Black & White Bushido (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Black & White Bushido

Things are rarely ever black and white, but that’s not the case in Black & White Bushido. With an original soundtrack and gorgeous, stylistic 2D visuals, you’re either a light or shadow samurai facing down…

63 2 October 2015

What Black & White Bushido is

Black & White Bushido was released in 2015. It was published by Good Catch Ltd. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Things are rarely ever black and white, but that’s not the case in Black & White Bushido. With an original soundtrack and gorgeous, stylistic 2D visuals, you’re either a light or shadow samurai facing down your opponents in a combat arena. The black and white style makes each battlefield a dangerous place, filled with hiding spots for four players to fight and hide in. It’s a simple concept boiled down to an infinitely replayable set of team death match or Capture the Flag sessions. Black & White Bushido is an arena fighting game between light and shadow samurai.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, party and stealth. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Black & White Bushido holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Black & White Bushido launched on 2 October 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone and Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series.

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