@@MaleOrderBride the characters do have meaning, like tokyo, for instance, mean east 東 capital 京, but some might have their meaning changed over the years, so even if you search the characters separatedly on a dictionary, it might not be very accurate. Edit: I didn't really answer your question, but yes, they are just place names, they don't have specific meanings in the game (like evil castle, for example).
Not just one of the greatest games on the SMS but one of the greatest home games ever. Amazing playability, learning curve just perfect, with super graphics and atmosphere. Very fond memories of this game.
one of the 10 best games of the SMS, it had everything: great gameplay, superb graphics and art direction for its time, smooth animation, progressive difficulty, excellent music
Kenseiden (剣 聖 伝 in Japanese, meaning "legendary sacred sword") is a 2 mega game for the Sega Master System video game, created by Sega in 1988. In this game, the player controls a samurai named Hayato, who travels through Japan to retrieve the Dragon King's Sword and the five scrolls that are inherited from his family, stolen by the Warlocks who ruled the country, and destroy Black Castle. In the original Japanese version of the game, Hayato is blond, but in the American version his hair changed to dark. A drawing of Alex Kidd's head shows hidden in the walls of the third stage.
I just noticed also how detailed this is. Your character actually is animated properly depending on the side he's facing. I mean the sword is always wielded by is left arm. Wow.
I was so little when my dad bought me this game as a kid. The opening screen was terrifying lol! I love the different sword techniques u learn as u progress. Playing Sekiro brought back memories of this classic
kzbxvz nope. I beat it once in 88. got sms Christmas. 6 months later I beat this game days before my buddies and I burned out the console playing it for 14 hours straight while it sat on a hot TV. I just got another a few weeks ago and am playing kenseiden regularly... haven't even made it through 1/2 the game yet. Death.
kzbxvz It's a great, classic game, it's very clearly made by the same team as made Revenge of Shinobi. It plays more like a 16-bit game than an 8-bit one.
My memories of playing at night time in my cold garage alone are precious to me. No game has ever come close to enchanting me as much as this game did. Gave me goose bumps watching this. Thank you for posting.
Christmas of 1989, I got a Master System with the light gun, and the console had Safari Hunt and Hang On built in. The first cartridge game was Kenseiden, and I loved it.
One of my all-time favorite SMS games. But man was it hard... never was able to finish it. I wonder how many Master Systems were smashed against the wall because of it lol.
I never knew this game existed until now and it seems to have inspired some things in the Shinobi series, which are some of my favorite games that I play since I was a kid. 1st stage background reminds me of Revenge of Shinobi 1st stage background. Also parts of the 2nd stage reminds me of the 'Castle' stage in GG Shinobi 2 and the 2nd stage boss is similar to the Genesis version of Shadow Dancer's 4th stage boss. Seems like fun
The whole console is very underrated. While it didnt have the extensive library the NES has a lot of the SMS games are fun and look and sound awesome. This definitely is one of them. Not to mention some of the arcade ports look great on the SMS as opposed to the NES. Nintendo just had better marketing at the time and more to offer. Lots of people weren't impressed with tech specs back then nor things like 3D glasses. Their light phaser still looks cooler to me.
After 25 years, I can finally see how this game ended. I vividly remember playing this when I was a kid. I mastered all the controls and the challenges, even getting up early Saturday mornings to play this, but I could NEVER beat that final boss. A little pro tip that I picked up for the penultimate boss at 31:40, I use to just crouch down and hold the attack button. This way any orbs that came flying your way would automatically get cut down by your sword, without having to mash the attack button.
Tom .Mr. T. Same here! I never beat the final boss, but he somehow used a magic potion and got his life back. Which button was that? I wanna try again in a emulador
The potion happens automatically if you have one. It's close to impossible to beat the last boss without it so if you use yours up it's game over. It's also more or less a necessity to beat the one training room that gives you the life boost (on same island as monk boss.)
Finished it just the other day. Great game that was my first ever video game :) Still haven't been able to finish all dojo training levels. Too damn hard!
