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.: March 28, 2013.: June 25, 2013.: October 16, 2013.: October 16, 2013 Mode(s) Muramasa: The Demon Blade, known in Japan as Oboro Muramasa (: 朧村正, 'Hazy Muramasa'), is an developed by for the, and later the. The game was published in 2009 by (Japan), (North America), and (Europe). The Vita version was published in 2013 by in Japan and in Western territories. 2010 becker cpa review pdf free.

Using a 2D side-scrolling perspective, the gameplay revolves around a fighting system, while incorporating role-playing elements such as leveling and questing. Muramasa takes place during the on Japan's main island of. Due to ruling 's thirst for power, conflicts have arisen over ownership of the Demon Blades, samurai swords that force their wielders to kill others before bringing tragedy and madness upon them. The story revolves around two different protagonists related to this conflict — Momohime, a woman who is possessed by the spirit of vengeful Jinkuro Izuna; and Kisuke, an amnesiac ninja on the run for a forgotten crime who is tied up with the tragedy that destroyed Momohime's family.

The Vita port includes four self-contained stories based on Japanese folklore released under the banner title Genroku Legends ( 元禄怪奇譚, Genroku Kaikitan). The concept work for Muramasa began during the middle of development on. Along with improving on the action gameplay over Odin Sphere, a great deal of effort was put into making the game's setting authentic to the period. Kamitani created the story based on kabuki theatre, incorporating Japanese folklore and. When the game released in the West, it retained its Japanese voicetrack to preserve its atmosphere. It released to moderate sales and positive reviews.

The Vita port, released in the West as Muramasa Rebirth, released to strong sales and similar reception to its original version. Player character Momohime fights enemies in a random encounter. Muramasa is a two-dimensional (2D) set on the main Japanese island of during the. Players take control of two characters with similar gameplay abilities.

Navigation takes place through hand-drawn 2D side-scrolling environments reminiscent of Japanese artwork of the period, and can enter towns to talk with non-playable characters (NPCs) and buy items such as health restoratives and accept quests. An additional cooking element allows the characters to cook meals using materials gathered during exploration: meals grant temporary character boosts, and fill a 'fullness' meter that limits how much food a character can eat. Combat comes in the form of both avoidable random encounters and scripted fights where the camera is fixed within the fighting area: enemies and bosses are primarily drawn from Japanese folklore and mythology. Battles are triggered only when enemies are near, with the player character otherwise keeping their weapons sheathed. In combat, characters attack and guard using a single-button prompt, while another button accesses items such as healing potions.

Continuously attacking triggers combos. Different moves include sword slashes combined with directional buttons, which have different effects such as throwing an enemy into the air with an upward slash. Additional offensive items such as smoke bombs are acquired during the course of the game.

At the end of each battle, are awarded to the player character depending on how fast the battle was finished: leveling up increases a character's health, stats, and the amount of damage inflicted upon enemies. Weapons are distinguished into two categories, Blade and Long Blade : Blades are fast, while Long Blades are slower and deal higher damage. Three blades can be equipped at any one time: each blade has its own stats, determining the amount of damage that can be inflicted. When blocking or using a blade's Secret Art special move, its Soul Power gauge depletes: if emptied, the sword breaks and its offensive abilities are drastically reduced. When sheathed, the Soul Power regenerates. Soul Power can be gathered in various locations to restore Soul Power and the character's health. There are 108 blades that can be collected and forged in-game: forging blades requires Soul Power and 'spirit', and each blade has a level cap determining when it can be forged.

Weapon forging is governed by a weapon-based skill tree. Synopsis Setting and characters Muramasa takes place on, the main island of the Japanese archipelago, with its overall style and setting drawing heavily upon Japanese folklore and mythology. It is set in the period, itself within the larger Edo period, during the reign of the.

