TNL Review: Bleach: Dark Souls

TNL writes: "f you were to dismiss a game like Bleach: Dark Souls based solely on its license and choice of platform, it’d be hard to blame you. After all, there have been no shortage of terrible Bleach fighters out there, and the DS is hardly a hotbed of top-tier competitive brawlers. But if looks were never deceiving, the world wouldn’t need critics, and rest assured, this one is most certainly worth a second look.

Dark Souls is the second of Treasure’s DS fighters to bear the license. In many of its concepts, it’s a spiritual successor to their ancient Yuu Yuu Hakusho game on Mega Drive, most famous for birthing the Guardian Heroes fighting engine. Like that game, Bleach supports up to four combatants on screen, with two planes of 2D fighting action that can be travelled between. But in the decade plus that has passed, the formula has been wisely updated into something more modern."