This sort of reminds me of a similar game from Konami for the Famicom called Getsufuu Maden, which sadly was never released to the U.S. in the same way that Sega's Kenseiden was. Thanks for the video, sempai!
best platform game I played on sega master system. My big brother owned one and I remember playing around 7. This game I could never beat to my knowledge. I made it really close. Extremely difficult. I love the moves and ect.
My son always pesters me to try "real games" like Dark Souls, I tell him I don't need to, as I completed Kenseiden 30 years ago, and at the time it was rock hard to beat, very like Souls games, learning the patterns of each enemy type etc.
could somebody tell me how to deal with the second boss (around 7:26 in this video) ? I don´t get it, is there a special point or time when you can hit him? Most of the time my hits against his legs are totally useless?
one of my favorite games ever. Loved everything about it: the nocturnal setting and yokais, the hard gameplay, nonlinear exploration, the crazy sword powerups, the graphics and last and greatest - the music is just too good. And don't be fooled by the half-hour Speedrun here: you'd lose weeks or months until mastering all its secrets it to be able to beat it. There was no save in this game. I always thought it was some arcade port such was its quality.
There's LOTS of reasons to own a SMS. Space Harrier, Double Dragon, Wonder Boy, Road Rash, Sonic, Shinobi, Black Belt, Alex Kidd, Ghost House, literally every light gun game and the greatest 8 bit RPG of all-time, Phantasy Star.
I don't even remember if i beat this game. I remember it was very tough. Sega was really ahead of the NES in the quality of the side scrolling action games. Compare this game shinobi and kung fu kid vs the NES ones like castelvania and kung fu and there's a pretty noticeable difference.
Add Black Belt to that list. The levels may have been a bit repetitive but the bosses (and even the mini bosses) were unique and tough as nails to beat. Great soundtrack as well. Sega got so much right in the 80's and 90's!
the history and culture of japan made this really fun for me and my best friend at the time. we spent hours trying to win, which we finally did. we'd just keep switching off and make our way through the game. it was fun reading the gamplay manual too, the names and characters, wheee!
Chris Whitson Yeah, it's definitely the same team. AM8/Team Shinobi/Overworks. GG Shinobi has a very similar stage to the "vertical" castle stages in Kenseiden.
11:16 slc velho essa fase era a mais dificil, demorei pra krl pra passar dela, passei mt raiva, vc levava um dano e ja tinha que recomeçar td de novo, nmrl da raiva até de lembrar.
This game in Rambo was the hardest but my favorite adventure games on Sega 8-bit I forgot how to spell and pronounce this but I've been looking for it for years no one ever knew what I was talking about
Recuerdo que mi hermano mayor nos regaló este sega brasilero con cassette muy distintos al sega génesis hasta el día de hoy el sega grande llamado sega máster system me funciona de diez y es muy viejito que recuerdos tan bellos algo así nunca más viviré por qué el mundo a cambiado y la gente de ahora ya no es la misma antes teníamos sentimientos sanos y no con maldad perversa como ahora gracias por esto
Great game, makes me want to search out a mastersytem and play this and wonder boy, alex the kid and choplifter again! 43 years old and counting! Lol 😂☝🏼
![Master System Longplay [026] Golden Axe](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OHbJLhumzUs/mqdefault.jpg)
Just out of curiosity, these are the names of each province that appears in the game:
肥後 - Higo _(hi•go)_
筑前 - Chikuzen _(chiku•zen)_
伊予 - Iyo _(i•yo)_
出雲 - Izumo _(i•zumo)_
土佐 - Tosa _(to•sa)_
摂津 - Settsu _(set•tsu)_
伊賀 - Iga _(i•ga)_
加賀 - Kaga _(ka•ga)_
大和 - Yamato _(yama•to)_
尾張 - Owari _(o•wari)_
駿河 - Suruga _(suru•ga)_
越中 - Etchuu _(et•chuu)_
越後 - Echigo _(echi•go)_
水戸 - Mito _(mi•to)_
江戸 - Edo _(e•do)_
Thank you!!...but do the names mean anything? Like "Evil Temple"? Or are they just place names that mean nothing like "Tokyo"?
