So far there are two games for the Sony Playstation, and I have the honor of owning both. Here is the info and my evaluation of the games.
Rurouni
Kenshin -meijiken kakuro mantan - Ishingekitouhen
The first of the two playstation games. This one is a fighting game,
taking place during the first Tokyo story arc. This being one of
my first Playstation games, I was quite surprised with it. It is
first and foremost a generic fighting game. One button does block,
one does a high attack, another a low, together they do a special attack,
and that's about it. With some characters you can do a combination
of a fireball motion (down to left or right) with another button can get
you a neat little move, but it's rather average on that level. That's
not the reason why I like this game. I love this game for the animation.
This game has better animation then the TV series at that time. The
game came out rather early in the television series it seems. The
music from most of the cut scenes are all off the first soundtrack, and
the normal mode of the game ends after you defeat Aoshi. However...
if you defeat the game on Hard, you get to fight Saitou Hajime, and get
all the different cut animations/movies ( which you can view in the options
menu ). This includes all the different animation scenes you'd get if you
let the continue clock run out and the enemy with his victory speech.
Defeat everyone on the VS level and you get Kaoru ( But she's only an option
if playing VS mode, not any other time during the normal play of the game
). To be honest, the animation, although a bit shorter in speechlength
than in the anime, was much more emotionally pulling on me. If you
defeat Saitou, you get to see a 10 minute scene of aftermath. The
death of Ookubo Toshimachi by way of assassination (via a slight glimpse
at Soujirou) and the leader into the Kyoto arc with Kenshin saying goodbye.
It's beautifully animated and by far the reason why I favor this game over
most of my other fighter games still. Too simplistic I guess ^_^
I also generally dislike 3-D fighting environments, but somehow this one
looks all right to me. When you pause it, it does this cool turning
camera angle thing around you until you unpause. Character List:
Kenshin and Sanosuke: These are the guys you can play to get past the story
mode. You start off with Kenshin, Sano you can play AFTER you defeat
him ( he's the first guy, he's not that hard, and you can't go any further
without beating him ^_^ ). Enemies: Jine, Hyottoko, Hannya, Shikijou,
Aoshi, and Saitou. All and all, for Kenshin fans I think it's worth
it. You can defiantly tell that there was a much bigger budget for this
game then there was for the series at that time ^_^x. I'll add pictures
of the game as soon as I can find some decent ones.