Your sword can also be used to reflect bullets back at the shooter while using a time altering drug known as Chronos. Slashing through waves of bad guys is challenging, but rewarding when you finally get it right. There are plenty of tools at your disposal to mow down your enemies, first of which is your trusty katana blade. As I alluded to earlier, this can be frustrating to say the least, but oh so joy inducing upon success. For an extra layer of difficulty you’ll have to complete each stage within a certain time limit or else be reset back to the start of the room. If you’re struck by any foes you’ll be rewound back to the start of the room and have to plan a new method of attack. This seems simple enough, but the game has a strict one hit, one kill policy both for you and your enemies.

You’ll enter a room and have to defeat all of the enemies on screen before being able to advance to the next.

So, yeah the story is a bit cliché if you’re someone like me who grew up watching ‘80s action movies, but thankfully Katana Zero prioritizes gameplay over story.Įvery level presents the player with a new target to assassinate along with their entire factory of goons in suits ready to stop you.

In a dystopian cyberpunk future, a lone katana-wielding warrior operates as a hitman for unknown employers, all the while uncovering secrets about a forgotten past. The game tries to be a lot of different things all at once and, for the most part, does them all pretty darn well, albeit with some extremely difficult scenarios that will put you on the verge of throwing your Switch out the window. Katana Zero slices onto the Nintendo Switch with lightning fast samurai action presented in the style of 1980s action flicks with some cyberpunk elements thrown in for good measure.

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