@@MaleOrderBride the characters do have meaning, like tokyo, for instance, mean east 東 capital 京, but some might have their meaning changed over the years, so even if you search the characters separatedly on a dictionary, it might not be very accurate.
Edit: I didn't really answer your question, but yes, they are just place names, they don't have specific meanings in the game (like evil castle, for example).
@@luizm-s9t thank you very much!!
like, edo is an old name for tokyo
長門 - Nagato _(naga•to)_
I loved this game as a kid I remember getting this and R-Type for Christmas in 1989..man time flies so fast
It sure does I’m 42 fucking old now lol 😂
I’ll take the age L though cause we got to live in the 80s and 90s!! Best time ever to be a kid
Not just one of the greatest games on the SMS but one of the greatest home games ever. Amazing playability, learning curve just perfect, with super graphics and atmosphere. Very fond memories of this game.
one of the 10 best games of the SMS, it had everything: great gameplay, superb graphics and art direction for its time, smooth animation, progressive difficulty, excellent music
I totally agree 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋
Yup my fav SMS game
I love that your weapons would upgrade
not to mention a bit non linear
You need glasses and a copy of Shinobi.
This is by far one of the best SMS games. In fact, one of the best games of any 8 bit console. It is just criminaly underrated.
Absolute 8-bit masterpiece. As a kid I had lots of trouble beating it but succeeded sometimes.
This game has great music.
I also love this kind of dark mythical Japanese feel that the game gives off.
Kenseiden (剣 聖 伝 in Japanese, meaning "legendary sacred sword") is a 2 mega game for the Sega Master System video game, created by Sega in 1988.
In this game, the player controls a samurai named Hayato, who travels through Japan to retrieve the Dragon King's Sword and the five scrolls that are inherited from his family, stolen by the Warlocks who ruled the country, and destroy Black Castle.
In the original Japanese version of the game, Hayato is blond, but in the American version his hair changed to dark.
A drawing of Alex Kidd's head shows hidden in the walls of the third stage.
5:00 An Alex Kidd head on the wall.
i saw it you are right
Thanks man :)
I don't see it....top of screen or lower half?
@@joeb2588 at 5:04, straight down the character
Holy shit!!! 32 years later ... I see it!!!!
I just noticed also how detailed this is. Your character actually is animated properly depending on the side he's facing. I mean the sword is always wielded by is left arm. Wow.
Never realized that, wow
Wow. I had this game and played through it many times as a kid, but I don't thibk that I noticed that before. Good eye and thanks for sharing!
They put all that detail into the game only to mess it up in the ending sequence (he wears the sword on his left there)
I was so little when my dad bought me this game as a kid. The opening screen was terrifying lol! I love the different sword techniques u learn as u progress. Playing Sekiro brought back memories of this classic
Honestly this should have been one of Sega's top franchises, it could have rivaled Castlevania.
Distinct enough from Shinobe?
@@donkeyparadise9276 yes, nothing alike
@@dexterramey8787first stage looks just like the one from Revenge, though.
@@dexterramey8787and the first boss is just like the fourth from Shadow Dancer.
Well that is too much said, Castlevania is very higher level. Never liked "what if " in videogames
Gotta love the translation: "Thou have learnt to slash with your sord"
Sega 4:13
A very underrated sms game in 1988 in fact it's one of the best platformers ever created for the Sega Master System or I'm totally wrong?
kzbxvz nope. I beat it once in 88. got sms Christmas. 6 months later I beat this game days before my buddies and I burned out the console playing it for 14 hours straight while it sat on a hot TV. I just got another a few weeks ago and am playing kenseiden regularly... haven't even made it through 1/2 the game yet. Death.
Glad to hear you suffer :)
kzbxvz It's a great, classic game, it's very clearly made by the same team as made Revenge of Shinobi. It plays more like a 16-bit game than an 8-bit one.
Relugus I love it. the option to choose your next province, difficulty and earned sword technique etc are exceptional for 8 bit
kzbxvz one of the best games growing up love it
My memories of playing at night time in my cold garage alone are precious to me. No game has ever come close to enchanting me as much as this game did. Gave me goose bumps watching this. Thank you for posting.
