A few weeks back I was playing around with Sega’s Genpei Taisen Emaki on the iPad. It was lots of fun, so I was delighted to see recently that the company had also come out with an English version, aptly named Samurai Bloodshow.
The game is a sort of Plants vs Zombies style tower defense game, although the art and the game play are far different. The battle field looks like an ancient Japanese scroll, which actually unrolls as you pan to the right.
When you meet enemy samurai, the ensuing fight is loads of fun with one or the other destined to die in a Tarantino-like shower of blood. But because the graphics don’t aim to be realistic, it doesn’t come across as overly gory — at least it didn’t to me.
If you’d like to see how it looks, you can check out my video demo of one of the early rounds. Although judging from Sega’s trailer, the later rounds look like they’re going to get crazy!
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