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Sengoku Basara is a video game for PlayStation 2 first published July 21, 2005 by Capcom. It is called Devil Kings in the west.

Visually similar to the Dynasty Warriors Series, Sengoku Basara takes place during the Sengoku Period, or Warring States Period, during which Japan was split into many minor states battling over power and land. The game features two historical warlords as the main characters: Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune.

Actors

The game will features voice actors from the acclaimed Soul Caliber Series as well as the famous Final Fantasy X (The names in the parentheses are the name of the characters in Devil Kings).

Producer - Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Resident Evil 4)
Character Design - Makoto Tsuchibayashi (Devil May Cry)
Date Masamune (Azure Dragon)- Kazuya Nakai (InuYasha, Gundam Seed, Final Fantasy X, Samurai Champloo)
Sanada Yukimura (Scorpio)- Souichirou Hoshi (Soul Caliber, Gundam Seed)
Oda Nobunaga (Devil King)- Norio Wakamoto (King of Fighters, Cowboy Bebop, Dragonball Z, X-Men)
Nohime (Lady Butterfly)- Yurika Hino
Uesugi Kenshin (Frost)- Paku Romi
Takeda Shingen (Red Minotaur)- Tesshou Genda (Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Record of Lodoss War)
Itsuki (Puff)- Tomoko Kawakami (Angelic Layer, InuYasha, Card Captor Sakura, Fushigi Yuugi)
Zabii (Xavi, short for Xavier) (Q-Ball)- Kouzou Shioya
Mori Ranmaru (Hornet)- Hiroki Shimowada
Akechi Mitsuhide (Reaper)- Sho Hayami (Dragon Ball Z, Trigun, Record of Lodoss War)
Kasuga (Venus)- Natsuko Kuwatani (Getbackers)
Maeda Toshiie (Lark)- Tomohiro Tsuboi
Matsu (Bramble)- Yuuko Kaida
Sarutobi Sasuke (Talon)- Takehito Koyasu (Initial D, Gundam Seed, Gundam Wing, Excel Saga)
Theme song (Crosswise) by T.M.Revolution (http://www.tm-revolution.com/)

Interview

An extract from interview from http://www.IGN.com with Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi:

:Kobayashi: In Japan, Devil Kings is called Sengoku Basara, and it focuses on Japanese history in the same sense that Dynasty Warriors focuses on Chinese history. So it's similar in that sense, but with a Capcom style, a Capcom flair to it. We took the concept, and said, "What can we do to differentiate this to make this different from the Dynasty Warriors games?" And we decided the secret maybe lay in some other games Capcom has done. We said, "Let's give the characters a kind of Devil May Cry flair -- some really cool moves, like the kind of things you might see in Devil May Cry. Let's the characters and make them all vastly and distinctly different from one another, like Street Fighter II." That's the Japanese version. Then, we said, "Okay, let's release it in North America -- what can we do to make it different again?" So we said, "Okay, we'll make it dark." Call it Devil Kings. The main character sold his soul to the devil. We'll darken up the background, give more moves, more ability to power your character up, and things like that for the American market.

:IGN: Plus it's not historically accurate?

:Kobayashi: The Japanese version of the game is based on Japanese history. There are some fantasy elements that didn't actually happen, of course, but enough of it is there. With the U.S. version, we've taken that element out entirely. Some of the backgrounds may retain that eastern flair. Many of them don't and are brand new; many of the enemies are brand new; and it's no longer based around the idea of feudal Japan at all. That part of the game has now been changed to be darker, devilish.

Trivia

Many of the chracters in this game are based off warriors in the Warring Staes of Japan. All of their identities will be listed in due time. Here are the current known identities:

Devil King-Oda Nobunaga

Azure Dragon-Date Masamune

Scorpio-Sanada Yukimura

Venus-Kasuga

Lady Buuterfly-Nouhime (Lady Noh)

Red Minotaur-Takeda Shingen

Frost-Uesugi Kenshin

Talon-Sarutobi Sasuke

Hornet-Ranmaru Mori

Puff-Itsuki

Q-Ball-Zabi

Iron OX-Honda Tadakatsu

Reaper-Akechi Mitsuhide

Lark-Maeda Toshiie

Bramble-Matsu

Zaan-Shimazu Yoshihiro

Irdene-Tokugawa Ieyasu

Orwik-Hojo Ujimasa

Kahz-Mori Motonari

Muri-Imagawa Yoshimoto

Arslan-Chosokabe Motochika

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