![]() ![]() The fantastical, monster-like designs of some of the ninja and the outlandish techniques they employ will almost certainly bring the likes of Ninja Scroll to mind and you wouldn’t be wrong. The attention to historic detail, as far as the setting and political climate goes, is a nice touch but that’s where the reality check stops. There’s one problem though, two of the ninja from the rival clans are in love! Oh dear… ![]() The clan that comes out on top will decide the outcome of the next Tokugawa shogunate. To resolve this family feud, Ieyasu summons two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, to represent his grandsons and instructs them to select ten ninja each who will battle to the death. With the aging ruler, Tokugawa Ieyasu, kicking on a bit, two of his grandsons are positioning themselves against each other to take over as Shogun. So what do we have here? Well, Basilisk is set during the early period of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1614. So having gorged myself on a healthy dose of cyber-crime conspiracies, mechs and inter-dimensional time travellers recently, I felt like checking out studio Gonzo’s outing into feudal Japan, Basilisk. ![]() It was only a month ago that Ross was grumbling about being bored of always having to review the ‘period’ stuff. ![]()
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