Sakura Wars
The Imperial Combat Revue takes the stage as Tokyo’s defense force against a demon threat in this extravagant adventure. Soldiers in wartime, but theater performers in peacetime, the Revue’s Flower Division is…
Sakura Wars is an adventure developed by Sega CS2 R&D, released 12 December 2019 on PlayStation 4.
What Sakura Wars is
Sakura Wars is an adventure game developed by Sega CS2 R&D and released in 2019. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Hedgehog Engine 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The stage is set in a steampunk version of 1940s Imperial Tokyo. Only a short while ago, a cataclysmic event destroyed the Imperial Combat Revue of Tokyo, the capital’s global defense force stationed at the Imperial Theater. Now home to the Flower Division, an inept rookie squad who also strives to impart hope on the citizenry with their theatrical talents, the theater has fallen on hard times and risks closure. It’s up to Seijuro Kamiyama as the captain of the new Tokyo revue to lead his squad and restore the Imperial Combat Revue and the theater back to their former glory! With the help of the revue's five colorful performers, he must rise to the challenge of competing in the Combat Revue…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sakura Wars series
Sakura Wars is the 28th of 30 entries we hold in the Sakura Wars series. It arrived 4 years after Project X Zone 2. The next entry was Sakura Wars: Limited Edition in 2019. Its critic score of 77 is 3 points above the series average of 74. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Sakura Wars holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sakura Wars launched on 12 December 2019, within three weeks of Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards and Arise: A Simple Story. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Shovel Knight: King of Cards, Arise: A Simple Story.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sakura Wars yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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