Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked
Samurai Champloo steps out of the hack-and-slash action genre and offers a new way to swing a finely-honed samurai blade. Set in Japan with hip hop feel from the hit TV series by the same name, this title…
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, released 23 February 2006 on PlayStation 2.
What Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked is
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and released in 2006. It was published by NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Samurai Champloo steps out of the hack-and-slash action genre and offers a new way to swing a finely-honed samurai blade. Set in Japan with hip hop feel from the hit TV series by the same name, this title allows gamers to breathe life to a "lost episode" as one of three playable characters - Mugen, a reckless samurai with break-dancing fighting style, calculated Jin who abides by the decorum of Bushido, and a mysterious new character exclusive to the video game. Stranded in northern land of Ezo (current day Hokkaido) in search of the samurai who smells of sunflowers, the player must face foreign mercenaries, master swordsmen, diabolical assassins, mythical beasts, and gangster monkeys. The…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked launched on 23 February 2006, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.
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