Game Reviews

To suggest that Sengoku Basara is a Dynasty Warriors clone would be unfair, inaccurate and just plain wrong. It’s clearly a Samurai Warriors clone.

Seriously, it even has most of the same characters. This is because they’re loosely based on the same real-life historical figures but still, some of the character designs seem to be sailing dangerously close to Samurai Warriors’ copyright wind. It seems to be, in many ways, more of a spoof than a clone though. It takes what is already a pretty silly template and makes it notably sillier.

Our character of choice, Magoichi Saika – same name as in Samurai Warriors, different gender – is armed not just with a single musket, but with several pistols, a pump-action shotgun, hand grenades, two machine guns and a multi-shot bazooka. You can tell this game shares a producer with Devil May Cry 4.
This silliness isn’t just for the sake of poking fun though, it does make Sengoku Basara a more fun and more varied game than most of the Koei titles it apes.

The combat is still pretty repetitive, but in a slightly less button-bashy, more thoughtful way. Plus, each character does have a genuinely different gameplay style, so you get twelve that are all worth trying out rather than over a hundred that are all essentially the same.The downside, when compared to the Warriors games,