Review: Katana Kami: A Way of the Samurai Story (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S.

Through Shinto-based storytelling and mythology there is a fun concept in Japan; Hyakki Yagyo, which translates as "The Night Parade of 100 Demons". That’s only a rough translation, since the “parade” is made up of yokai, which are not really demons, but rather spirit creatures. Nonetheless that's how we translate it, and putting that aside, Hyakki Yagyo has captured the imagination of the Japanese for eons, and you only need to look at one of the elaborate scrolls, where an artist has, over metres of paper, carefully depicted their vision of all 100 creatures, to understand why. Aesthetically and culturally the “parade” is fascinating. Acquire’s newest release, Katana Kami, is the perfect representation of that concept in a video game.

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