{"id":25587,"date":"2025-04-21T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25587"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:34:35","slug":"sonokuni-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/sonokuni-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonokuni (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/sonokuni_box\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-25568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_BOX-150x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_BOX-150x86.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_BOX.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Sonokuni has got to be one of the weirdest games I\u2019ve ever played.\u00a0 You are Takeru, a female Japanese warrior and you must fight your way through a biopunk Japanese hip-hop landscape.\u00a0 Whatever that is.\u00a0 View the action in an overhead perspective with trippy visuals and a crazy soundtrack.\u00a0 Sonokuni is available for Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n<p>Between the stages you\u2019ll do a short side scrolling segment and talk with people to advance the story, which I have to say isn\u2019t very engaging.\u00a0 Then in the levels you view the action in top down perspective.\u00a0 The levels look like house floor plans that a hyperactive five year old got a hold of and dumped an art set on.\u00a0 But when you enter a room, you\u2019ll encounter enemies and have a split second to react before you get killed.\u00a0 You can swing a weapon around and reflect some shots.\u00a0 You can also slow down time, which is very handy since you\u2019ll die if you blink, and another button lets you shield against other projectiles.\u00a0 You must figure out the best way to quickly react to whatever is in your way.<\/p>\n<p>Some may find the graphics artistic, and I couldn\u2019t blame them for that.\u00a0 But I just found them garish and headache inducing, personally.\u00a0 The music is also just weird.\u00a0 But my main problem with the game is that it\u2019s just way too hard.\u00a0 But if you have crazy reflexes and like trippy Japanese visuals, you might enjoy this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/sonokuni_screen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25569\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_SCREEN.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_SCREEN-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SONOKUNI_SCREEN-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><br \/>\nSonokuni is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood and Violence.\u00a0 You fight all sorts of enemies that splatter on the ground when defeated, but the blood is multicolored and looks like everyone drank a lot of florescent Kool-Aid.\u00a0 Really the best reason why this one is best for older gamers is the high difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonokuni has got to be one of the weirdest games I\u2019ve ever played.\u00a0 You are Takeru, a female Japanese warrior and you must fight your way through a biopunk Japanese hip-hop landscape.\u00a0 Whatever that is.\u00a0 View the action in an overhead perspective with trippy visuals and a crazy soundtrack.\u00a0 Sonokuni is available for Switch and 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