Tsunayoshi's thirst for power has created conflict around ownership of the Demon Blades, samurai swords forged by the legendary that crave blood when drawn and bring madness and death to those foolish enough to draw them. Due to the chaos generated by this, the Demon Blades' powers begin summoning demons from, along with causing ancient gods to stir from long slumber. The two lead characters are Momohime ( 百姫), a princess of the Narukami clan from the locality of; and Kisuke ( 鬼助), a runaway ninja with no memories but a burning desire for vengeance.

For the course of the game, Momohime is inadvertently possessed by the spirit of Jinkuro Izuna ( 飯綱 陣九朗), an unscrupulous who was trying to possess the body of Momohime's betrothed Yukinojo Yagyu ( 柳生 雪之丞), a high-status samurai. Momohime and Kisuke are each accompanied and watched over by a in human form. They are Kongiku ( 紺菊), who holds unacknowledged affection for Jinkuro, and Yuzuruha ( 弓弦葉), who aids Kisuke in his quest against the Demon Blades' corruption. A key character in Kisuke's storyline is Torahime ( 虎姫), Momohime's sister.

Plot Momohime's Story Momohime's story begins after she wakes up with memories of being killed by the dying Jinkuro when he was aiming for her betrothed, the samurai lord Yukinojo. Upon encountering the spirit of Jinkuro, he forcefully possesses her, but before the process of soul transference is finished, they are attacked. In the confusion, Momohime's soul is kidnapped by the vengeful monk Rankai and Jinkuro is forced to follow Kongiku as Momohime's body will die if her soul is harmed. With her soul safe, Jinkuro sets out to regain the Dark Resurrection Demon Blade so he can properly utilize his Soul Transference Technique and gain influence through a new host. Encountering Yukinojo, who is searching for Momohime, the two battle.

Momohime forces Jinkuro to spare Yukinojo, even when she learns that Yukinojo's intentions in marrying her were part of a scheme to ruin her family as punishment for defying the shogun. Jinkuro goes to Yukinojo's compound to retrieve the Dark Resurrection, but the storehouse where it is said to be is absorbed into Yomi by demons. Descending into Yomi, Jinkuro's soul is briefly captured by a demon, and it is only with Momohime's help that he escapes and learns that the Dark Resurrection was never in the storehouse. With Momohime's body beginning to fail due to the strain Soul Transference put on it, Jinkuro attempts to ascent to Heaven so he can become an immortal demon, but is stopped by and.

While willing to accept his death and allow Momohime her remaining time in her body, Kongiku shows them another way to Heaven. There, Yukinojo appears and reveals that he had the Dark Resurrection all along. They are then attacked by, who is there to deliver divine justice upon Jinkuro. In the first ending, Jinkuro allows himself to be sent to Yomi while Momohime lives; she decides to forgo her marriage to Yukinojo and become a Buddhist nun in the hope of saving Jinkuro's soul through prayer.

In the second ending, Momohime and Jinkuro are intercepted by Kisuke and Yuzuruha, resulting in Kongiku being robbed of her human form as punishment for her defiance. Though defeated, Kisuke delivers a fatal wound to Momohime, forcing Jinkuro to merge his soul with Momohime's to save her: this act leaves her an amnesiac but grants her Jinkuro's sword fighting abilities, which become legendary as she travels Japan in search of her missing memories. In the third ending, after the battle with Fudo-Myoou Jinkuro is transported to the night he first attacked Yukinojo and Momohime with the power of the Oboro Muramasa Demon Blade, which can defy the passage of fate. He chooses not to attack them, then later possesses Yukinojo's body and uses that position to ensure Momohime's safety and her family's security. Momohime herself lives to be one hundred years old and bears three children, while Kongiku remains close to Jinkuro in the guise of a servant. Kisuke's Story Kisuke's story begins with him suffering amnesia and on the run from his former ninja comrades. Returning to to discover the truth in the company of Yuzuruha, he accidentally breaks an ancient seal keeping damned souls at bay.

