Action-platformer Bushiden wants you to feel like a futuristic ninja jumping right into the thick of combat, focusing on giving you crowd-clearing attacks so you can fight aggressively.
Gaoh, an evil you thought was eliminated, isn’t waiting some hundred years to come back. After a lousy six years, he’s back with a cybernetic army, stealing your sister and causing trouble about town. As Reylee, last member of the Iga-Ryu Clan, you’ve got to use your sword skills (and an array of new powers that are all just lying around the countryside), you need to save your sister and beat Gaoh once more (hopefully for at least a decade this time).
With so many robot villains kicking around, Bushiden wants you to feel free to just hop in the mix and start cutting baddies up. To do this, the game offers useful finishers after a typical three-hit combo, lashing out in front, above, or behind along with finishing the current enemy so that you can stay safe from multiple foes. You can also quickly huck a shuriken behind you to slow oncoming foes, or cancel into a roll at any time when things get too heated. Barring those, feel free to lash out with fiery Chi attacks to keep the robots off your case.
Bushiden looks to take players to some delightfully-ruined locales filled with machines and lost cities. There are many secrets to find within these areas as players gain new mobility and combat powers from defeated bosses, many of which add neat new battle options as well. Players can feel free to wander stages for secrets (or return to old levels for new goodies), or they can just play the game as a straightforward action game with no backtracking.
Whether you’re an intrepid ninja explorer or a more focused root-exterminating ninja, Bushiden looks to have you covered as it comes together for Windows, Nintendo Switch, and PS4.
Bushiden is currently in development and is seeking funding through Kickstarter.
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