces you to nail the longest time-freeze timing puzzle in the game to deal the final blow. Also, every once in a while the button prompt randomizer glitches out and just gives you multiples of the same button over and and over. If you get lucky with one of these jackpots on the Behemoth, even a 80+ hit combo wouldn't be out of the question lol.

God this takes me back. I never owned this myself but a friend of mine did and they lent it to me. This game was so rad despite some frustrations and I wish I had my own copy

Hiroaki samura art is insane, the thumbnail really caught my eye

Always a treat seeing him post. Brings back that love for japanese ps2 games.

I think FromSoft could make a Dororo game like this. Sekiro is practically Hyakkimaru already in style and themes (the parallels are striking), now they just need to add a constant AI companion that could be controlled by another player for Co-op play.

3:40 Damn, Amatsu Kaze actually fit with this. Especially during the time when JP dev love to put some funky song on the opening like Onimusha 2....

I remember learning about this game after watching the 60s Dororo anime. One of the saddest trips to ebay I took...

I heared 48 boss fight gauntlet and immediately knew i had to get in on this.

Doro getting totally bodied by the boss LMAOOOOO 6:37 (Also nice touch in using Stormblood OSTs here, it matches the video a lot)

I first saw this video thinking it was a blade of the immortal game just on art alone, to only find out its for a manga I haven't finished yet, can't wait to finish this video later!

Out of all the PS2 action games you've covered, this one looks the most interesting out of all! Can't beleive they actually brought this one to the west

Blood Will Tell is so fucking dope. For a long time my only memory of this was "oh that's the body part pinocchio game where he goes AAAA early on", but there's so much cool stuff in here even if you aren't familiar with the source material.

I haven't finished watching the video yet, i'm only about four minutes in, but i want to state that to me, this is the most enthousiastic you've sounded in a video of yours i've watched that I can remember. Which I mean in the sense of the sense of love for this game that the experience of playing it has left you with.

One of my favorite games ever. Replayed it a bunch. Disc is still in great shape. Nothing like the first time you play through tho

I play that game 2005 and never finished it 100%.I can, no matter how hard I try make 48 cuts on the last boss but I have good memories on that game

The audio effect at 5:10 is called the flanger effect, many rap songs do this for a cool effect to add emphasis on something and make it unique sounding.

Highly recommend the 2019 Dororo anime, too.

Man this game gives me such fun memories, I was lucky enough to get to stream it again a few years ago and the audience loved it since they had never heard of this game which was such a shame. honestly dorororo is close to a hidden gem as you're ever going to get on a PS2 next to R.A.D anyway

Another game i remember looking at during 2000s gamestop and drooling over it but not buy 😢 thank you for doing it justice

Gonna have to play this before I watch the video. I always had my eye on Blood Will Tell, but a physical copy is ridiculously expensive. Luckily I modded my PS2 last year, so nothing is really stopping me from playing it.

I remember playing this game when I was a kid. It was a part of my dad's game collection. I loved it so much, although the game disc ended up scratched after a while and it'd freeze up halfway through. Thank god for emulators.

Wow, for its time. This game seems pretty cool. Looks like there are a lot of different types of attacks, ranged moves and spells too. Moves look pretty cool too.

I can't stress enough how much i enjoy this series. The PS2 really did have some incredible and creative action games.

I remember playing this on Matrix mod PS2 arcade around 2015.

Shout out to Tezuka Osamu that man’s work still has impact.

I still have my copy of this game and it's in really good condition too! I absolutely loved this game when it was released.

I wish I knew about this game years ago when it came out back in 2004. I would've enjoyed this game a lot. Makes me want to go back and play my PS2 now.

Damn looking back at the video quality from the ps2 from present day, man its really different.

Blade of immortal on thumbnail is a dope ass manga

This game looks so unbelievably sick. I thought it was going to be a blade of the immortal adaptation but this is even more interesting.

The thing I hate about being a gamer in this day and age is that many "rare" games aren't actually rare or, at the very least, not as rare as people hype them up to be. The reality is that most "rare" games are trapped behind astronomically inflated prices or horded by resellers and collectors. Currently as I write this, there are: 23 copies of the US version of Blood Will Tell, 14 copies of Kuon, and 20 copies of Rule of Rose, on the Bay and most of them are complete. I hate to say it, but youtubers (not you) over hype rarity of games and are a large reason the gaming market is messed up. I can guarantee if people didn't talk about or over hype the rarity of games and just simply talked about the game itself (gameplay, graphics, design, development, controls, etc.), the prices wouldn't be nearly as high as they are today. Over hyping rarity creates false demand and makes the resellers and flippers buy up all the inventory, an example of this would be like what happened with the NES an SNES Mini consoles. Nintendo scared people into thinking it was more rare than it was and people were buying up as many as they could and trying to flip them for a higher price online. This caused stores to be constantly sold out, but there was plenty online for about 2X - 4X the price.

Blood Will Tell is at first frustrating due to Hiyaki being totally crippled. The frustrating struggle playing crippled is translated very well. I enjoyed the viseral slaughter of eeeveil demons who attempted to prevent the tool of their own destruction from becoming whole. - thanks for the no spoilers presentation Civit. - & Gamestop be damned ! for discarding the covers & instruction manuals for thousands of games. I still have my copy of Blood Will Tell (1 of the few w/o cover/manual) $400. what the...

Loved this game as a kid but I remember never being able to best the final boss

This actually looks like a really cool game, i kinda want to try it now ! Thanks cvit for the discovery !

