Mikiko Ebihara, Toshiro's daughter, has been captured when trying to steal back the Daikatana, and Hiro must rescue her and fix history. He stole the cure to a viral plague in 2030 and uses the cure to control the world's population. Toshiro tells Hiro that Kage Mishima, the ruler of the planet, took over the world by stealing the Daikatana and using it to alter history. Toshiro Ebihara, a descendant of Inshiro who is suffering from a plague and about to die. In 2455 AD, swordmaster Hiro Miyamoto is visited by a man named Dr. However, Usagi realizes the Mishimas' dark desires and gives the Daikatana to the Ebihara Inshiro Ebihara throws the sword into a volcano at the end of the war. The Mishima go to the swordmaster Usagi Miyamoto to craft a weapon to end the conflict: the Daikatana. In feudal Japan, two rival clans, the Ebihara and the Mishima, are at war. Due to poor AI implementation, the sidekicks, who were one of the game's selling points, became a focus of criticism. The death of either sidekick resulted in failing the level, and their assistance was required to complete certain puzzles. One element that Daikatana stressed was the important role of Hiro Miyamoto's two sidekicks, Mikiko Ebihara and Superfly Johnson. Each episode represents a different location and time period: 25th century Japan in 2455 AD, ancient Greece in 1200 BC, the Dark Ages in Norway in 560 AD, and near-future San Francisco in 2030 AD. ( May 2015)ĭaikatana is composed of 24 levels (18 in the console versions) divided into four episodes, with a varying number of levels per episode. Due to the negative response, a separate version for the Game Boy Color did not receive North American distribution it was released in Europe and Japan to a more positive reception. It also sold only 40,351 copies, becoming one of the biggest major commercial failures of the video game industry. Released in May 2000, Daikatana received mostly negative reviews for its outdated graphics, gameplay, repetitive sound effects, and poor artificial intelligence. The protracted development, combined with promotion that focused on Romero's involvement over the game itself, resulted in negative publicity for Daikatana prior to its release. Announced in 1997 as Romero's first game after leaving id Software, it underwent a troubled development that saw a change in its engine, release date delays, and the departure of several staff members. ![]() Players control a swordsmaster who travels through various time periods in an effort to obtain the eponymous Daikatana, a powerful sword tied to the fate of the world.ĭaikatana was directed by Ion Storm co-founder John Romero, a co-developer of the influential first-person shooters Wolfenstein 3D (1992), Doom (1993), and Quake (1996). ![]() It was published by Eidos Interactive for Microsoft Windows and Kemco for Nintendo 64. Daikatana is a 2000 first-person shooter game developed by Ion Storm.
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