Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is a 2020 hack-n-slash game based on the Samurai Jack TV series. It is a 3D hack-and-slash where players control Jack as he travels through different timelines towards his final showdown with Aku.
It was first announced on February 25, 2020 and was released on August 21, 2020.
The game serves as the canon untold Samurai Jack adventure that ties into the epic series finale[1][2].
Gameplay
Plot
The game picks up during the finale of season 5, immediately after Jack has freed Ashi from Aku's control and begins traveling back to the past with her. In a desperate, last-minute attempt to prevent his destruction at the samurai's hand, Aku transports Jack into a time pocket, a rift of time and space that is not affected by the main timeline and under the demon's complete control, forcing Jack to relive many of the challenges he has faced before in familiar locations. Aku also corrupted the royal family's kamon crests with his black magic and scattered them throughout the world. As a side-quest, Jack must destroy them to weaken Aku.
Separated from Ashi and with the aid of the various allies made over the course of his past heroic deeds, Jack resolves to overcome Aku's final scheme, reunite with Ashi, and engage in a final showdown with the demonic shapeshifter, both in the present and the past, to ensure his ultimate destruction once and for all.
Fighting through various robots, demons, and bounty hunters, as well as Ashi and her sisters again, Jack cuts through the remains of Aku's armies with the aid of Scotsman and his daughters, Da Samurai, and Sir Rothchild and engages in a final showdown with his hated nemesis within his fortress. Finally defeating Aku, the rift of time the demon created begins to fade away as the portal back to Ashi and the past opens back up for Jack. Expressing disbelief that his final plans have failed, Aku refuses to surrender just before Jack delivers the final blow, destroying the shapeshifter once and for all in the present/future. Jack is reunited with Ashi as both are transported back to the past where Jack finally destroys Aku, alongside his fortress, undoing all his evil in the future.
If the player defeats Aku after destroying all 50 Corrupted Emperor's Kamon medals throughout the game, they will be treated to a unique scene similar to but separate from the original finale's conclusion. Ashi and Jack are able to finally marry in his liberated homeland and, rather than Ashi fading away and Jack standing alone (as the show had ended), Ashi and Jack happily embrace near fields and mountains of cherry-blossoms. Jack had finally destroyed Aku, both in the future and the past, freed his family and homeland and is finally content and happy with Ashi, the woman who restored his hope.
Levels
- Aku's Mines / Swamp Village
- Castle of Boon / Mountain
- Cave Of The Ancient
- Undead Cemetery
- Aku City / Western Train
- Ruined City
- Snowy Forest / Ruined Tomb
- Sahara Desert / Prison Ship / Robot Graveyard
- Aku's Tower
Characters
Playable
- Samurai Jack
Allies
Enemies
- Beetle Drones
- Beetle Bots
- Alligator Robots
- Bounty Hunters
- Celtic Demons
- Skeleton Warriors
- Dust Zombies
- Shinobi
Bosses
- The Scotsman
- Giant Beetle Drones
- Demongo
- The Lava Monster
- The Hag Witch
- Imakandi Warriors
- Josephine and Ezekiel Clench
- Scaramouche's Golem
- Scaramouche
- The Daughters of Aku
- Lazarus-92
- Ashi
- Aku
Voice Cast
- Mako Iwamatsu as Past Aku (archive sound)
- Greg Baldwin as Aku
- Phil LaMarr as Samurai Jack
- Tara Strong as Ashi, Daughters of Aku, Computer Voice
- Rob Paulsen as Sir Rothchild
- David Alan Grier as Da Samurai
- John DiMaggio as The Scotsman, Zeke
- Grey DeLisle as The Scotsman's Daughters, Josephine Clench
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Demongo, Imakandi Warriors
- Richard McGonagle as Ancient King
- B.J. Ward as Hag Witch the Evil Spirit
- Tom Kenny as Scaramouche
Trivia
- This game marks the first time in nearly 10 years since Jack has appeared in a video game, and the First Samurai Jack Game in 16 years.
- It is the third known Samurai Jack-titled Game since The Amulet of Time and Shadows of Aku, and the second known home console game since Shadows of Aku.
- This game is built in Unreal Engine 4.
- This game is canon and has it's own ending separate from the show's finale. It is unknown whether or not this retcons the show's ending.
- All of the original cast members are returning to voice the characters they portrayed in the show.
References
Trailer
Samurai Jack Battle Through Time - behind the scenes video with new footage-0