Hanako: Honor & Blade Presskit

Factsheet

Developer:
+MPACT Games
Based in United States

Release date:
September 1 2021

Platforms:
Windows

Available From:
Free - Steam
$14.99 - Green Man Gaming

Description

Travel through a beautiful, fictional rendition of the 16th century of Feudal Japan. Choose between four types of warriors as you learn to master intuitive, directionally-driven swordplay while also choosing unique abilities to ensure victory over your foes. Join your friends in an immersive multiplayer campaign across Japan in pursuit of either preserving the peace and honor of the Emperor or bringing on chaos and death by playing across four different game modes with different objectives and strategies. Whether you prefer the blade wielding Kenshi or Naginata Samurai, the range and precision of the Samurai Archer, or the deceptive Ninja, the options are vast and the battles fierce.

History

The artistic qualities and backstory of the game serve as a symbolic tribute to team lead, Matt Canei's late mother. The art and lore of the game represent an everlasting struggle of life and death, health and disease and the natural balance of opposing forces to metaphorically represent real-life tragedies and to honor those lost.

Features

Directional-Driven Combat
Tug-of-War Online Campaign
4 Character Classes

Videos

Hanako Summer '16 Gameplay Teaser YouTube

Hanako End of Year Dev Update 2016 YouTube

Hanako Reawakens Teaser - Samurai PC Game YouTube

Images

Download all screenshots & photos as .zip

Logo & Icon

Download logo/icon assets as .zip

Selected Articles

"Hanako is not just another game about feudal Japan. Don’t expect anything like Samurai Warriors or Sengoku Basura. This game is a project that has had extensive knowledge, attention to detail, and love poured into it over the last 7 years. This is more like an interactive work of art."
- Kate Farrow, Game Skinny
"One of the potentially standout features of Hanako so far is its combat system. It’s always fun to pull out a few swords and bows to battle it out, but Hanako takes it a step further; the game features directionally-driven combat, meaning that swordplay and thoughtful swing of the blade will triumph over mindless hacking."
- Taylor Whaley, Indie Game Mag