If you’ve ever played Bleach GC: Tasogare ni mamieru shinigami on the Gamecube, Bleach Shattered Blade for the Wii will be very familiar. Barring a few graphical polishes and higher resolution, Shattered Blade looks like it was made on the same engine. The presentation is sleeker, and the supers no longer come in the form of crappy FMVs. In fact, they finally went ahead and added transformations (or power-ups, in the case of most of the characters). Unfortunately, all the updates and tweaks to the game are for naught because Bleach Shattered Blade for the Wii is significantly less enjoyable than its Gamecube predecessor.
The main culprit, and why it’s not even worth reviewing any other aspect of Shattered Blade, is the controls. Like many third party Wii games, Bleach Shattered Blade suffers from a forced attempt to use motion controls. There’s no option to use a classic or Gamecube controller (even though fighters tend to play better with buttons than waggle).