Defeating the monsters they manifest as, he learns from his mollified ninja companions and their employer Yukinojo that he was part of a mission to steal the Kuzuryu Demon Blade from Momohime's Nakurami Clan and punish them for defying the shogun's order to surrender it, which in turn was tied in with Yukinojo's intentions in marrying Momohime. Yukinojo sends Kisuke against Torahime, Momohime's sister and the in charge of keeping the Kuzuryu's power in check. Pursuing her, Kisuke fights both Torahime and undead soldiers loyal to her family. In pursuit of her, he faces agents who are preserving the flow of magic energy to, including a young. His battles awaken his memories: he was originally disguised as a servant in Torahime's household as part of Yukinojo's scheme to destroy her family, but fell in love with Torahime and attempted to betray his ninja comrades when stealing the Kuzuryu. Dying from his wounds, the spirit of Senju Oboroya, the creator of the Oboro Style that controls the Demon Blades, fused with Kisuke to save his life and pass on the Oboro Style to someone who would use it for good.

The fusion triggered Kisuke's amnesia, but left him with the ability to wield Demon Blades without succumbing to their evil. Rescuing Torahime from the spider demon, Kisuke learns that she died while fleeing from the shogun's forces, and that her present life is a temporary gift from. The two travel to Mount Fuji, where its native dragon god has gone berserk with rage after Japan's energy is diverted to Edo, forcing a route into Heaven. The true culprit is the dark deity imprisoned in the Kuzuryu, the mad god. Upon being confronted, the possessed Shogun Tsunayoshi fatally wounds Torahime, who dies in Kisuke's arms: Kisuke then defeats Tsunayoshi and takes possession of the Kuzuryu. In the first ending, after the battle, Kisuke asks Amitābha to return the now-enlightened Torahime to life, then commits suicide as an act of defiance when his demand is refused.

Torahime asks for her and Kisuke to be reincarnated so she can help him attain enlightenment. In the second ending, Kisuke arrives to find Tsunayoshi killed by the Jinkuro-possessed Momohime.

Kisuke exorcises Jinkuro, and following Torahime's final request becomes Momohime's servant. The two then set out on a personal quest to locate all the Demon Blades causing conflict in Japan. In the third ending, after his battle, Kisuke is sent back in time to the day he first betrayed his employers through the Oboro Muramasa's power.

His warning allows Torahime to foil the plot against her family, then Kisuke steals the Kuzuryu and sets off on a journey round the world to exhaust its power by striking down evil, promising to marry Torahime upon his return. Genroku Legends. The main protagonists of Genroku Legends: from left to right, Okoi and Miike, Gonbe and Otae, Arashimaru and Shirohebi, and Rajyaki and Seikichi. The Genroku Legends are split into four different stories directly inspired by Japanese folklore and set in the Muramasa universe.

In 'Fishy Tales of the Nekomata', a domestic cat called Miike sees her family brought to ruin and all its members killed. Possessing the dying body of the family daughter Okoi and becoming a, she vows revenge against her family's killers, assassins employed by their rival Netsuzo Wakamiya. Despite succeeding, her rage remains unseated and she extends her wrath to the entire household. In the end, her tails are cut off by Jinkuro when he is hired to exorcise her: before being robbed of her powers, she curses Jinkuro with illness, setting the events of Momohime's story in motion. Now at peace, Miike spends time with an old priest and hosts moonlight dances with local cats.

In the alternate ending, Miike becomes a ravenous demon whose rage is finally quelled by the old priest. In 'A Cause to Daikon For', a local farmer named Gonbe stirs up a revolt when the local raises the taxes to the point that his village is on the brink of ruin. Aided by the spirit of his deceased wife Otae, Gonbe fights through the daimyō 's minions before killing him. After the fight, it is revealed that he has been relating his story to and, due to his actions, is condemned to be tormented there.

