You’re going to need to do a lot of experimentation to arrive and a blend of abilities that you like, but the potential combinations available to you number in the literal millions. In combat that would mean you then had a three-button combo to swing, sweep, and then duck out of the way.īy the time you’ve done this to all your buttons, your character is a massive mess of skills and abilities intricately linked together into combos that suit your gameplay style. Then you could follow that up by setting up two more button presses that enact a sweeping attack and a dash. So, for example, you could stack four “normal” attack scrolls and four “power” scrolls to a single button press, and then get a very powerful swing of your sword out of it. The trick is that you can both pile up abilities to a single action, and create combos that are mapped to each button. You can map these abilities to buttons, and work off a completely blank slate you don’t even have a basic attack unless you map it.

To try and explain it in basic terms: as you defeat enemies they will drop scrolls, which allow for a wide range of abilities from standard attacks, dodges and jumps, through to more exotic skills like sweeps, ranged attacks and magical abilities.

It’s a little overwhelming at first, but before long you’ll start wondering if you can ever go back to more mundane equipment systems. The main hook here is your ability to create your own attack routines and “equipment” on the fly.

Related reading: Another excellent katanas-and-Japanese-history roguelike available on Switch is Katana Kami. This game is an excellent, clever, interesting and entertaining take on the roguelike, and while I’m getting increasingly burned out by that term and genre, games like this remind me that there is still some creativity left to squeeze out of the stone. If that doesn’t have you rushing to the eShop to buy it right now, then you’re probably not a regular reader of. Samurai Bringer is Samurai Warriors: The Roguelike.

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