With Steam Greenlight slowly opening the flood gates for Japanese gaming to enter Valve’s PC marketplace, a few notable titles have trickled in such as Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, a high-speed arena-based slash’em up developed by Zenith Blue which debuted at last summer’s Comiket, featuring samurai schoolgirls wielding Japanese steel to cut down opponents in a blaze of panchira glory.
The video:
Gameplay or “High Speed Katana Action” consists of slicing and dicing up waves of opposing robots in a similar fashion to Senran Kagura and the OneeChanbara games, with rewards earned through skill point allocation to unlock new skills, characters, and costumes.
The game is available now on Playism with a playable demo for those interested in trying it out, and on Steam where pricing and availability may vary by region.
Looks decent enough, but would probably benefit from more aggressive enemy AI, Ninja Gaiden (1) style. None of this slowly pacing around virtually attacking in turns nonsense 95% of slash-em-up games do.
Schoolgirls with katanas is a winning combination. How can they ever lose?
Is it just me or are most things (including life its self) s♥♥t to sankaku users, anyways? The stuff that isn’t could possibly be counted on one hand and most likely includes something like “lolis”.
“oh ha oh ha ha ha haaaaaaaaa kurayaa!!!!!!!”
i wouldn’t mind this if the gameplay doesn’t seem as repetitive as the sounds in the game.
first rule of a modern hack and slash game………………………… more weapons.
i am sure this is going to be cheap but seriously?
and the character models aren’t even worth the money for spanking to for a few minutes.
and before you screem “you haven’t played it yet”, keep in mind this is 1:50 minute long and it is the same move all over and with or two cutscenes which also seems to not be promessing.
Overgrowth is a game for you
“With Steam Greenlight slowly opening the flood gates for Japanese gaming to enter Valve’s PC marketplace”
Slowly? That’s an understatement, a turtle moves faster than the pace that JRPGS are entering the PC market. I’m very disappointed at the progress.
well first of all, there needs to be jrpgs on the market to begin with before they can localize anything. theres fucking nothing on the platform in this genre