Due to her love for him, Otae willingly joins Gonbe despite being a pure soul. However, due to the punishment demons being overworked and Gonbe complaining to Enma, he is banished with his comrades and Otae back to the living world, where they get a chance to live in peace under a new and kinder daimyō. In the alternate ending, the entire sequence is said to have been illusions holding Gonbe's spirit captive around the ruins of the daimyō 's castle. He, Otae and his comrades are freed by a traveling Yamabushi and ascend to heaven.

In 'A Spirited Seven Nights' Haunting', the ninja Arashimaru infiltrates the house of the Okabe clan, where Arashimaru steals the sacred Spear of Bishamon and kills the leader of the Okabe clan. After learning that he was actually the leader's son, Arashimaru flees in disgust.

Taking shelter in a shrine, Arashimaru accidentally breaks a mirror sacred to the Goddess Inaraki, who becomes a Shirohebi (white snake) that curses him to die in seven days. Heading to exact revenge on the Iga leader after besting his master Shiranui in combat, Arashimaru learns that his mission was orchestrated by So Xian, a Ming-era Chinese spy working to destabilize Japan's ruling classes who was indirectly responsible for the taking the young Kisuke from his family. Arashimaru kills So Xian and escapes his lair with Shiranui's aid, then goes peacefully to his death after asking the saddened Shirohebi to give his head and Spear of Bishamon to his brother Dengoro so he can restore the Okabe house. Arashimaru's head is given proper burial at the Shirohebi's insistence, and Arashimaru's spirit is due to the grave becoming a prayer site for pilgrims. In the alternate ending, Arashimaru is possessed by So Xian's spirit, who enslaves Shirohebi and takes on the name '. In a desperate act of defiance, Shirohebi has Shiranui spirit away the Okabe clan's last surviving heir during Orochimaru's attack who, when grown, takes on the name ' to fight Orochimaru. In 'Hell's Where the Heart Is', an girl named Rajyaki is sent by her father Enma to seal the treasures of the.

On her journey, a womanizing ex-monk called Seikichi accidentally proposes to her and she accepts him as her husband. In the end, Seikichi saves her after a grueling battle by feeding her the sacred peach of. Due to this, she is banished from Yomi by her father.

In one ending, the Seven Gods of Fortune persuade Rajyaki to return to her father, while Seikichi moves to live a proper life. In the end, Rajyaki returns in human form and formalizes their marriage, which continues after Seikichi dies and goes to Hell. In the alternate ending, Rajyaki and Seikichi run into each other again when she is being hunted by samurai. Seikichi saves her, pretending he killed her and using that to establish himself as a samurai. Rajyaki takes the guise of his human wife, and they have three daughters who bear their mother's demonic horns. The Genroku Legends conclude with the narrator detailing the locations of the Seven Gods' treasures scattered through the stories, and thanking the player for locating them and calming Enma so his demons could return to Hell. Development Muramasa was developed by, a studio created by former staff members to create successor projects to the 2D action-adventure game.

According to sound producer, the game's director was laying out plans for Muramasa when was in the middle of development. According to Kamitani, while Odin Sphere was an evolution of Princess Crown 's narrative, Muramasa provided the chance of evolving its gameplay.

He even went so far as to dub it ' Princess Crown III'. The draft proposal was completed by the end of 2006. The positive sales of Odin Sphere gave Vanillaware the capital needed to begin full development on Muramasa. The game was also co-funded by their publishing deal with, who were sold the project after Odin Sphere 's publisher Atlus refused to take any further products from Vanillaware until Odin Sphere had released, in addition to delaying the game so it would not compete with their main 2007 release. The team's style of development was identical to their strategy for Odin Sphere, although they worked to change up some aspects to make it a unique experience. When developing the game, the team decided to create a vertical plain for players to explore, something which the team had needed to forego with Odin Sphere.

In addition, bathing sequences cut from Odin Sphere were reworked and incorporated into Muramasa as scenes. Muramasa was worked on by 16 people, over half the entire staff of Vanillaware, including Kamitani as the game's writer.

