As what usually happens is the villains have the most interesting personalities.ĭarrick: Without a doubt, Aku is also my favorite character in the Samurai Jack universe. And to fight the Scotsman?! It was all so much fun! Seeing Aku City realized in a 3D space and making Jack run, jump, and battle his way across was just incredible. Genndy: It was strange, but fun! I usually am used to doing all my Jack battles with pen and paper, but now it was easily accessible to me with a press of a button.ĭarrick: It literally gave me goosebumps. What was it like picking up the controller and playing the game?
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They are also huge fans of the series, so it was a real labor of love to capture the look and feel of the series in a 3D environment. Needless to say, this game was amazing right from the start! The Soleil team are truly phenomenal and have worked tirelessly to bring Jack’s world to life. There had been some attempts to do Samurai Jack games in the past, but none had quite lived up to the level of the series.
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Making the TV episodes was really the same thing as each episode I get to fight whatever I’m drawing, but this was a much more fun experience in a way because it was immediate action.ĭarrick: I really didn’t know what to expect when we first got the chance to demo the game at Soleil Game Studios in Japan. Genndy: It was super fun! I didn’t realize how many different characters were put into the game.
What’s it like being able to not only see, but fight with or against the characters you were writing for? It was such a thrill to play in that world again. You suddenly find yourself having to rediscover Jack’s relationships with amazing characters like the Scotsman or Da Samurai, be immersed in the action of facing off against foes like the Imakandi or travel to places like the graveyard from episode 30. The real challenge came from revisiting the characters and locations from the first four seasons. We had finished the fifth season only a few years prior, so characters like Ashi, the Daughters of Aku, and Scaramouche were still rattling around in our heads. Genndy: It’s always a warm experience, like seeing your kid return from college.ĭarrick: As work got underway on the game’s narrative, we found that sliding back into the world and characters wasn’t as difficult as imagined. What was it like returning to the world and characters? However, the game gave us some new beats we hadn’t considered. In addition, Genndy had been on a near ten-year journey to finish Jack’s story, so the team’s thought was that we’ve finally done what we set out to do. The series culminated with the completion of Jack’s quest, returning to the past to undo the future that is Aku, so that didn’t leave room for much else to be explored. Then I got excited for Jack to live on past the show.ĭarrick: Returning to the world of Samurai Jack didn’t seem like much of a possibility after the season five finale. But then as things started to come together, I realized it was going to be quite different and of a more unique quality. So when the proposal for the game came up, initially I wasn’t excited because of my past experience. Genndy: I thought I was finished with Samurai Jack. As the game readies for release, Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky and series writer Darrick Bachman reflect on what it was like returning to the franchise after Jack’s dramatic series finale.ĭid you think you were coming back to Samurai Jack after the show ended?
Now, Samurai Jack returns once more this Friday for an all new video game, Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time. Genndy Tartakovsky’s epic vision of noble samurai’s heroic quest to undo evil immediately struck a chord with people around the world and would go on to spawn a legacy that still inspires legions of fans to this day. It has been an amazing road for Samurai Jack since it originally aired on Cartoon Network back in 2001.
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