“An admirable effort to create as authentic an homage as possible.”
INFO
FORMAT PS5 (reviewed), PS4
PRICE £15.99
ETA Out now
PUB Devolver Digital
DEV Leonard Menchiari, Wild Flying Hog
PLAYERS 1
LENGTH 5-6 hrs
ACCESSIBILITY Difficulty options; bloom and grain filters on/off; subtitles
Wait, a samurai game inspired by the black-and-white samurai films of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa except with Tarantino-esque levels of ultraviolence? Haven’t we had one of those already? You may be thinking of Ghost Of Tsushima, which includes a ‘Kurosawa mode’ that allows you to play Sucker Punch’s open-world epic in monochrome with grainy film filters and Japanese audio.
But whereas that game included it as