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Devil Kings
Known as Sengoku Basara in Japan, Devil Kings is a hack-and-slash action game set during the Warring States era of Japanese history.
Overview
Devil Kings is the western version of the original Sengoku Basara, a Capcom (Company) action game for the PS2 that was released in 2005. Though the game is inspired by and loosely based on Japanese history of the Warring States period, the western release changed the names of the game's historical figures and removed the historical context from the storyline. This localization practice continued until the release of the third game, the first to be released in the west under the Sengoku Basara (Franchise) name as Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Devil Kings is similar in nature to that of Koei's Musou (Franchise) franchise. Each stage sets the player as an officer in a battle between warring armies. Stages are won by cutting through hordes of low-ranking soldiers and challenging rival officers to complete objectives.
Characters
For the Devil Kings localization, the characters had their names changed. Character models, cutscenes, missions and dialogue were largely left unchanged, save for the removal of historical references from the story. The below lists provide the characters' original names, followed by their localized names.
Playable Characters
- Nobunaga Oda (Character) - Devil King
- Noh - Lady Butterfly
- Ranmaru Mori (Character) - Hornet
- Shingen Takeda (Character) - Red Minotaur
- Yukimura Sanada (Character) - Scorpio
- Masamune Date (Character) - Azure Dragon
- Kenshin Uesugi (Character) - Frost
- Itsuki - Puff
- Zabil - Q-ball
- Tadakatsu Honda (Character) - Iron Ox
Non-Player Characters
- Sasuke Sarutobi - Talon
- Kasuga (Character) - Venus
- Matsu Maeda - Bramble
- Toshiie Maeda (Character) - Lark
- Mitsuhide Akechi (Character) - Reaper
- Motochika Chosokabe (Character) - Arslan
- Motonari Mori (Character) - Kahz
- Ieyasu Tokugawa (Character) - Irdene
- Yoshihiro Shimazu (Character) - Zaan
- Yoshimoto Imagawa (Character) - Muri
- Ujimasa Hojo - Orwik
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- Name
- Devil Kings
- Release Date
- October 12, 2005
- Platform
- PlayStation 2 (Platform)
- Developer
- Publisher
- Genre
- Action (Genre)
- Theme
- Alternate Historical (Theme)
- Franchise
- Sengoku Basara (Franchise)
- Aliases
- Sengoku Basara