Christmas of 1989, I got a Master System with the light gun, and the console had Safari Hunt and Hang On built in. The first cartridge game was Kenseiden, and I loved it.
Um dos melhores jogos e Master System.
One of my all-time favorite SMS games. But man was it hard... never was able to finish it. I wonder how many Master Systems were smashed against the wall because of it lol.
Eu zerava ele com frequência. Tem um macete que fazíamos aqui no Brasil.
I never knew this game existed until now and it seems to have inspired some things in the Shinobi series, which are some of my favorite games that I play since I was a kid. 1st stage background reminds me of Revenge of Shinobi 1st stage background. Also parts of the 2nd stage reminds me of the 'Castle' stage in GG Shinobi 2 and the 2nd stage boss is similar to the Genesis version of Shadow Dancer's 4th stage boss. Seems like fun
Here for the nostalgia. This music takes me back. That bonus stage music is too good. I'm either going to make that or the map music my new ring tone.
I played this game a lot when I was a kid, Kenseiden have very good level of difficulty,
Brings me good memories of that time... Late 80s to 90s
Just rebought this game to play on my Mega SG... takes me back to 1989... great look at a great game...
I was playing this when my mum came in and told me Princess Diana died. I didn't care, to be honest. But they say you always remember where you were.
Kensiden is legendary with Spectacular graphics ABSOLUTELY AMAZING gameplay
This to me is hands down one of the most underrated games ever
Yah, back during the SMS and NES there were so many games that the SMS could do that the NES couldn't. This was one of them for sure.
The whole console is very underrated. While it didnt have the extensive library the NES has a lot of the SMS games are fun and look and sound awesome. This definitely is one of them. Not to mention some of the arcade ports look great on the SMS as opposed to the NES. Nintendo just had better marketing at the time and more to offer. Lots of people weren't impressed with tech specs back then nor things like 3D glasses. Their light phaser still looks cooler to me.
Amen brother man! It was obviously the inspiration for later shinobi titles ....
zombiejlt1 but you did just mention it.
Game is a masterpiece
Great memories! 👍
After 25 years, I can finally see how this game ended. I vividly remember playing this when I was a kid. I mastered all the controls and the challenges, even getting up early Saturday mornings to play this, but I could NEVER beat that final boss. A little pro tip that I picked up for the penultimate boss at 31:40, I use to just crouch down and hold the attack button. This way any orbs that came flying your way would automatically get cut down by your sword, without having to mash the attack button.
Tom .Mr. T. Same here! I never beat the final boss, but he somehow used a magic potion and got his life back. Which button was that? I wanna try again in a emulador
Had the same issue my friend could do it I could never do it.
The potion happens automatically if you have one. It's close to impossible to beat the last boss without it so if you use yours up it's game over.
It's also more or less a necessity to beat the one training room that gives you the life boost (on same island as monk boss.)
Damnnnn.....you played this like a boss! I was way too inpatient as a kid
Expensive and rare game to see nowdays
4:56 - É possivel ver um cameo do Alex Kidd na caverna com sua cabeça estampada na parte de baixo do background rente ao chão.
Sim kkkk
im crying
this was my childhood game
Alex Kidd face at 4:55. Bottom right. Never saw it when i played this game many years ago.
lol i saw that befor but just thought it was another skull. didnt realize it was alex hehe
me neither crazy
A classic game rite here i remember me and my cousins playing this game for hrs bacc in 88'
This is like Shinobi meets Castlevania!
good comparison
4:55 if you look along the ground on the right hand side of the screen, you can find an easter egg for Alexx Kidd.
original! melhor jogo de master
I had forgotten what this game was called! A true classic
Had this and spellcaster as a kid loved them
One of my 1. games and i loved it :)
God I loved this game as a kid.. played this for HOURS!!!
Omg! What a jewel! Gonna play it right now! I would have a loved this is as child. Thx for sharing.
Love this game to this day. Unbelievable.
Best christmas present ever. I got the SEGA Master System and this game for christmas in 86'. I played this game until my fingers bled!
It came out in ‘88.
@@roderickstockdale1678 Really? One year before the Batman movie? Those years have kind of melted together!