The was chosen as the game's platform of release as its specs were fairly close to that of the, the console for which Odin Sphere was developed. This meant that the team could carry over their earlier experience rather than start from scratch learning about new hardware. Kamitani did create design proposals for versions on the and, but went undeveloped due to budget limitations.

Using the Wii's motion controls was tested by the team, but due to the game's old-fashioned style there was little need to implement them. The biggest problem when developing for the Wii was the graphics, especially how to get the various pieces of artwork in the game's scenery to interact and respond properly. They also wanted to keep loading times down to a minimum, which was made possible due to the Wii's area pre-loading abilities. Technical tinkering of this kind went on until the end of development. The game's programmer was Kentaro Ohnishi, whose biggest challenge was creating a battle system which allowed for cancelling of attacks, while maintaining the appearance of smooth attack animation. The resultant code looked so strange that another programmer thought it was a fault and deleted it, forcing Ohnishi to rebuild it. The team was highly dedicated to the success of the project, putting a large amount of work to make it as good as it could be for players.

By the time of release, funds for the company had been drained. Kamitani wrote the story of Muramasa based on his wish to create a 'ninja Princess Crown'. As Odin Sphere had drawn inspiration from Shakespearean theater, Muramasa instead used as its influence, prompting Kamitani to buy kabuki scripts as part of his research.

Due to this and the script's many references to classic Japanese literature, Kamitani had trouble handling the old-fashioned writing style. As he was nervous about using Japanese mythology so extensively, he also incorporated into the narrative. In creating the game's atmosphere, which was based on Japan as it was in the Edo era combined with local folklore and mythology, the team wanted to create an air of realism within its fantasy world. The game's setting was a heavy departure from Vanillaware's previous games, which had used Western-inspired settings and stories.

The overall atmosphere was meant to emulate those of and. The game's central theme was 'death'. Several potential playable characters and storylines, such as narratives following Jinkuro and Torahime, had to be cut from the game. Elements of the cut storylines were incorporated into Kisuke and Momohime's stories. In keeping with the wish for realism, Momohime and Kisuke were given distinct accents (Momohime used a cultured dialect while Kisuke spoke with an Edogawa accent). Another realistic element was the game's food, which was designed based on the types of delicacies that were popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the folklore references was the 108 Demon Blades in the game, which was a direct reference to the 108 human vices in Japanese folklore.

A number of monsters and deities from Japanese mythology made appearances in the game, and the art style was intended to give a 'Japanese' feel without consciously copying artwork from the game's period. Character designs were handled by Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Yasuo Shirai, Takehiro Shiga, Kouichi Maenou and Ine Kawazu. Kamitani's artstyle choice was influenced by thebright ink-wash style of. He also drew inspiration from the folklore-centered anime series Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi. The artwork was created at double its in-game resolution, then reduced to fit within the hardware. Music The music was handled by a team from sound company Basiscape, composed of multiple composers who had worked on Odin Sphere.

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Sakimoto acted as sound producer, the sound director was Masaaki Kaneko, and the music was composed by Sakimoto, Yoshimi Kudo, Noriyuki Kamikura, Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Kimihiro Abe, Azusa Chiba and. Sakimoto was working on music for Odin Sphere when the project was first proposed, and thought Kamitani was being overambitious working on a premise based in Japan when developing a game based on European mythology. During the initial planning stage, Sakimoto thought the game would be a 'mock-Japanese' project, with Japanese instruments inserted into techno music. Once he realized how sincere Kamitani was with the project, Sakimoto and the team needed to re-identify with the roots of traditional Japanese music. For Sakimoto, his approach was to reconnect with how earlier Japanese people turned their philosophy and worldview into words and music: he carried over this approach into the project. Each of the composers had to go through similar experiences. Release Muramasa was announced at the 2007 (TGS) under the title Oboro Muramasa Yōtōden ( 朧村正妖刀伝, ' The Hazy Legend of Muramasa's Mystical Sword'), alongside its intended platform, setting and gameplay mechanics.

