Tecmo Koei’s game Samurai Warriors 4 may be seeing a western release, the game’s producer Hisashi Koinuma revealed over Twitter.
The title, known as Sengoku Musou 4 in Japan, is the latest installation in the series and is expected to launch in the country on March 20 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Previous series titles have been release to western markets.
Samurai Warriors 4 is a hack-and-slash game featuring 50 characters including warlords that have been part of past Samurai Warrior games. The storyline is centred on two brothers; both are samurais who fought for rival clans.
“We’ve challenged ourselves to all sorts of things in previous titles,” producer Hisashi Koinuma told Famitsu, sorced through Polygon. “For this game, it’s the tenth anniversary, and our aim is to go back to the core of the series and develop a game that takes the high road with the concept. [That means] a story that really follows Japanese history, exciting characters portrayed in a cool way, and of course that Warriors-style exhilarating action. I feel like the mission given to us is to safeguard all these aspects of the series, something only a maker like Tecmo Koei could do.”
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