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KATANA KAMI, the Way of the Samurai spin-off in which you play as a warmonger blacsmith is getting day and date release (Feb. 20, PS4/Steam/Switch)

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SOURCE: https://www.gematsu.com/2020/02/katana-kami-a-way-of-the-samurai-story-coming-west-on-february-20
SOURCE 2: https://blog.us.playstation.com/202...tory-hits-ps4-february-20-free-dlc-to-follow/

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You play as a Samurai who agrees to help the blacksmith who has had his daughter taken away as collateral for defaulting on his debt. In order to repay your debt faster, you have the possibility to stroke conflicts between the three factions in order to drive up commerce. You can literally decide to play as a capitalist overlord who creates an all-out war for his profit. This is some Akira Kurosawa shit.
The rest of the game seems to play like Recettear, you get materials at night, you forge during the day. It has Way of the Samurai gameplay which means it has a lot of depth and pushes you to be very precise rather than spamming attacks, the same great music by Asakura (who worked on Sekiro) and it seems a lot of the freedom from the main series is being offered, as you still have the option to apologize at every moment (you grovel in apology, sometimes it can help you like if you weren't able to meet the debt repayment deadline and ask for an extension).

The blog post from playstation confirms there is online play for the dungeons

Anyway, it seems great. I really hope it delivers.
 
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Wow. Never heard of this before but it sounds really interesting. As a fan of wots I'm gonna have to check it out.
 
FallenGrace

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Is that a top down view? Weird camera angle. The description sounds great but the footage didn't do much for me.
 
Seraphis Cain

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Excellent, was hoping for this to come over. Will buy day-one pending price and overall impressions (just want to make sure it's not a disaster or anything).

Fake edit: Hm, retail price in Japan seems to be 3,890 yen. Wonder if that'll translate to $39.99 here or if it'll be cheaper?
 
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Where did this come from? Looks and sounds pretty cool, may pick this up. I am glad the Way of the Samurai franchise is still around.
 

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Seraphis Cain said:
Excellent, was hoping for this to come over. Will buy day-one pending price and overall impressions (just want to make sure it's not a disaster or anything).

Fake edit: Hm, retail price in Japan seems to be 3,890 yen. Wonder if that'll translate to $39.99 here or if it'll be cheaper?
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It's 29,99$, see the article on Gematsu.
 
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It's 29,99$, see the article on Gematsu.
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Oh damn, I read the Gematsu article but I must've skipped over that part. Alright, $30 is definitely workable as long as the game is decent. Tentatively excited!

EDIT: Apparently Steam and Switch get a 10% launch discount, according to the launch trailer's description. Wonder if PS4 doesn't get one at all, or if it'll have a PS+ discount and that's why they didn't mention it?
 
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Semi-related but is there any licensing or rights issues standing in the way of bringing WoTS 1 and 2 to modern platforms?
 
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Kind of wish that trailer focused on the features mentioned in OP's description because just combat footage isn't doing it for me.
 
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I hope this runs well on Switch. Doesn't look like it should have any problems.

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Semi-related but is there any licensing or rights issues standing in the way of bringing WoTS 1 and 2 to modern platforms?
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Well the old games were published by Spike who are Spike Chunsoft now so that shouldn't be a problem. Might be a problem publishing them in the west though since they were all done by different companies. Unless Spike Chunsoft retains all the rights to the English scripts.
 
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Wow, I didn't expect them to announce an English release just one week before the game comes out. it got announced at TGS and since that I'm very much looking forward to it. I love the Way of the Samurai series and I'm pumped to find out how this new game or "spin-off" (for the lack of a better term I guess?) turns out.
 

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Velezcora said:
I hope this runs well on Switch. Doesn't look like it should have any problems.



Well the old games were published by Spike who are Spike Chunsoft now so that shouldn't be a problem. Might be a problem publishing them in the west though since they were all done by different companies. Unless Spike Chunsoft retains all the rights to the English scripts.
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Way of the Samurai 2 was actually published by Capcom in the US iirc.
 
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By the way, in Japan the game has a CERO Z rating, the highest possible age rating. I wonder why. Perhaps you can decapitate enemies and cut off limbs? On the other hand, as far as I know, even with a CERO Z rating you cannot show decapitation in videogames in Japan. Perhaps it's because of some of the story details, like the main protagonist pretty much blackmailing the smithy to agree rescuing his daughter?

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Velezcora said:
I hope this runs well on Switch. Doesn't look like it should have any problems.



Well the old games were published by Spike who are Spike Chunsoft now so that shouldn't be a problem. Might be a problem publishing them in the west though since they were all done by different companies. Unless Spike Chunsoft retains all the rights to the English scripts.
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SnazzyNaz said:
Semi-related but is there any licensing or rights issues standing in the way of bringing WoTS 1 and 2 to modern platforms?
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The PC versions of 3 and 4 are available on gog.com, so I don't see why there would be an issue.
 
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Only a week away? What an awesome surprise! I thought we'd have to wait quite a while longer before this saw a stateside release.

Day 1 purchase for me. This looks like an awesome WotS spin-off.
 
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Hold the phone, I know that guy in the middle.

If I remember right that's Mr. Beniya from Way of the Samurai 2.

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''Definitely a blade for weirdos.''

Ah yes, Kyojiro's sword from Way of the Samurai 2. :)
 
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Seraphis Cain said:
Excellent, was hoping for this to come over. Will buy day-one pending price and overall impressions (just want to make sure it's not a disaster or anything).

Fake edit: Hm, retail price in Japan seems to be 3,890 yen. Wonder if that'll translate to $39.99 here or if it'll be cheaper?
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$29.99 with launch week 10% discount for Switch/PC.
 
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Its not a new WotS but hopefully it can scratch that itch while we wait for WotS 5 which is coming

never because Spike-Chunsoft hates it
 
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Good. Unexpected that they would bring it over so quickly, though I am not complaining.

I know it's not part of the main series, but I hope there's a fair amount of room for just messing around and doing silly stuff.
 
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So the question isnt whether I buy it, its if I'm buying it on 2 platforms or not. I'll support this series till my grave.
 
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So Ukiyo no Shishi/Roushi are super dead, huh? They definitely looked more interesting that this thing.
 
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I love the Way of the Samurai games so I'll definitely check this one out. Can you play as a female character in this one?
 
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I never even heard of this game/series, but I love the Way of the Samurai games, and for $30, I'm definitely sold
 
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Unclear if this has branching story lines of a WotS game, but if it does I'm way in.
 
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Unclear if this has branching story lines of a WotS game, but if it does I'm way in.
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well we do know it has 3 factions(? i think or at the least three groups) which are the three from the first game. Hell the main protag from the original is helping the towns people.
 
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A new Way of the Samurai? Wow.

What happened to that SpikeChunsoft game that marketed itself as not being WotS? It came out for Vita and PS3 as two different games, iirc. Always wanted to play that.
 
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