I used to loved this game, it was one the first games that it was fully voiced, beginning to end. Also, I remember playing the remake for the PS2, which it was terrible.

This game is absolutely fantastic. One of my favorites as a kid.

Anyone who has played Musashi and didn't love it is on some crazy drugs. It was a wonderfully insane product of the times and I honestly adore every cheese eating, figure collecting, giant adventuring bit of it.

Well, except for the steam tree. That was garbage.

Okay, I haven't read this yet - but I frickin' LOOOOVED Brave Fencer Musashi when I was younger. I don't remember completing it, so it's actually on my to-play list when I get some time. I absolutely loved the 90's era anime feel, the cheesy but great voice acting and the simple to play gameplay. Goddamn what a game.

Brave Fencer Musashi is a game that passed me by at release because I didn't own a PS1 at the time, and I never did get around to playing it. I really need to change that one of these days. It's a game that's always fascinated me.

Brave Fencer Musashi is a gem.

I have this game It has been sitting on my shelf since 1998. I never finished it.

the music was better than the game.

Brave Fencer Musashi is one of the greatest games I've ever played. Even though I don't own a Playstation system anymore, I still have BFM in my bookcase. Every time I sold or traded games, I just could never part with Musashi. Time to play that shit again.

Comprehensive List of Things I Know About Brave Fencer Musashi: samurai, squaresoft, playstation 1, same voice as Izzy from Digimon.

brave fencer musashi is definitely one of my favourite games of all time. glad it's getting some love.

I'm right there with you. LOVED BFM as a kid.

I'm actually thinking of playing this again from a completely objective point of view and see if it's actually a good game without rose tinted glasses.

This was definitely one of the defining games of my childhood. Glad to see I'm not the only one in the world who played it.

I agree that it's a fantastic game and I think your connection to that event in your life is pretty cool. There are plenty of games (and platforms) that I have that sort of connection to so that was great to read. I may end up downloading that game. I don't think I've played it since renting it back in '98 and I know I never finished it. And you ain't lyin about that soundtrack.

payed it once, when I was a little kid. it was like Mega Man, but with swords.

You made light of what being the parent of a mentally challenged child is like, while talking about a video game you enjoy. I don't understand how you think it's acceptable to do that, or how other posters could defend it.

Making that comparison in the first place is offensive. Taking it further and making the punchline to a "joke" the idea that mentally challenged kids just walk headfirst into walls is despicable.

You can take this comment as me being easily offended, or that I don't understand what you meant, but I felt the need to say this. At least give this sort of thing more thought in the future. Please.

@onekillwonder_: THIS GAME THOUGH! I played it for the first time as a demo on a PS1 disk that came with a magazine I bought one day with my allowance when I was 7 (It also included a demo of Cool Boarders 3). I had completely forgotten the title of it until I saw this on the community highlights. It's been bugging me for 14 years. Thank you so much for this, truly. I can't wait to track it down and finally play the full game.

@cityname: Glad I could be of service! I hope you can find a copy for a reasonable price and enjoy it as much as I did.

I love this game and agree its probably one of the best ever made. Gonna go dust my copy off and give it a go again.

This article made me go read Musashi's wikipedia page, along with the one for seppuku. Very interesting stuff.

I don't even have to finish reading your post. (No offense) Because I KNOW I love this game to death and I agree with you that it's a little disheartening to not see it mentioned more often these days. I could not recommend this game more to anyone wanting a good, funny and classic game. Brave Fencer Musashi will be one of my top games for life.

I always wanted to play Brave Fencer but didnt get to it.

I'm confused. The link on the main page led to this thread, which says it was posted by OneKillWonder_, but the first post is by RenegadeSaint. Seems like there's supposed to be an article or something here but I don't see it.

Brave Fencer Musashi was my first Playstation game along with Castlevania SOTN. I bought it because I wanted something sort of like Zelda, and I sort of got that. But I never got the timing of the attacks, I didn't get far in the game, and I hardly played it.

Interesting to see all this love for the game. The last time I had ever mentioned it, people seemed to just thoroughly loathe everything about its existence.

@mormonwarrior said:

Curiously enough, I'd say Majora's Mask beats Ocarina of Time, hands down. I can't really say how either of them compare to Musashi, however, as it's been goddamn ages since I played that game and I barely remember it. Though I suppose that says something all on its own, hmm?

EDIT: Oh, shit, didn't realize that this was from a month ago, saw the thread on the frontpage and assumed it was new. My bad. :P

Exactly what I was thinking. What happened to this thread?

Agreed its been almost 12 years since i finished BFM ever since that time i never found any game like this. Of course i played others game as well but these game is never erased from my memories and i wonder why. If you calling a jrpg type game in psx theres also FFVII and Breath of Fire. because the game ost was to great I downloaed all Original Sound Track of BFM. Its just awesome rather than any game i've ever met (even KoH) because its "Matched" with the game thats all.

And the game it self also interesting. From Real Time Based Day/Night and nature,Combo System,Item Usage, Level Grinding/Stats, Puzzles , Toys?? WT!F?!,.. , Story Line,Full Voice Acted,Background music (10/10 trust me), etc.

Cons :

What makes it TheBest?

Thats all i can say about this game and i still own the original game espcially some broken unfounded games in ps1 (like Legend of Legaia that got damaged badly in iso so that mean you can play it till credits). And you asking how do i finish the game at the first time? Codebreaker they said. play cheat they said. its going to be easy they said. not until you found musashi got bugged.

About the sequel : they done pretty well except for the bgm and the story line. Added some characters that make the games refreshing . Added Japanese Anime art(Characters). More Minigames(Riding motorcycles? why not lol). in the end i still did play the game but only for a few hours.

If theres a better remake than the sequel. i do pay for 60 bucks.

I was searching for the same game like brave fencer musashi until I read this. if u ask me...this game is legend. so far these are a few games that give me the same feeling when I play it "megaman legend, Alundra(not sure there is Alundra 1 and 2 I play it realy long time ago), trade of fate, dark cloud 2". if u know more please tell me the list. we probably like the same kind of game. and I'm sorry for my bad english.

@uchihawannabe: Hey, duder! Unfortunately I have even fewer games that give me that same feeling than you do. Megaman Legends is definitely one of them. I don't know if you've ever played Megaman Legends 2, but it's even better than the first and is worth seeking out, although it is very rare and expensive. Both MMLs are some of my favorite games, and I may give them the same blog treatment as Musashi and Parasite Eve 2 someday.

YES!!

I bookmarked this thread. I love the hell out of this game.

Man Brave Fencer Musashi was one of my all time favorites. It was awesome how it developed the town and world surrounding it, and you'd have to revisit areas as the story progressed and changed the world and its inhabitants.

May not sound too impressive but in the PS1 era as a kid? Blew my mind.

I can't believe it's been nearly two years since I wrote this. Holy shit, does time fly. Now that I'm just about done with school, I should definitely do more.

It's still awesome to see new people sharing my love for this great little gem, though. I almost wanna play through it again.

One of the best Zelda games ever made. Had so much personality, humor, fun mechanics, etc. Also showed why Square, at the time, was untouchable IMHO. They could do whatever they wanted.

I just got a nice complete copy of BFM and have been really enjoying it! I realize this thread's getting on in years, but I wanted to share some Musashi love anyway!

P.S.: Fuck those two Steamwood meltdown sequences forever!