After its announcement, information releases about the game virtually stopped, and an April 2008 report by reported the game's development was 'struggling', although no details were revealed. Muramasa was reintroduced at TGS 2008 under its Japanese title, along with its planned release window in 2009 and details on its characters and story.

The game released in Japan on April 9, 2009, published by Marvelous Entertainment. It was released as part of Nintendo Channel's budget game line-up in January 2010, and re-released on the for in July 2015. It was announced for a release in North America under the title Muramasa: The Demon Blade in October 2008 for a release the following year. The game was originally being published by, but in April 2009 they announced that they were dropping the title from their schedule.

Publishing rights were transferred to. Ignition Entertainment later explained that it was in competition with Xseed and Atlus to acquire the American publishing rights, and after seeing Muramasa at TGS 2008 they were encouraged to apply for the rights. The change between publishers was an internal agreement between Xseed, their parent company Marvelous USA, and Ignition.

The situation was amicably resolved as Xseed already had a large number of Wii titles lined up, and giving Muramasa to another publisher allowed multiple titles not to be overlooked when it came to Western publicity. The game released in North America on September 8, 2009.

The game's localization was done by external localization companies in close collaboration with Ignition Entertainment. Due to the game's strong Japanese atmosphere, it was seen as a hard sell in the West, but during localization a lot of work went into preserving it rather than adjusting it for Western tastes. Due to this, the game was not dubbed into English, but instead retained its Japanese voice track while text was localized. An aspect Ignition worked hard with was to make sure the localization was of good quality by working closely with their chosen localization partners. This was due to backlash received by fans and critics over the 'lackluster' localization of, which had been beyond their control during development. The game was published in Europe by alongside other Marvelous products including and. The English translation was carried over from the North American version, although the English language version underwent regional adjustment, and some minor faults were corrected.

The game was also translated into, and, which made using the original translation more practical than creating a new one. Originally scheduled for November 2009, it was first shifted into 2010, then moved back into 2009. The game released in Europe on November 6 of that year. Upon release in the United Kingdom, most retailers did not stock it: this was put down to a general attitude that it would not sell like prevalent franchises or games from mainstream genres.

The game released in Australia on December 3, 2009. Muramasa Rebirth Muramasa Rebirth, released in Japan under its original title of Oboro Muramasa, is a port of Muramasa developed by Vanillaware for the. According to its development team, the Vita was chosen as the port's platform over the more commercially successful Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 due to the Vita's -based screen, which they felt better portray the game's palette. While content was cut from the original version, the team decided against going back and restoring it, instead creating new additional content. The controls were also adjusted to suit the new platform.

Muramasa Rebirth was published in Japan by on March 28, 2013. The game's Western release was handled by, which also created a new localization. Compared to the original version, which was described as a direct translation, Aksys Games' version was more 'flavorful' and more faithful to the original text.

It released in North America on June 25. It was released in Europe and Australia through on October 16. In addition to the main game, four self-contained stories were released as (DLC) under the title Genroku Legends ( 元禄怪奇譚, Genroku Kaikitan), featuring new characters within the Muramasa universe. For the new characters, swords are replaced by other weapons such as clubs and shurikens, but they otherwise play in the same way as Momohime and Kisuke. New music was created for the title under Sakimoto's supervision: the four episodes were scored by Kudo, Chiba, Kaneda and Iwata respectively.

The Vanillaware-developed DLC launched in both Japan and the West between November 2013 and November 2014: the final DLC's Japanese release was delayed by over two months behind the Western release. A special edition of Muramasa Rebirth exclusive to Japan contained all four DLC episodes alongside the original content. Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score 7.5/10 7/10 8/10 N/A N/A 7/10 32/40 34/40 7/10 7.75/10 N/A N/A B+ N/A 7.5/10 N/A 8.3/10 8/10 8.9/10 RPGamer 4/5 4/5 RPGFan 85% 86% Aggregate score 78/100 81/100 The Demon Blade received generally positive reviews, garnering a score of 81/100 on based on 58 critic reviews. In its review, praised the art style, and called the battle system 'absorbing'. Their main complaints were the lack of variety between characters and the story having no proper climax.

