![]() ![]() The system is simple, and ensures you never stop moving, shooting, slicing and quipping. You can upgrade your blade to cause enemies to drop ammo when you slice them to death, or your Chi Blast to generate health pick ups. The result is a frantic, circle-strafing, grapple-swinging, demon-squibbing adventure that plays like a Saturday morning cartoon version of Doom Eternal. Early on you’ll receive a grappling hook, which becomes the source of a few self-referential jokes, and Wang can wall run now in addition to double-jumping and dashing. Wang himself can also be upgraded, to take and dish out more damage. There’s no open world, no scattered collectibles beyond upgrade orbs, and only 6 weapons which you’ll unlock before the halfway point.Īll weapons, including Wang’s katana, can be upgraded 3 times using upgrade orbs. It’s in service to a more linear, story-driven experience, designed to be torn through in around 10 hours. The between-mission hub is gone, as are procedurally generated levels, bounty missions, and a good portion of the upgrade systems. With demons and Oni unleashed on the world, Wang is in a race to prevent the apocalypse in a way that doesn’t involve the sacrifice of his friend.Īnyone expecting a structure similar to Shadow Warrior 2 may be disappointed. ![]() As impulsive as ever, Lo Wang steals the mask in which Hoji resides and legs it. However, Zilla’s intentions clash with Wang’s, as the former intends to sacrifice the spirit of Wang’s friend Hoji to save the world. It picks up more or less where Shadow Warrior 2 ended, with Wang and his former enemy Zilla attempting to defeat the enormous dragon they unleashed. This is a game that refuses to take itself seriously, and it’s actually incredibly refreshing. Another quotable classic was “That’s what I call a PowerPoint presentation! I point, you die!” But while it’s cringeworthy, it’s also indicative of Shadow Warrior 3’s intended tone. “That’s a face only a mother could love!” he yells at one enemy as he reduces its upper body to smoking lasagne. ![]() While I’ll give props to the writers for giving him such a massive array of things to shout while eviscerating demons, I’ll also take the same props away for wheeling out such uninspired non-exclamations. A highly trained ninja with a Jack Sparrow level of situational good fortune, Lo Wang is equal parts unstoppable badass and dribbling cretin. Wang himself is a total idiot who just happens to have a superhuman grasp of his own motor skills. Sadly, that leaves very few things to actually laugh at. Wang is now voiced by Asian actor, Mike Moh, and there are fewer jokes about the fact that his name is a funny word for penis. In 2022 however, they have had no choice but to tone it down. The main character’s name is Wang, after all, which Flying Wild Hog might once have assumed was a bottomless pit of killer gags. Shadow Warrior’s one-note comedy arguably became rote before the first game ended, its cultural misappropriation raising eyebrows more or less from the get-go. As evidenced in Shadow Warrior 3, it can also be deployed as an offensive weapon with which to relentlessly bludgeon people until they either become numb to it or start laughing out of nervous habit whenever developer Flying Wild Hog raises a hand. It can diffuse tense situations, bring out a smile in a moment of tragedy, or unite people through shared joy. can be a great tool when applied in the right way at the right time. There’s no official word yet on whether there will also be native PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions.īeen quiet on the 3 release date front but that should change soon!įor now enjoy this spinning Hattori enemy because wow are they a pleasure to fight. Whenever it launches, Shadow Warrior 3will be available for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Recently taking to Twitter, Devolver Digital acknowledged that it has “been quite on the Shadow Warrior 3 release date front,” but promised that “that should change soon.” That’s still pretty vague, of course, and “soon” can mean anything- but let’s hope it means, well, soon. Well, it seems we might not have to wait much longer to get some concrete info. Well, here we are, halfway through September, and there’s still no word on when exactly the game will be out- so what’s going on? Since they announced Shadow Warrior 3 last year, developer Flying Wild Hog and publisher Devolver Digital have remained insistent that the first person shooter will be launching some time in 2021, while a few weeks back, the developer promised that a release date for the game would be announced in August. ![]()
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