Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword
Leave button mashing behind. Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is about precision swordplay, battlefield finesse, and martial-arts style. As the heroic title character, you’ll travel a world rife with…
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Grounding Inc, released 16 November 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Grounding Inc and released in 2011. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Leave button mashing behind. Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is about precision swordplay, battlefield finesse, and martial-arts style. As the heroic title character, you’ll travel a world rife with cherry-blossom beauty—and deadly danger—to rescue the legendary Princess Cherry Blossom. Her kidnapper has set dozens of blade-wielding henchmen in your path, and you’ll have to exercise your best battle senses to defeat them and save her. Learn to predict your foes’ moves, deftly dodge their attacks, and create opportunities for devastating counterattacks. Start with the Sakura Sword, a little health, and some basic training from your water-spirit guide. Make your way from battleground to…
How it plays
Its themes are action.
How it was received
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 38% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword launched on 16 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition and Assassin's Creed Revelations. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition, Assassin's Creed Revelations.
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