's Conrad Zimmerman called it 'a very solid title', saying that while flawed in its story delivery and instances of repetition, its visuals were 'absolutely beautiful' and it proved fun to play. 's Mark Bozon was highly positive about the graphics and sound, but thought the backtracking might put some people off and said the story 'may go over people’s heads'.

Writer Nick Tan enjoyed the game greatly, but admitted that its lack of depth reduced the score he could give it as a reviewer. Joe Juba, writing for, found The Demon Blade 'stunning' despite some missteps in its pacing and depth. 's Tom McShea praised the visuals, boss battles and collectable swords, but found few other activities outside combat, which itself lacked depth. 's Andy Burt called the visuals 'gorgeous' and praised the combat and multiple storylines, but found its linearity and occasions where combat got 'bogged down' hampered the experience. Praised its combat and visuals, calling it 'one of the better action titles on the Wii'. Keza MacDonald, writing for, noted that 'like many beautiful thingsMuramasa: The Demon Blade is a little lacking in substance', saying that its lack of depth undermined other aspects.

Michael Cunningham of RPGamer called it 'a great game' to see and play despite its plain story. RPGFan's Dennis Rubinshteyn shared several points in common with reviewers about the story and repetition, while again praising the graphics and sound design. Rebirth also had a positive reception, with Metacritic giving it a score of 78/100 based on 26 critic reviews. In its review, Famitsu praised it for being a good remake, although one reviewer was disappointed at the lack of new content.

Chris Carter of Destructoid said that people who had already played the original version would not find much new content, while newcomers would likely be enchanted by it. Juba, reviewing Rebirth for Game Informer, said that the game was 'exactly what developer Vanillaware intended it to be: a better-looking version of the 2009 release', while noting that this had no fixed the game's original faults as noted by him. IGN's Colin Moriarty called Rebirth a 'faithful port', praising the improved localization and generally enjoying playing despite backtracking hampering the experience. Adrian den Ouden of RPGamer also praised the localization and shared points of praise and criticism with the previous reviewer. Stephen Meyerink of RPGFan, who had not played the Wii original, called Rebirth 'a gorgeous, action-packed, fairly lengthy adventure that looks, sounds, and plays better than ever'.

Chris Holzworth of was impressed by the visuals and indifferent about the story, and recommended playing it on a higher difficulty setting. Sales On its debut in Japan, The Demon Blade reached #2 in game sales charts, coming in behind Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes with 29,000 units sold. Sales of the title were higher than anticipated, resulting in several stores in Japan being sold out within two weeks of its release. The game had sold 47,000 units by November 2009. In North America, reported that the game had sold 35,000 units during its first month of release.

In a feature on notable video games in 2009, stated that The Demon Blade sold 'extremely well', besting established Western franchise releases such as. Ignition Entertainment, the game's North American publisher, confirmed that the September sales for The Demon Blade had fallen within the NPD Group's estimates, and had met their sales expectations. In a 2010 interview, publisher Marvelous Entertainment stated that, despite positive reception from both critics and players, Muramasa: The Demon Blade had suffered from low sales in Japan, North America and Europe. This was put down to it being a non-traditional game and the falling relevance of the Wii hardware. In its first week of release, Rebirth debuted at #5, selling 45,660 physical units.

Within the first month following its release in Japan, the game topped 100,000 shipments, with at least 67,800 physical retail sales, and the remainder as digital copies distributed on the PlayStation Network. Muramasa Rebirth ranked as the seventh most downloaded digital Vita game on the Japanese PlayStation Network in 2013. In both North America and Europe, the game ranked high on PSN download charts: it ranked as the fifth best-selling Vita title in North America, while in Europe it debuted at #5 before climbing to #4 by December 2013.

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