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Zilla Industries is also its own league in the underworld. This is where Lo Wang comes in, as he was one of their best assassins. Wang became an employee of sinister Japanese conglomerate Zilla Industries. It seems to be an early-XX th-century-style zaibatsu. That is, a highly integrated financial/industrial powerhouse with deep ties with the Japanese military and government. One gets the impression that he moved to Japan as a young teenager. Perhaps to join Japanese relatives after losing his parents. Lo Wang apparently grew up in China. He mentions studying tai chi as a young boy. The Shadow Realm is ruled by a caste of immortal demons, the Ancients. These have stronger supernatural powers than run-of-the-mill demons.

It is populated by demons, though these aren’t necessarily evil. A lot of it looks like dismal, barren, jagged mountains where gravity doesn’t necessarily apply. There’s a fair bit of lava involved. The Realm is a sort of feudal Japanese hell dimension Other realms of existence that are not our universe. Much of the action in Shadow Warrior occurs after contact with the Shadow Realm. Hence the name. Wang’s comics collection also hints at a different world. There are 1920s Belgian bande dessinée (but horror-themed), and strange crossovers between various types of Silver Age Super-hero comics from the late 1950s to the early 1970s manga, US comics and various European comics, etc. It’s intriguing. Serious Sam, Hard Reset, Hotline Miami and the like are big hits at the arcade and in comics.

There seems to be a sense in society that the supernatural exists. But it’s not overt.ĭevolver video games are anachronistically huge in that world. Like with many of those stories, it’s almost entirely masculine. Younger viewers might associate the 1970s grindhouse cinema style with Quentin Tarantino (say, Kill Bill). This would be about right for Shadow Warrior. It also seems to be a much more violent, squalid version of reality where life is cheap. Think vintage men’s adventure periodicals, or grindhouse cinema.

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The music Lo Wang listens to is mid-1980s hair metal. He references Mickey Rourke as a major movie star, which also means the mid-1980s. There are brick-like car phones. There are VHS tapes strewn about. Etc.Īlso, Polish cigarettes. Everybody knows that Polish cigarettes were huge in 1980s Japan. Everybody ! Other aspects There are technological anachronisms (chiefly the weapons), which seem to stem from Zilla Industries. But most other tech markers, such as the cars and the video game arcades, point to the early or mid-1980s. It is closer to Sonny-Chiba -style grindhouse 1970s Japanese action movies. This means a version of the country that is poorer, and with more traditional trappings, than modern Japan. Shadow Warrior (2013) doesn’t quite take place in the real world.

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Wang might perform such feats as :Īvailable for download on Amazon. Not long after the game starts, Lo Wang is endowed with the ability to use life energy (chi ) for combat purposes. This is done through Ancient demon magic.ĭuring the early chapters (and depending on your in-game character build), Mr. He actually owns two – one black, one white. He will routinely drive it at 90mph (150 km/h) on winding countryside roads. Wang drives a 1970s Nissan Fairlady Z (aka the Datsun 240z) sport coupé. It was an early but successful Japanese stab at a Porsche-style sports car.

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He also presumably has full tactical webbing, given how much ammo he carries.