Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

 Xbox One
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. GameGrin
    Sep 17, 2020
    90
    A great adaptation of the Samurai Jack cartoon, full of hack and slash action, cool weapons and a beautiful art style. Featuring an original story, even fans of the show never saw.
  2. God is a Geek
    Aug 21, 2020
    85
    Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is a love letter to the animated series and a throwback to classic platform action games of the PS2 era, in the best possible way.
  3. IGN
    Aug 21, 2020
    80
    Even if you’re not a Samurai Jack superfan, Battle Through Time may be worth a playthrough just for the refresher course in how action games used to work and how vital that style can still be in 2020. There are plenty of quirks that come with the game’s curious dedication to the past, but the overall package excels despite them. Following so many slow, tanky duels with skeletons that can take you out in one hit, it’s a blast to tear through countless rock creatures with a single smash of a spiked club.
  5. Cultured Vultures
    Aug 21, 2020
    80
    While not the slickest, fastest character action out there, Battle Through Time feels like a game that fans will be playing time and time again.
  6. ZTGD
    Sep 23, 2020
    75
    At $40 it has a lot to offer. I never found myself angry or bored revisiting previous levels. There’s a fair bit of content for that $40, it’s just that it isn’t perfect and one should know that going into Battle Through Time. Fans of Samurai Jack however will most likely love this game as it canonically takes place during the final season as Jack is trapped in time. I also think Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is great for both adults and kids (whilemost action games nowadays definitely leans to a predominately adult audience). Definitely check it out in that downtime between big releases as there’s plenty here to be impressed by.
  7. Xbox Tavern
    Aug 27, 2020
    75
    Even though I’d not seen an episode of the show before playing I was really rather taken with Samurai Jack: Battle Though Time. It looks great, the combat is fun and fluid, there’s lots to do with upgrading Jack’s abilities, and lots of replayability with the different difficulties and scores to beat. A great game all round and one worth checking out.

Awards & Rankings

70
#70 Best Xbox One Game of 2020

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User Score
8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 1 out of 10
  1. Xbox_Alive
    Aug 26, 2020
    7
    Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time : For those who weren’t tuning into Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, Samurai Jack is about the titularSamurai Jack: Battle Through Time : For those who weren’t tuning into Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, Samurai Jack is about the titular warrior fighting to return to the past and slay the evil wizard Aku. Battle Through Time cleverly posits that Aku had one more trick up his sleeve: he interrupts Jack’s trip back through time and forces the samurai to relive his most exciting battles. This retro action style is fitting for a TV show that emerged during the same period as a deluge of licensed products imitating gaming’s greatest hits. If we look into the game mechanics Weak and strong attacks can be weaved together for light combos, along with a dash (which evolves into a roll), a block mechanic (which can be altered to parry and counter) and a double-jump. There's also multiple options for you to change between melee and ranged weapons but I need to say that weapons really break easy Well to be honest the game giving me the vibes of the old action-RPG games era it's really fun to play yet it's nothing more than a side kick for your game library. It might be really fun with a cup of coffee than you'd probably forget about it .
    But It's absolutely fun and worth a look for your Xbox One.    … Full Review »
  2. Mister04
    Nov 17, 2021
    10
    Good game
  3. Enzo2TheGame
    Aug 24, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. This the worst hack n slash Samurai Jack game ever. I don’t understand why they need another Samurai Jack game? Why? Because it sucks and boring that none people who wants to buy this game,so you must know there is nothing special at ALL. Nothing any good and fantastic,it just a generic licensed game that nobody care about terrible game anyway! I believe one off those developers called Soleil games (a Japanese games) are small company that they made the previous worst game called Naruto to Shinobi Striker. After was release in 2018,Adult Swim Games wants to make a new game: Samurai Jack Battle Through Time just for a new story before the season 5 ends and they probably no choice because it is a cash grab game that nothing is going to escape. which that’s not true that Soleil Games didn’t know the show which are big fans of because they problem didn’t watch the popular cartoon show and they must know what are they talking about. Anyway I can say it’s fell like the developers have truly bad ideas to bring back Samurai Jack in to the video game because licensed video games based of TV cartoon show are considered one off the worst 1990’s and 2000’s games of all time, but they can be at least good or decent games like BFBB or Asterix and Obelix XXL or Jaws Unleashed. Don’t buy this game is very horrible,tedious,boring and piece of garbage that nothing going to get best-selling of all time if the show is end and the movie was really cancelled for a years ago. Please don’t buy this. I repeat: DON’T BUY THIS GAME is AWFUL.… Full Review »
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