Sengoku Basara Retrospective: The Other Media

With the success of Sengoku Basara 2 in Japan, it was only natural that Capcom would ride the merchandise train and branch the franchise off into other media as well as a few spin-off games.  Eventually some of that media would come to America alongside the first properly translated English game, but since the spin-off games were made during Capcom’s terminally stupid era, they were not released in English.

There was a pair of stripped-down PSP games, Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes and Chronicle Heroes, as well as a fighting game called Sengoku Basara X.  Normally I wouldn’t bother going over them because they’re not especially notable, not part of the main games and I haven’t played them, but it just so happens as I was writing the retrospective that a local arcade had Sengoku Basara X, so I can touch on that.

Sengoku Basara Retrospective: Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes/3

Capcom pretty much perfected the Sengoku Basara formula the first game created with Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes.  After riding that for a few years and releasing a fighting game in the interim, it was time for Sengoku Basara to evolve with the console hardware.  With a new game engine and new play style, the next Sengoku Basara game was indeed an evolution, but the most important evolution of all was that IT’S IN ENGLISH!  IT’S IN ENGLISH!  IT’S IN ENGLISH!  IT’S IN ENGLISH!

They even got T.M. Revolution to do the opening in English!  I don’t blame anyone for thinking it’s not though.