Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo

Blood Will Tell is based on the Japanese manga series Dororo, which was created by Osamu Tezuka. It concerns a hero named Hyakkimaru, who has had much of his body stolen by forty-eight fiends, and has…

70 9 September 2004 ESRB M

What Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo is

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo is an adventure game developed by Red Entertainment and released in 2004. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 2 only. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It focuses on a hero named Hyakkimaru , who has had much of his body stolen by forty-eight fiends and has prosthetic replacements. Along with his ally, the thief Dororo, Hyakkimaru must defeat all forty-eight fiends.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Blood Will Tell: Tezuka Osamu's Dororo launched on 9 September 2004, within three weeks of Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Rome: Total War, Fable, Burnout 3: Takedown, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

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