12/10/2023 0 Comments Samurai kami![]() ![]() The player’s stats are reset at the end of each run, but as long as they make it out of Jikai alive via one of the exits that spawns after a boss battle, they get to keep whatever equipment and money they have, and anything stored back in Dojima’s shop is permanently safe. The first few levels had me battling skeletons in caves, but then Jikai expands to woodland areas with increasingly-fanciful opponents like golems and oni. There’s plenty of cash to be found, but there are also a number of weapons and materials for upgrading. (The game gives us three different dialogue options for this exchange, all of which are variations on “I’ll save your daughter as long as I can bang her afterward.”)įortunately for our horny samurai, a portal in the village opens up to a dungeon called Jikai where he can descend through several dozen procedurally-generated floors and loot to his heart’s content. Our “hero,” a wandering ronin, happens upon the scene and offers to help raise the money… but only if he can marry the girl as a reward. Dojima is deep in debt and the collectors kidnap his daughter and hold her as collateral until he’s paid it off. Katana Kami – which is only tenuously connected to the Way of the Samurai series – begins with a blacksmith named Dojima being harassed by some local thugs. ![]() When I entered this tunnel, it was a pleasant walk for a little while, but soon there was no light in either direction and I kind of hoped a train would come and run me over. ![]() Before long I was grinding away, doing the same thing over and over again with no assurance that there was even an endpoint. Unfortunately, developer Acquire boldly disregards the rule that once I’ve proven I can overcome an obstacle, it’s time for me to move on to the next obstacle. It’s not that it’s particularly painful to play on a moment-to-moment basis –as an isometric hack-and-slash dungeon crawler that shares some structural parallels to the original Diablo (in that it’s narrowly focused on one town and one dungeon) the combat is passingly satisfying, there’s loot aplenty, and the enemy variety is solid for the opening stretch of the campaign. I’ve been playing Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story for the last two weeks, but it feels like it’s been two years. WTF How are skeletons bleeding this much?! HIGH Chaining counterattacks between multiple enemies. ![]()
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