I really enjoyed all the designs of the levels even though a lot of it feels like small, interconnected platforming parts to get to the next battle arena. The story takes us through some really great looking Feudal Japan locations while we hack ‘n’ shoot through waves of nasty demons. This is the story about how Lo Wang gets his groove back. Teaming up with his once rival Orochi Zilla, Wang sets off on a mission to get his mojo back and stop another demon invasion lead by the world-ending dragon. We do get to play a few flashbacks through these segments where we are trying to take down the dragon, but ultimately Wang couldn’t finish and lost his mojo. This is where Lo Wang catches us up with the ending of two and a bit of an exposition dump about what’s happened since they released the massive dragon. We join Lo Wang amidst a completely destroyed Wang Cave, having a meltdown talking to action figures in his tighty-whities. My point being, Shadow Warrior 3 goes back to the first games linear story focus, but it also improves it a lot.

However, the second game added so many weapons, stats, RPG elements, and mission freedom that if that is what you enjoyed more than Shadow Warrior 3 may feel like a big step back. For myself, I liked the more linear focus of the first game over the seconds procedural generated level designs and less focused story. Depending on when you got into the series you may have had mixed feeling about Shadow Warrior 2‘s direction. The Wang is back and harder than ever with a new sack of weapons and loads of hot new jokes.

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