How often you use Blade Mode?
A lot. A whole lot. The game is basically designed around parrying and Blade Mode. Parry to avoid taking damage and get a free counterattack if you nail it, Blade mode to Zandatsu the enemy for a full health/energy recharge.
You pretty much do this for well over half the enemies you meet in the game. So every 5 minutes? No. Try every 10-15 seconds in a big brawl.
Yep it seems i can't play on laptop.Thanks for the answer.
It seems this is what i'm going to try.I have a desktop which have Q9300 and 4850 at home (I live at dorm now).I wonder it could work like that.So theoretically speaking users with higher end DX9/10 cards for their time (like the GTX 280/285 and ATI Radeon 4850/4870/4890) could potentially still run this. I suspect the both min and rec specs are taking into account locked 60 FPS performance all the time, and weaker machines would be capable of running this with FPS dips of course/and or with lower rendering resolutions/performance options , just like on the consoles.
Still looking forward to buying this game and trying it out on both my desktop and much weaker laptop lol.