Sakura Samurai Review

he katana holds a special place in all kinds of media. In film and videogames, the katana is pretty much unstoppable. It can cut through bullets, other people’s swords, tanks – no material is a match for the samurai sword.

But this isn’t actually how the katana works. In real life, the katana is a fragile blade. It can break if used too often, or incorrectly. And when used in the samurai era, katanas were quickly pulled from their scabbards in an attempt to end a fight as quickly as it began.

All this is to say that, for the most part, there are very few games that have created a realistic feeling of being a katana-wielding samurai of ancient Japan.

This is what I believed until I played Sakura Samurai, a game that emulates what being a samurai of Japan would be like. And for that reason, I found it to be an incredibly enjoyable game.