Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked

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  • Summary: Samurai Champloo steps out of the hack-and-slash action genre and offers a new way to swing a finely-honed samurai blade. Set in Japan with hip hop feel from the hit TV series by the same name, this title allows gamers to breathe life to a "lost episode" as one of three playable characters –Samurai Champloo steps out of the hack-and-slash action genre and offers a new way to swing a finely-honed samurai blade. Set in Japan with hip hop feel from the hit TV series by the same name, this title allows gamers to breathe life to a "lost episode" as one of three playable characters – Mugen, a reckless samurai with break-dancing fighting style, calculated Jin who abides by the decorum of Bushido, and a mysterious new character exclusive to the video game. Stranded in northern land of Ezo (current day Hokkaido) in search of the samurai who smells of sunflowers, the player must face foreign mercenaries, master swordsmen, diabolical assassins, mythical beasts, and gangster monkeys. The core of the game's unique combat system lies in the innovative integration of music and linked attacks. The players can choose an array of combos based on the different hip hop grooves that they can swap at will. Music tracks become collectible, opening an extensive assortment of linked attacks that can be implemented tactically during combat. [Bandai]… Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 26
  3. Negative: 4 out of 26
  1. GameBrink
    88
    Samurai Champloo is just a rocking game with fun gameplay, amazing style, great story and presentation, and awesome music. [JPN Import]
  2. Gaming Horizon
    80
    Samurai Champloo is a game that’s definitely more flash than substance, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a shallow game.
  3. Worth Playing
    75
    If you're a fan, rejoice and get this game, flaws and all.
  4. 1UP
    70
    Sure, it does have some taxing level-design problems, but its presentation and sheer wackiness and randomness saves it from being just another statistic.
  5. Gaming Age
    67
    Sidetracked is a hard sell due to it just being so weird. Strange gameplay styles and psychedelia combine to make a game that is at once compelling and borderline offensive in its ways.
  6. Edge Magazine
    60
    Were it not for its creative direction's admirable job of filling in its patchy mechanics' gaps it would be entirely skippable. With those gaps filled it's a charming, if flawed, achievement. [June 2006, p.96]
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  7. G4 TV
    40
    From the thin level design to the promising but ultimately limited combo system, Sidetracked seems more like a proof of concept than a final product. It does break out into some very cool moves once in a while, but most of them can be had for free, simply by tuning into "Adult Swim."

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. JayK.
    Apr 16, 2006
    10
    this game is not like the rest slash type games but also a beat maker thre better the beat the better the move and if you seen the hit anime this game is not like the rest slash type games but also a beat maker thre better the beat the better the move and if you seen the hit anime show well its nothing like same chartcters muen jin and fu but you have to follow this masterius charcter the game play is cool and this is one of the best anime basde games ever created and if you like the show than this game is for you.… Expand
  2. TheGeekGetaway
    Sep 30, 2020
    7
    Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked is a good game for those who are into button-mashing hack and slash games, and also those who grew up with theSamurai Champloo: Sidetracked is a good game for those who are into button-mashing hack and slash games, and also those who grew up with the anime. The game definitely shows some of Suda 51's unique touches. Despite being average at times, and frustrating, it has fun gameplay that will hook you for a while.… Expand
  4. JohnnyD.
    Apr 20, 2006
    6
    amazing I luved it all the way thru butt for an fps it cud hav had more wepons.

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Awards & Rankings

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#93 Best PS2 Game of 2006
83
#83 Most Shared PS2 Game of 2006