@@velveetaslingshot yes. What’s it say on the title screen?
Finished it just the other day. Great game that was my first ever video game :)
Still haven't been able to finish all dojo training levels. Too damn hard!
Bonjour merci pour la video un régal pour l'époque thx.
Je connaissais pas ce jeu.C'est cool de découvrir des pépites oubliées comme ce jeu ☺
Sooooo many memories. Thanks for the upload!! 👌👍
I remember playing this many times at my friend's house as a kid. Loads of fun!
This was one of my first Master system games :D
Good times. I remember getting frustrated trying to get past the arrows at some point. I don't think I ever finished it.
I don't about anybody else.... But the music on level 14:05 goes absolutely hard as fuck... Slapper!!
This sort of reminds me of a similar game from Konami for the Famicom called Getsufuu Maden, which sadly was never released to the U.S. in the same way that Sega's Kenseiden was.
Thanks for the video, sempai!
And people think that Dark Souls is hard... smh.
Lol yesss That game was freaking hard!! I remember when I was a child this game frustrated me a lot xDD
alxxz Revenge of Shinobi is very similar, too. The second stage is very similar to a stage in GG Shinobi.
It's Sekiro for Master System.
I almost cleared the game. But the Final Boss was harder to defeat
I beat the game once or twice!
best platform game I played on sega master system. My big brother owned one and I remember playing around 7. This game I could never beat to my knowledge. I made it really close. Extremely difficult. I love the moves and ect.
I try to beat this game in the 80's and only beat like 3 times. I was addicted to this game so freaking bad. The soundtrack is fucking awesome
didn't get any better than this in 88. brilliant game, and even with the cheat this guy is using, you can tell how rock hard it is.
My son always pesters me to try "real games" like Dark Souls, I tell him I don't need to, as I completed Kenseiden 30 years ago, and at the time it was rock hard to beat, very like Souls games, learning the patterns of each enemy type etc.
could somebody tell me how to deal with the second boss (around 7:26 in this video) ? I don´t get it, is there a special point or time when you can hit him? Most of the time my hits against his legs are totally useless?
Watch his legs ;)
When his Legs are togehter you can hit him.
The amount of time I sunk into this game as a kid was unreal..
3:16 eu tinha medo disso, vsf mano kkkkkk. Bons tempos e só relembrando a infância
Eu tinha medo do jogo inteiro kakakakaka
@@gustavotrb Exatamente kk, até a trilha sonora me assombrava.
Eu também tinha kkk. Talvez esse seja o jogo mais difícil do master.
Eu tinha medo do segundo Boss, aquele com o bastão com pregos jjjjkkk
Eu não conseguia era matar.
Thx for bring me back to childhood
One of the best gamer EVER.
Well the giant eyeball boss was as far as I got in this game whenever I rented it
one of my favorite games ever. Loved everything about it: the nocturnal setting and yokais, the hard gameplay, nonlinear exploration, the crazy sword powerups, the graphics and last and greatest - the music is just too good.
And don't be fooled by the half-hour Speedrun here: you'd lose weeks or months until mastering all its secrets it to be able to beat it. There was no save in this game.
I always thought it was some arcade port such was its quality.
My dad brought this title for xmas back in the day. Very nice!
Still one of the only reasons to own a Sega Master System, it's not a masterpiece but it's one that would make Castlevania fans jealous.
Come on... Shinobi is a million times better than this rubbish.
There's LOTS of reasons to own a SMS. Space Harrier, Double Dragon, Wonder Boy, Road Rash, Sonic, Shinobi, Black Belt, Alex Kidd, Ghost House, literally every light gun game and the greatest 8 bit RPG of all-time, Phantasy Star.
I don't even remember if i beat this game. I remember it was very tough. Sega was really ahead of the NES in the quality of the side scrolling action games. Compare this game shinobi and kung fu kid vs the NES ones like castelvania and kung fu and there's a pretty noticeable difference.
Add Black Belt to that list. The levels may have been a bit repetitive but the bosses (and even the mini bosses) were unique and tough as nails to beat. Great soundtrack as well. Sega got so much right in the 80's and 90's!
