Trek to Yomi review – a tropey but reverent tribute to Japanese cinema

Trek to Yomi review – a tropey but reverent tribute to Japanese cinema

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https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/may/11/trek-to-yomi-review-a-tropey-but-reverent-tribute-to-japanese-cinema

Xbox Series S/X, PlayStation 4/5, PC; Flying Wild Hog/ Devolver DigitalThis grainy, gore-soaked katana caper slowly morphs into a compelling meditation on vengeance

Even in the prologue, Trek to Yomi features more samurai cliches than you can chuck a katana at. Three levels of joyless brutality made me believe that this was going to be an exercise in gratuitous gore. Yet after a lot of monochromatic murder and speeches about duty, honour and bloodshed, it slowly morphs into something more compelling (though also hardly under-explored in Japanese cinema): a meditation on the inherent selfishness of vengeance.