Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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Stunning graphics seeped in buckets of blood and gore.
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Samurai: Way of the Warrior
Is It Any Good?
SAMURAI: WAY OF THE WARRIOR is without doubt, a great game. Especially on the iPad (Samurai: Way of the Warrior HD), where the high-definition graphics are amazing, the controls are smooth and natural-feeling, and the comic book story sequences are in themselves pretty awesome. But the blood! It would be hard to find a game with more spashes of red. The intensity of the violence and gore -- torsos cleaved in half, darkening pools of blood that remain on the ground long after the death of the villain who bled them -- actually feels like it diminishes a bit of the game's quality. There's such beautiful imagery in this game that bathing it all in blood feels like a disservice to the artist. Still, if you can get past the extreme violence and bloodshed, Samurai is, as stated above, a great game.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
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- Release date : July 10, 2010
- Genre : Action Games
- Publisher : MADFINGER Games
- Version : 1.01
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.2 or later
- Last updated : June 19, 2019
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