Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms

Continue your journey to Edo in Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms, where you play as the heroine Chizuru Yukimura. Romance the famous warriors of the Shinsengumi as you enter a fantasy drama of battles and self-discovery…

90 16 June 2016 ESRB M

What Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms is

Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms is an adventure game developed by Design Factory and released in 2016. It was published by Idea Factory. It is available on PlayStation Vita and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

This story is about a girl who allies with the warriors of the Shinsengumi, who are struggling to uphold their faith in an era of rapid social change in Japan, and those fate of those who sought to resist that change...

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are drama, historical and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms launched on 16 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine.

Official trailer