videogames.com has a great review of the DC version of LB2!!

www.videogames.com
scroll down in the main page to find it.i can't believe they gave it a good rating of 8.1!!! And considering how old this game looks,its unbelievable how the mainstream site gave it a good score. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

Very cool! That is a cool review, definitly cool to see such a positive review.

Oh yeah? <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> Well ign gave the import version a 8.9 and the domestic release a 8.7. Check out the reviews at:
http://dreamcast.ign.com/review_lists/l.html

Oh and in the Domestic review, the reviewer Anthony Chau raves on and on about SNK... mentioning Samauri Shodown, Garou: MOTW, and giving general praise. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

-Nick

Another thing which i find strange is that not very long ago,they had a review of kof 2000 and they gave the graphics a 5/10 rating and kof 2000 looks way better than LB2.In LB2,the gave the graphics a 7/10!!!

strange <IMG SRC="smilies/eek.gif" border="0">

yo gans why dont you use www.gamespot.com as opposed to www.videogames.com ?

Well I'd give Last Blade 2 a 9 on the import DC, and a 2 on the shitty U.S. release by Agetec. Stupid company butchered the game when they hacked out the red blood, fatalities, and alternate endings for at least one character. I've tried to determine if Agetec built in a code to disable the stupid censorship, but so far no luck (I called them on the phone, emailed them, and posted in their forums). My three copies go back to Agetec this week, and I'd suggest that anyone else opposed to this kind of ridiculous censorship should return their copies as well. <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

It's ALWAYS been that way in America, even without Agetec... play Metal Slug on a US Neo Geo Home Cart system, and the blood looks like water. It's always been censored. In the PSX version of Samurai SHodown Warrior's Rage, the import has red blood, whereas the US release (done by SNK of America, NOT Agetec) has white blood.

Don't blame Agetec for something SNK did before them, about the blood thing anyway. As for the alternate ending... you sure you did everything right? If you did, then that's just plain stupid to completely take out something significant like that.

But keep in mind... if Agetec doesn't think the US market is even halfway profitable when it comes to imorting SNK games on DC, PSX, or whatever, a lot of people who aren't fortuneate enough to own a Neo Geo Home Cart System or MVS will have a hard time playing great SNK games in any form, butchered or otherwise.

Fortunately I have the import LB2 game, so I won't need the raped U.S. version. We are now in the year 2001, not 1991. Censorship of a game like LB2 to keep its "teen" rating won't garner more sales from 8-year-olds, but it WILL lose sales from adults.

I mean, has anyone played Sword of the Berserk, or RE: CV, or Illbleed, or (shudder) MK4 for the U.S. DC? They ALL have LIBERAL amounts of blood, so why do we have to have this kind of BULLSHIT TODAY?!?

Its stupid, and frankly, Agetec can keep the lame port, and forget about any future titles. I'll just import them all. Screw them, its not as if I don't already have the Neo home cart, import DC, and MVS version as well. I bought the U.S. one to encourage future U.S. releases (and English translations) but they can keep the U.S. raped port in their storage rooms, or better yet drop it in the trash, where it belongs. <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

It is BS they censored it, the game has a cult following anyhow, ever heard of a kid who killed someone because they saw Kyo fight in kof?, nah.
Very few even know who Kyo is, sad truth.