PS2 Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked 2006

[Guel Jeturk]

Yeah, yeah i know another anime based Samurai game, relax take it easy.

The anime's storyline follows the adventures of three wanderers, the outlaw swordsman Mugen, the ronin Jin, and the itinerant Fuu who saved the two from execution in exchange for help finding a samurai who smells of sunflowers.

The storyline is described as a "missing episode" of the trio's travels through Japan. They end up taking a ship to Ezo (modern day Hokkaido), which is suffering from conflicts between the ruling Matsumae clan and the indigenous people. Mugen and Jin's storylines run on separate yet parallel paths, and they interact with original character Worso Tsurumaki, who is associated with the native resistance of Ezo.

Players take control of three characters, they first complete a story campaign as either Mugen or Jin, and after one of these is completed Worso's campaign is unlocked. The remaining character Fuu is only playable in minigames.

Action, Adventure, Hack and Slash by BANDAI NAMCO ENTERTAINMENT

 

[RanmyakuIchi]

Still one of my favorite anime's to this day. This show is comfort food to me. The game was a nice treat for fans.

 

[Jotaro]

the fact that this game was made a bit before no more heroes 1 for wii, it was an experimental version by suda51 for this anime, and its a canon side story for the anime too, had several frustrating parts, but overall was a quite good game, both in dub and undub

easily part of the underrated ps2 games

 

[DunkeyKong]

The guy kinda reminds me of that guy from Yakuza: Like A Dragon

Anyway, great recommendation again!

 

[Num]

this reminds me i loved when games would try to recreate the openings

 

[Jotaro]

The guy kinda reminds me of that guy from Yakuza: Like A Dragon
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Anyway, great recommendation again!

mugen (one of the two mc's is voiced by steve blum too in dub, and by zoro's japanese va in the undub version as well), in a way, you could say, he is proto ichiban, but way more stubborn and confident, 2000s era characters were built dif

 

[Cozycaliban]

All right, man. I claim this to be the greatest anime of all time (not my favorite, but the greatest I have ever seen), and I didn't even know this existed. I am ashamed.

 

[Sumea]

It is especially given the father of this site a shame the similar Cowboy Bebop game on PS2 is Japan only and untranslated to this day.
If other people are unaware; The anime of Samurai Champloo was somewhat twisty spiritual follow up to Cowboy Bebop where they mixed Hip Hop sounds and styles to a 1800's samurai story. A cult classic when it comes to anime series.

 

[tenkai star]

The CGI intro with the anime theme song is straight fire damn

 

[Klonoa7]

I absolutely loved this anime and ended up purchasing the episodes back when you could buy movies and tv shows on the PSP. If it weren’t for emulation I would have missed out on this game. It was pretty nice that the intros to both the anime and the game were similar. Mugen was wild and just didn’t give a f***.

 

[Dyne]

Loved the show, never played the game

 

[DunkeyKong]

mugen (one of the two mc's is voiced by steve blum too in dub, and by zoro's japanese va in the undub version as well), in a way, you could say, he is proto ichiban, but way more stubborn and confident, 2000s era characters were built dif

That's really awesome, and yeah they're built different alright

 

[RebelofDaNeonGod]

Samurai Champloo Sidetracked is one of those super stylish games that people say "oh, it hasn't aged well" (they are too coddled by modern stagnation in their control schemes and can't adapt to a slightly different button layout), it rules, it rocks, it's made by my beloved, Suda51, it's based off a classic anime, what more can you ask?