Shin Samurai Jazz

My thirsty blade burns Hotter than kitsunebi, Cooler than square bass. One of the most telling signs, in my opinion at least, that a game designer is doing something really right is when I can spot his or her fingerprints immediately on a game. Eric Chahi's fingerprints are all over Another World and Heart of Darkness, for example, but one can feel his presence in Flashback's DNA, too, even if it's clear that the game wasn't his own work. Jordan Mechner's cinematic eye is similarly unmistakable, and elements of it can be felt most powerfully on another game from this author...but Larry Stover (aka Blaze Epic) rightly holds his place as a game visionary of his own, and his titles, though influenced by Mechner, have a distinct flavor of their own, and can be recognized by his fingerprints as readily as Chahi's and Mechner's titles can be recognized by theirs. If Mechner is Cheb Khaled, then Stover is Rachid Taha, a little wilder, a little earthier, a little more raw and visceral, and ...

If u like megaman, 8 bit graphics, and like figuring stuff out yourself, this is your game :D! i love how this guy is a jazz samurai, not only that it is really unique(did you ever heard of a jazz samurai?), the atmosphere - is just so perfect, everything fits right into it. There are no voices just the music, and some fighting sounds. I really recommend it to everyone. I like playing it with a controller, but that depends on you i guess. 10/10, and its worth the 0,99$, probably even more.

You like a hard 2d game Try this out I would probably rate it 8/10 even though its a 2d game it was fun, I got mad at the game half of the time, but it was good a lot of great Jazz music when playing. Have fun!

I wanted to like this game, but even for a retro title, the combat is unacceptable. The soundtrack is nice yes, but it doesnt make up for lack of depth in the gameplay. The menu is hellish, and the graphics leave lots to be wanted. There are many retro games that just look "nice", this isn't one of them. ENVOY RATED: 3/10

Game has a cool concept but gets way to difficult to fast interms of jump machanics and spikes.

Game looks stylish but gameplay is boring and animations are horrible.

I really liked the gameplay, ambiance and just general "feel" of samurai_jazz, so I was pretty excited to play the sequel... Unfortunately this is nothing like samurai_jazz. Shin Samurai Jazz has the same music and similar art style, but totally different gameplay mechanics. I liked the acheievements for less deaths, having bosses at points other than just the end of the game and a little more "story" to explain some of the weirdness. Adding those to samurai_jazz would have made it even more fun and enjoyable. The big letdown here is that Shin Samurai Jazz is not a side-scrolling beat-em-up like the previous game, but a meat boy style platformer with some beat-em-up mechanics.

Controls are crap....

Shin Samurai Jazz is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This badly made GameMaker Studio template job is a craptastic pixeltrash platformer with a loose "samurai" theme featuring a lot of hack and slash as well as your usual wall jumping, double jumping, hazard avoiding, and there's a minor "adventure" game element. None of these individual factors is implemented remotely well. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution...

Yet another retro style game that feels like something from the NES-era. And that's not always a good thing. Some aspects of that era should be left behind forever, stiff control and movement scheme is most certainly one of those things. It is quite possible, that this game has enough content for people, who are willing to look past the controls and the overall look, so i won't rate it too low, but on the binary rating system of Steam it still means "not recommended". 6/10