Because I might be from your génération (late 80's) I do understand and can feel perfectly what you mean by all of this and I also agree 💯 Ps2 was our golden era as kid. We had time to experience the évolution of this kinda game almost from 0. And it was such a fantastic aventure, wasnt it ? +1 sub mate, keep going🔥 Games are a part of our childhood and even influenced our personalities for some of us 🫡

I remember looking at it on the shelf and asking out loud "He has a cannon where?!"

For years all I had was a memory of watching my dad play the first level of this game, then I found it and was able to watch the whole thing on KZfaq. A pretty cool game, wish I got to play it.

think the price hike is due to the newer anime that came out just a few years ago that drew attention to the series. Show was bloody fantastic, and the only reason how I found out about this game

This game really looks peak but I'm not up for selling organs... yet. Also good job on releasing another banger oomfy

No way. I cannot believe this game gathering dust on my shelf is really worth this much.

"Blood Will Tell" is a dope title though

Blood will tell and Ico were my favorite PS2 games. I was surprised that no one knew about Blood will tell. Glad its finally getting recognition!😊

Can i suggest Rising Zan Samurai Gunman? Is like someone made a DMC clone before DMC... On the PS1

About dororo there is a really good animated series done not so long ago , it is a remake in that it doesnt cover all the parts but more streches it to like 10/15 parts and it is extremely good

I'm one of those guys who actually found it in a bargain bin shortly after release still have mine and it's my favorite ps2 game and I doubt I'm ever going to sell my copy still in perfect condition😂. Also the slashes all have paterns there are about 4 or 5 combination that start over at 25 slashes once you memorize them it's easy to get into a rythem

I actually owned this game at one point back in the early 2000s, bought it at EB Games when I worked at the local mall.

I saw the thumbnail and thought there was a Blade of the Immortal game. On closer inspection, it looks like Samura just did the art for this. Nice.

It'd be nice if expensive games like this one got remastered/rereleased for both current consoles and pc. These companies have been pretty neglectful rereleasing games from the 6th and 7th gen of consoles. I appreciate that studios like Nightdive Studios focus on remastering or even remaking FPS games. But, they haven't done this for FPS games from the 2000s and early 2010s, my favorite FPS games of all time came out during those years. Pretty burned out with 1990s FPS design.

Wow, the sword arms reminded me of the South American warrior Galvarino!

one of my favorite ps2 games! btw, the last boss's rush flight is easier with the arm swords. I love this game so much I grinded to level up the swords to lvl99... wasn't worth it lol

i was literally thinking 'this look like that game with the samurai with swords for hands' my uncle and dad would routinely pick up games for us after work and this was one of them, killer7 was another

Oddly enough, sometime last week i saw someone talking about Dororo, and it wasn't until i went to do some reading about this that i connected the two. >>

12:30 I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who was completely stuck on this secret

the design of that sword really worked out in your favor since its x3 per slash, and you need 48 total. you ended up beating the boss with exactly your max 16 slashes LMAO

I like how much appreciation you show when you speak

I'm a huge fan of Dororo and Tezuka's work so I'm surprised I never played this, I vaguely remember hearing that there was PS2 adaptation of the manga but I shrug it off thinking that it was probably one of those cheap IP adaptations but now I know how wrong I was, I had to pause the video because you convinced me to play it, so I'm gonna do that and watch it after, thanks a lot for introducing me to it though!

This is my go-to for incredibly under-rated PS2 game. Seen a nearby game store selling a copy of it for $130 around five years ago. Thought, "wow, there's no way that's a proper price." Looked it up online real quick. Nope, I was wrong. Glad I got it back when it was only $20. I do wish there was a New Game+ that allowed players to keep that one sword that makes getting the rare drops incredibly easy.

The king has returned! Love love all these obscure action games

Wow. Did you upscale this? The quality of this game looks phenomenal for ps2

I love the gungrave series for it's old ps2 aesthetic and jank but satisfying gameplay so it is fantastic to see that they kept making that style of game... and now this one is on my radar even with it's incredible price...

I'd love a remaster for this and samurai western.

Not gonna lie, I clicked on this video thinking it was about a Blade of the Immortal Manga game adaptation I never knew existed because of the video cover. I am a big fan of the story and can recognize the artists drawings form a mile away LMAO

So cool how weapons and qte works in this game

This would be the perfect game for a remaster.

I never had a ps2 as a child, but as a teenager, a guy exchanged it for my Super Nintendo, and Dororo was, along with Shadow of the Colossus, one of the games that most impacted me. When I heard an anime was being made, I could not hold my excitement over it. Thankfully, both experiences were very enjoyable - and the anime has a banger of an opening.

You haven't try out the best stealth game of the PS2 era: Shinobido: Way of the Ninja

HOLY SHIT, I didnt know. Dororo game existed, the modern remake was such a great anime

seeing that backlog list we have similar tastes . this looks like one of the ps2 classics that is very difficult in a good way. that final boss look so aestheticilly pleasing . maybe i should watch the show before playing this game.

For some unknown reason, I believed I have played this game before. Eitherway, fun video man, gives nostalgia for ps2

I rented it at Blockbuster once and loved it not realizing till like 20 years later it was built upon that anime/manga/story Dororo

Omg I wish I still had my copy. Found it for 10 bucks back in 07. Absolutely love this game, my #1 PS2 game. This 100% felt like I was playing through an Anime. So many PS2 games had that feel before the copy and paste arena fighter era took over

Wow, just finished the 2019 remake series of Dororo. They basically used these character designs. I had no idea there was a ps2 game.

Wow, good thing there are others who enjoy playing such games and making videos about them because I surely would've given up on ever finishing them.