

While Sengoku Basara remains popular in Japan, it has gained some popularity in other Asian countries such as Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Sengoku Basara is considered to be popular in Japan with the franchise getting good reviews and sales, winning some awards, becoming a cultural phenomenon, having the video games being cited as an example of games as art, and gaining a big and passionate fanbase. Its story is loosely based on real events of the titular Sengoku period in the history of feudal Japan. Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes will be priced lower than the original in Japan, potentially giving it positioning as a budget title.Sengoku Basara ( 戦国BASARA) is a series of video games developed and published by Capcom, and a bigger media franchise based on it, including four anime shows, an anime movie, a live action show, a magazine series, a trading card game, and numerous drama CDs, light novels, manga, and stage plays. The Wii version won't have special waggle controls, though, as the development team decided against this from the start of development.

However, there were some concerns over the state of the PS2 game market at the time of the game's release, prompting the decision to bring it to the Wii. While the game is coming to both the PS2 and Wii, it was originally scheduled just for the PS2.

Joining all of this will be a few new modes of play and a few tweaks to the gameplay. All the playable characters from Basara 2 will also be available, of course. Titled Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes, the update is coming to both the Wii and PS2 this winter in Japan.Ĭapcom seems to be planning on a good number of additions for the game, which producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi says serves to "complete Sengoku Basara 2." Players will now be able to take control of characters who were not playable in the original, including Nagamasa Asai, Oichi, and Kojuurou Katakura. The Wii entry in the Sengoku Basara series is actually an updated version of Sengoku Basara 2.
