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A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.
The Spirit of the Samurai is a gore, action-adventure and 2d game
developed by Digital Mind Games
and published by Kwalee.
Released on December 12th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian and Korean.
It has received 300 reviews of which 199 were positive and 101 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 13.99€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD FX-6300 | Intel i5 4440
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 730 | AMD Radeon R7 240 | Intel HD Graphics 630
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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Beautiful and very fun ! not sure why this game is rated mixed .its very good and had me hooked two seconds in. Combat is challenging and versatile ,graphics and soundtrack are very high quality and immersive. story is also very good this is a 10/10 for me!
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I've never been more torn on how I wanted to review a game, and ultimately decided to give Spirit of the Samurai a positive review but need to definitely mention a handful of shortcomings that I definitely need to mention. Spirit of the Samurai is a BEAUTIFUL game, it's seriously a master class in art style, presentation, story telling, pacing, sound and voice acting. I've never played a game before where I felt like it could have genuinely been a movie as easily as it had been made into a game. The stop-motion claymation in Spirit of the Samurai is just unbelievable. Each enemy type is unique and interesting, bosses are original and fit well with where they are presented in the story and there is one boss in particular that made me say "ok now THAT is awesome!". I could easily continue to write on the positive points, but for the sake of moving the review along I'm going to move onto my next point which I've seen a number of people complain about, the controls. Personally, I loved the control scheme for Spirit of the Samurai. I've you've ever played a twin-stick shooter, or any game with a twin-stick scheme, you can easily learn the control scheme for this game. I think most people are used to a dedicated attach button mapped to one of your four face buttons, and while there IS an attack mapped to one of the four face buttons, the real magic comes from being able to chain together unlocked attacks and mapping them to the right stick which you press in the direction that you'd like to attack. Personally I loved this control scheme, I can certainly understand how some may not care for it, just keep in mind this is what you'll be playing with. I can also tell everyone that performance on the Steam Deck is great for the most part! There are a couple of very specific areas where there are frame drops or things chug a little bit, but it's more than alright to be honest. The areas that had the biggest issues with this had a lot of environmental effects going on, I am hoping that this is something that the devs can address. I'm curious to see if these frame drops are resolved in the VCS version. Long story short though, very playable. Now, I do have to be honest. Some areas seriously overtuned and need to be adjusted. In particular, the Graveyard area is so overtuned that it was enough to make me consider just not finishing the game. Enemies were firing projectiles from off-screen which I thought had been patched, I am hoping maybe they take another look at this. The gauntlet of enemies that you have to go thru at one specific point honestly was just horrible, there is "hard but fair" and then there is "broken hard", I feel like this area was "broken hard". Additionally there is a specific area where you need to do some major wall scaling playing as your cat companion and there is no tutorial on how to do this. I spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to jump foothold to foothold and even then it wasn't consistently working. A tutorial being added for this specific section and a look at the consistency of how often climbing works/fails would be a major help. Additionally, controls can feel quite stiff at times and it would be of major value if the devs could add any level of speed and fluidity to them, it would make a world of difference. In closing, the ending of the game was just pure cinema and I can honestly say that I truly hope that this become an ongoing franchise of games. Spirit of the Samurai is something special made by devs who truly love their craft. The tag Metroidvania is innacurate for Spirit, I think it would be more fair to classify it as an action platformer with a few Metroivania-like elements mixed in. In all honesty, even with the faults, I'd give this game a 9 out of 10, and would say it's a 10 out of 10 should the shortcomings I mentioned be addressed.
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I genuinely can't fathom where these negative reviews are coming from, and what people expected from this. I'd give this game ten thumbs up if I could - here's why: [*]The game runs on Unity. I absolutely hate it as a fucking engine, because it's severely limited and ugly - but The Spirit of the Samurai looks like it's running on Godot or something more sophisticated, that's how great the graphics are. [*]Stop-motion style animation. Fucking google how hard that is to achieve, and then think how hard it is to make that look good. [*]Sekiro-like combos. Unlock new moves with attributes or by simply finding them, and chain them together as you wish. [*]Great, immersive story - with authentic Japanese lore, emotional voice-acting and great characters. So, go into this with expectations tempered. It's not an Assassin's Creed game (thinking of their side-scroller here), and this genre isn't that popular to begin with. What do you think will happen if a studio with a distinct vision like DMG doesn't achieve sales to get their investment back? We'll see a whole new possible genre die out. It's 20 euros on full price. 16 if you get it with the offer until December 26th. Ask yourself, when was the last time you got a AAA-quality side-scroller for such a low price? This game is worth it's full price, I'd say it's even worth an extra 20% markup for some more profit for the devs. Support this game, this vision - and we might just see this game bloom into a series, with serious improvements over time.
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This game is gorgeous, it's stop motion animation is smooth and well crafted. Plot-wise it's pretty short and hardly unique at a good 6 to 8 hours. Combat and game-play is enjoyable and well polished but hardly innovative; think of it as a PrinceOfPersia/Metroidvania-Souls game. Most frustrating aspect however is the camera; too much of the fight is blocked by foreground. The platforming is good (has bugs though) and mixes things up with different characters but like most 2D-platformers it has very annoying sections with checkpoints far apart. I recommend it for its price and to kill a few hours.
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This game hit my heart. Very stylish and atmospheric game. Nice combat. I will talk about story later. But I faced with one big issue for me: Problem with 3840x2140 resolution. Only this resolution runs with black bars from all sides during cutscenes and gameplay. Other resolutions play fine.
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The Spirit of the Samurai is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
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The Spirit of the Samurai received 199 positive votes out of a total of 300 achieving a rating of 6.34.
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The Spirit of the Samurai was developed by Digital Mind Games and published by Kwalee.
The Spirit of the Samurai is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Spirit of the Samurai is not playable on MacOS.
The Spirit of the Samurai is not playable on Linux.
The Spirit of the Samurai is a single-player game.
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The Spirit of the Samurai does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Spirit of the Samurai does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Digital Mind Games
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Kwalee
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