Except it’s in clear as day HD, without the residue you expect in one of our piles of PS2 remasters.
It’s the way Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time looks, sounds, feels, and operates just like a game that would have come out in the early 2000s. After all, it’s 2020 and I’ve been consistently hyped about a TV show based on Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. Bringing back older, classic IP isn’t a strange move by itself. Making my way through this dated, yet contemporary licensed action game tied to a show I watched premiere back in 2001 is a surreal feeling to say the least. Playing this game feels like, as Jack makes his way through a greatest-hits revisit of the show’s time periods and zany characters, traveling through time yourself back to what many refer to as the “PS2 era.” The third game from emergent developer Soleil, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is possibly the most aptly-titled project in video game history. It’s even more weird that a few years after that, in 2020, a new Samurai Jack video game has appeared.
A fifth season aired on Adult Swim, over ten years since the original was cancelled. It was already weird enough that Genndy Tartakovsky, director of several stylish, critically praised but toy store-rejected cartoon shows got to finish Samurai Jack.
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