Samurai Maiden Out This December; Features Sword-Fighting & Yuri Action

D3 Publisher and developer Shade showed off some gameplay for the upcoming Samurai Maiden, a samurai–time-travelling–hack-and-slash featuring yuri relationships with your ninja partners.

The showcase showed off one of the early levels from Samurai Maiden, along with the combat. While the showcase was more busy showcasing the game’s basic features, let’s take a look at some of the many details we can spot from the game while it was in play.

Samurai Maiden is slated for launch on 1 December and will be available on PS4, PS5, and Switch, with the Steam release arriving a week later on 8 December globally.

Both the physical and digital editions of the game will retail for HK$468, that’s around US$60 or MYR 270.38 with the Deluxe Edition selling for HK$585 or roughly US$75/MYR 337.98.

The showcase itself featured real-time gameplay, with you slashing and cutting away at undead enemies from the Sengoku period. The gameplay also showed us that during combat, you will have three support characters helping you, with one being out on the field at a time. These support characters will fight with you during battles, using unique tools and abilities for certain scenarios, like one character that has a mechanical arm that can be used to pull enemies out of the air.

Each of these allies will have a blue gauge that can be filled up by defeating enemies, and once full you can unleash their powerful skills, which can damage all enemies on the screen at a time, or pull a pesky flyer out of the air.

Samurai Maiden Early Purchase Bonus

If you pre-order the game, you’ll receive an early purchase bonus of a sailor “Gal” outfit for Tsumugi, giving her tan and blonde hair—very gyaru.

The gal outfit is available to early purchasers on the physical, and digital release. The physical release will also get an MP3 download code for the song’s Opening, and Ending theme song, performed by the voice actresses of the main characters. Below you can see the tracklist:

• Opening Theme: “DIVINE TUNING”
  • Vocals: Tsumugi (VA: Yuki Yomichi)
• Ending Theme: “Kotonoha no Saku” Chorus Ver.
  • Vocals: Tsumugi (VA: Yuki Yomichi) / Iyo (VA: Miku Ito) / Hagane (VA: Sumire Uesaka) / Mimi Kitsune (VA: Miyu Tomita)
• Ending Theme: “Kotonoha no Saku” TsumugiVer.
  • Vocals: Tsumugi (VA: Yuki Yomichi)
• Ending Theme: “Kotonoha no Saku” IyoVer.
  • Vocals: Iyo (VA: Miku Ito)
• Ending Theme: “Kotonoha no Saku” HaganeVer.
  • Vocals: Hagane (VA: Sumire Uesaka)
• Ending Theme: “Kotonoha no Saku” Mimi KitsuneVer.
  • Vocals: Mimi Kitsune (VA: Miyu Tomita)