I just checked videos of this and blood+onenightkiss
Champloo looks cool, GHM did decent job.
Cutscenes are great, mugen is really funny, i didn't dig anime much but mugen stupidness in the game is unmatched and the VA is supporting his lines.
Blood+ is lame, i found another blood game which is better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qrRPE0okg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i2gfy-_4uA&feature=related
I iwll dload this game
It looks mixture of oneechanbara and khearts
I didnt know of these games before, i was under impression that with NMH suda is bringin totally new style of gameplay mechanics...my bad.
Heck even the cutscenes aren't as good as champloo( i am quite imressed with their work on ps2), the game mechanics are just copy paste
with some tweaking and wiimote.
suda should have gone with blood one night kiss game on Wii to check if masses are ready, it could have saved his time and efforts for some other game.(NHM took much time).
Much better than using old fighting engine and rehashing it for wii into totally new IP.
blood+ could have worked in jap market too.
It seems i have to give credit to champloo.
There is lots other similarities with NMH, the transition of loading screen , the sounds are like NMH, there is cutscene too where mugen girl asks him to bring heavensmile.
And is it me or suda tried to make travis care free stupid dud like mugen?