Platform:
PlayStation 5, Switch, PC
Publisher:
XSEED Games, Marvelous Games
Developer:
Vanillaware
Release:
Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a Nintendo Wii exclusive and a beloved title among fans of developer Vanillaware, later enhanced with a PlayStation Vita remaster in Muramasa Rebirth in 2013. Rebirth also brought Genroku Legends, a standalone DLC with new stories and playable characters to the game’s gorgeous, painterly side-scrolling action. In a touch of painful irony, Rebirth has remained locked to the Vita, just as The Demon Blade was to the Wii before. Finally, though, Vanillaware is teaming up with publisher Marvelous to bring all of Muramasa’s history to modern consoles.
Dubbed Muramasa: Revenant Blades, this 4K remaster combines Rebirth and its Genroku Legends DLC into one cohesive package – you can lay that Wii and dusty Vita to rest now. I played roughly an hour of it in a quiet Marvelous office space in Tokyo’s Shinagawa district, and have been staring at my Switch 2 ever since, doing my best to manifest its immediate existence on the console. I haven’t touched the Muramasa series in well over a decade, but I didn’t miss a beat, slicing my way through the game’s first two acts on the Moral (see: hard) difficulty. It was tough, but that challenge only pushed me to pay even closer attention to what I was doing in this classic Vanillaware action-platformer beat ‘em up. I already can’t wait for more.
Muramasa has always been a looker of a series, but in this renewed 4K presentation, completely redrawn by Vanillaware’s artists, it is especially beautiful.
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