Perhaps in anticipation of the (upcoming?) release of Samurai Basara: Samurai Heroes, for the PlayStation 3 and, oddly enough the Wii, or Battle Heroes, a PSP game in the same vein, Kaiyodo is producing a Power Shop set of Revoltech figures from the series.
Localized (poorly) as Devil Kings, Sengoku Basara are a set of hack-and-slash games that take place in the Sengoku period of Japan, featuring Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimura, two historical samurai tasked with killing the sh*t out of tons of dudes. While Sengoku Basara focused, more or less, on Japanese history, Devil Kings eventually turned into a weird, fantasy story that takes place in Hell.
But, anyway, that's not what this post is about; it's about these awesome Revoltech figs of Yukimura and Masamune. And the real story isn't that they exist -- full color Sengoku Basara figs have been on sale for months now. The real treat are these new all-white colorways that go on sale at the end of the month. As with all Revoltechs, these figures are highly articulated and posable.
Hack-and-slash isn't exactlty my genre of choice -- there aren't enough Firaga spells or shotguns for my tastes -- but these Revoltechs are pretty nice looking. If you're more of a thinking man, Kaiyodo is also offering a Professor Layton Revoltech. If you've got a spare pile of cash laying around, you can buy both.
Or, y'know, buy me one. I particularly like the Date Masamune fig.
Pre-orders are available from Otactute and AmiAmi for about 2,400 yen.
Revoltech Sanada Yukimura & Date Masamune [alafista via Tomopop]
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3:00 AM on 01.23.2010
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To me, it'd be like if we never got Street Fighter II in America, just because the original Street Fighter sucked balls.
Anyway, I always want a Date Masamune figure. The only thing that holds me back is how expensive they are, but 2400 Yen ain't bad.
There is also miniguns and drill armed robot samurai.
PUT YA GUNS ON!!!
But really, those are some great looking figures, especially considering the price. I would've expected 3000 Yen in the very least. Then again, it is Revoltech and they rarely fail to amaze me.
SW3 needs to hurry the hell up and get an American release date, ya'meen?
It's like Dynasty Warrior, if you took out all the boring and replaced it with fun. A lot faster paced than Dynasty Warriors, a great deal more variety in the enemies you fight (You won't see Gigantic Zombies w/ Spiked Clubs or Wooden AT-AT Imperial Walkers in Dynasty Warriors, I'm sure), zany characters with zany weapons (or at least zany ways of using normal weapons - katana? No big deal. Using six katana at once with three in each hand? Crazy Awesome.), and it just doesn't take itself seriously.
even the enemies who are the equivalent of the generic officers could kill you in 4 or 5 hits
bingo
Scott S.
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Scott S.
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