@@artiegohome
I used to play the heck out of black belt. Those boss battles were almost arcade-like.
the history and culture of japan made this really fun for me and my best friend at the time. we spent hours trying to win, which we finally did. we'd just keep switching off and make our way through the game. it was fun reading the gamplay manual too, the names and characters, wheee!
Só de ouvir essa música já dá vontade de chorar. Que saudade
Jogo sombrio e macabro. Quem joga Dark Souls deveria gostar.
How the hell did I beat this game as a kid?
You're lucky! I never did!
+Kojain me neither
I did too, think some magazine helped me hehe
I got to the last boss but never knew how to beat him
I was just thinking the same thing. This game did take a lot of effort. Which is why I still remember it so well.
The animation whe you got hit really stunned me. I had no idea you could make so nice animations on a Master System. The game looks cool. =)
But it is a precursor to the knockbacks
@@toddlindsay8846 Maybe not a precursor but at least par for the course for the time. =)
I watched this in silence and enjoyed it with no one knowing.
Amazing sprite animation 😀😀
Best sword hit sound ever
I loved this game back as a kid. A part of me wonders of this was made by the same programmers that made the Revenge of Shinobi?
Chris Whitson Yeah, it's definitely the same team. AM8/Team Shinobi/Overworks.
GG Shinobi has a very similar stage to the "vertical" castle stages in Kenseiden.
The enemy variety is astounding
It's rare to see a Master System game that I never played before.
11:16 slc velho essa fase era a mais dificil, demorei pra krl pra passar dela, passei mt raiva, vc levava um dano e ja tinha que recomeçar td de novo, nmrl da raiva até de lembrar.
kkk tbm, agr eu ja gravei aonde tem todas as flechas
Era difícil pra mim pq era mlk, agora é tranquilo
definitely one of my fav game well done
7:11 "Ooooooowwwwew! Stop hitting me in the kneeeeeeee....Ooooooowwwwew....I just bruised that shit on my coffee table man, Ooooooowwwwew-uuuh!"
loved this game when I was a kid
second challenge stage is fucking me up now. it's why I'm here. to see how to beat it after I've failed at least 100 time the last few days
It's a shame these games were so brutally hard. The nostalgia would hit harder if I had memories of the entire game instead of the first levels.
I beat the game once or twice....I was proud of myself because the last boss was hard as hell
Loved this game as a kid
I think I remember renting this at the video store back in like 1988. I think I took it back because it was so hard for me at the time.
My favourite an one of the best master system game especially playing in FM mode music is awesome
I loved this game, I just liked so much when I was 10!
I loved how the samurai got better sword moves and the ambientation is very good, for me this game was very charismatic
incredible music
side note.. those trial stages are so freaking hard
5:00 Alex Kidd ?
Absolutetly fabulous game, very much alike Castlevania.
Totally agree, I think I like this more than castlevania
Wow, the music 🎵 of this game for that time.
This game in Rambo was the hardest but my favorite adventure games on Sega 8-bit I forgot how to spell and pronounce this but I've been looking for it for years no one ever knew what I was talking about
Eu tinha medo desse jogo quando era pequeno kkkkk
Tio Radioativo kkkk pq vei?
Rafa Magic sla kkkakakssj
o jogo é meio dark kkk
Sério véi eu tbm
Eu tbm achava vey...kkk...
Recuerdo que mi hermano mayor nos regaló este sega brasilero con cassette muy distintos al sega génesis hasta el día de hoy el sega grande llamado sega máster system me funciona de diez y es muy viejito que recuerdos tan bellos algo así nunca más viviré por qué el mundo a cambiado y la gente de ahora ya no es la misma antes teníamos sentimientos sanos y no con maldad perversa como ahora gracias por esto
Amazing game !! So many memories
One the best games I loved and played especially now I get to play it again wit my new FM mod board kit from Tim it's sound great
The real inspiration of Shinobi II (Sega Genesis).
Essa soundtrack é muito fooodaa
I had this game back then good game 😊
Great game, makes me want to search out a mastersytem and play this and wonder boy, alex the kid and choplifter again! 43 years old and counting! Lol 😂☝🏼