Iaijutsu
Isaac Taylor · 2023 · Action, Arcade, Beat 'em up, Platformer, 2D Platformer
PC
Mixed58% · 12
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About Iaijutsu
In Samurai Bushido tradition, "Iaijutsu" is the technique of quickly drawing your blade for lethal effect. Precision, patience and timing are key to this form. So too is it the key to besting your foes in this rooftop hopping action platformer. Play as the nameless ronin as you seek to liberate your clan from its corrupt usurpers. Your opponents will be tough and will block any careless attacks you may make, so pay close attention to their moves and choose when you draw your blade carefully.
- Journey through two levels featuring a variety of beautiful pixel art environments
- Encounter several combinations of enemies with varying abilities
- Face off one on one against two tough bosses
- Iaijutsu features an original soundtrack by samurai descendant Jeffrey Daijiro Taylor featuring two intense songs for Taiko drums.
Controls:
Move: A and D
Strike: J
Jump: Space
Dash Attack: Jump + Strike, use WASD to control direction of dash
- Journey through two levels featuring a variety of beautiful pixel art environments
- Encounter several combinations of enemies with varying abilities
- Face off one on one against two tough bosses
- Iaijutsu features an original soundtrack by samurai descendant Jeffrey Daijiro Taylor featuring two intense songs for Taiko drums.
Controls:
Move: A and D
Strike: J
Jump: Space
Dash Attack: Jump + Strike, use WASD to control direction of dash
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]Before I played Iaijutsu, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]2 found this helpful
Iaijutsu is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. Iaijutsu itself is the ancient Japanese martial technique of drawing a sword in the most lethal way possible. The idea, and you might have seen this in a few Samurai films, to draw the sword as part of an attack. There's a certain style to drawing a sword then putting it straight back in the scabbard after killing someone with the first stroke, I suppose. Why the history lesson? To point out this game has nothing to do with Iaijutsu. It's just a crap 2D retro pixel platformer/slasher from someone who watched way too much Rouroni Kenshin or some other anime. Platforming is an old, mostly dead genre, and this lacklustre experience, while it doesn't have an upfront cost, isn't saving the genre... it's no surprise this failed to capture any attention from gamers in the era of immersive 3D gaming. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to sa…1 found this helpful
one of those games you spent more time looking for than playing1 found this helpful
The controls are needlessly awkward, it would probably play better on a controller if it had support. Ran into a couple bugs within the literal first minute including: The player character not dieing when losing all their health, and enemies stuck spamming attack in place when they are killed.1 found this helpful
nice
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