This is the promise from Flying Wild Hog, that while Shadow Warrior has always had a very puerile sense of humor inhabiting it, they can still tread a path to teach us all a little more about what makes humanity worth fighting for. Every character may well have an agenda, but they are not too proud to admit when it may not be in their best interests to pursue it – allowing a somewhat warm tale of human nature to form the core of this tale. What follows is a curiously flawed set of hare-brained schemes and failures, all anchored by Lo Wang learning about trust and hope. It is this uneasy alliance that plants the seed for character development within the game.
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Thankfully Zilla (former antagonist and well known series Asshole) turns up and offers a truce to perhaps stop the dragon from eating the entire world. Turns out the giant dragon from the end of Shadow Warrior 2 is a real bastard to kill, and the epic failure on Wang’s part has left him feeling washed up and pathetic. The third instalment reaches deep into its own mythology to take another step into the absurd nature of its storytelling, finding the protagonist Lo Wang alone in his ruined Wang Cave – moping about in his underpants.
This time we see a pretty savage crank on the tone knob, blasting a severe injection of colour and zaniness into the IP – and it works. Starting off as a fun but overtly stereotyped DOOM clone in 1997, the rebooted version from 2013 managed to identify what made it neat and focus on its strengths, ditching the racism to instead form a modern foundation as a series that continues to one-up itself and surprise me time and time again. Shadow Warrior is a franchise I have always been rooting for.
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