{"id":5691,"date":"2022-05-11T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/trek-to-yomi-review-a-tropey-but-reverent-tribute-to-japanese-cinema\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T11:37:12","slug":"trek-to-yomi-review-a-tropey-but-reverent-tribute-to-japanese-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/11\/trek-to-yomi-review-a-tropey-but-reverent-tribute-to-japanese-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek to Yomi review \u2013 a tropey but reverent tribute to Japanese cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xbox Series S\/X, PlayStation 4\/5, PC; Flying Wild Hog\/ Devolver Digital
<\/strong>This grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Even in the prologue, Trek to Yomi features more samurai cliches than you can chuck a katana at. Three levels of joyless brutality made me believe that this was going to be an exercise in gratuitous gore. Yet after a lot of monochromatic murder and speeches about duty, honour and bloodshed, it slowly morphs into something more compelling (though also hardly under-explored in Japanese cinema): a meditation on the inherent selfishness of vengeance.<\/p>\n

Sporting a try-hard, Kurosawa<\/a>-inspired black and white aesthetic \u2013 complete with filmic grain \u2013 this game\u2019s influences are less worn on its sleeve than embroidered into the entire kimono. Still, credit where credit\u2019s due \u2013 solid Japanese voice talent helps this Polish\/American collab feel more authentic. Trek to Yomi inevitably lives in the shadow of 2020\u2019s Ghost of Tsushima<\/a>, US studio Sucker Punch\u2019s similarly reverent tribute to samurai cinema. Where Ghost breaks up the bloodshed with jovial jaunts chasing foxes across its open world or solving people\u2019s problems, Yomi is a slash-happy side-scroller that doubles down on brutality, channelling the manga series Lone Wolf and Cub\u2019s sadistic spirit.<\/p>\n

Trek to Yomi is out now; \u00a315.99<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nXbox Series S\/X, PlayStation 4\/5, PC; Flying Wild Hog\/ Devolver DigitalThis grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance<\/p>\n

Even in the prologue, Trek to Yomi features more samurai cliches than you can chuck a katana at. Three levels of joyless brutality made me believe that this was going to be an exercise in gratuitous gore. Yet after a lot of monochromatic murder and speeches about duty, honour and bloodshed, it slowly morphs into something more compelling (though also hardly under-explored in Japanese cinema): a meditation on the inherent selfishness of vengeance.
\nSporting a try-hard, Kurosawa-inspired black and white aesthetic \u2013 complete with filmic grain \u2013 this game\u2019s influences are less worn on its sleeve than embroidered into the entire kimono. Still, credit where credit\u2019s due \u2013 solid Japanese voice talent helps this Polish\/American collab feel more authentic. Trek to Yomi inevitably lives in the shadow of 2020\u2019s Ghost of Tsushima, US studio Sucker Punch\u2019s similarly reverent tribute to samurai cinema. Where Ghost breaks up the bloodshed with jovial jaunts chasing foxes across its open world or solving people\u2019s problems, Yomi is a slash-happy side-scroller that doubles down on brutality, channelling the manga series Lone Wolf and Cub\u2019s sadistic spirit.
\nTrek to Yomi is out now; \u00a315.99 Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xbox Series S\/X, PlayStation 4\/5, PC; Flying Wild Hog\/ Devolver DigitalThis grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance Even in the prologue, Trek to Yomi features more samurai cliches than you can chuck a katana at. Three levels of joyless brutality made me believe that this was going to be …<\/p>\n

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