Hanako: Honor & Blade is in early access, and although we haven't reviewed it yet, I gotta give em credit for giving the people what they want; namely, ninjas and samurais. There must be a million games and movies that could have been made much, much better by this simple addition. Figure it out people. When it doubt, the answer is probably ninjas.
In Hanako: Honor & Blade, you'll journey across feudal Japan, killing your way through a "symbolic campaign representing a personal trial of life and death of a lost loved one." The game has multiple levels and a plethora of game modes that you can brawl through with up to 24 players online. Choose between the Kenshi (Swordsman), Naginatashi (Pikeman), or Ninja (Assassin), all of whom have their own style of fighting, movement and weaponry, in addition to different attacks, abilities and combos. The fighting system features multiple fighting stances, defensive techniques (some of which incorporate grappling hooks, which is awesome) and acrobatic combos, multi-enemy sweeps and more.
"Since our first early access release, focused completely on melee - we wanted to bring the Samurai Archer to the game and add new features we've been waiting to develop for years. There have been melee games with Samurai, but I'm confident that focusing on Samurai and Ninja offers a fast-paced engaging game experience at a quality level typically seen in AAA games. We hope to keep improving and adding things outside of matches to keep working towards full 1.0 release." says Matt Canei, Lead Developer at +Mpact
Give the trailer below a watch to see how the action will play out, and check out the title now on Steam.
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