Shadow Warrior 3 Review - Lowbrow Lo Wang
I cut through three yokai with a lightning-infused sword strike before dashing away and equipping a grenade launcher that takes out another two with a satisfying boom. Aiming for the strongest of the bunch, a massive beast that slams his fist on the ground, I grapple hook towards him and unleash a finisher that takes him out in one move and temporarily gives me a hammer made out of bone to ruin the day of the remaining enemies. I feel like a god. No, even better - I feel like the Doom Slayer.
That lasts until protagonist Lo Wang makes yet another dick joke, or sings along to Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang, or talks about demon farts, or does anything else to send me into a cringe so hard that Wang’s katana would have trouble cutting through it.
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That’s been my whole experience with Shadow Warrior 3 - five hours of punchy, fast-paced, Doom-style combat that is constantly brought down by the game itself. It builds on previous entries, but it can’t stop itself from diving too far into trying to cringe its player out. Well, I hope it’s trying to be this unfunny.
Shadow Warrior 3 takes place shortly after the second game, where former ninja and current twat Lo Wang summoned a dragon that proceeds to cause the apocalypse. To fix his mess, he teams up with former rival Zilla to try and find a way to stop the dragon and save the world. That summary is about as interesting as it gets, and at least I didn’t fill it with shit jokes.
No matter what you’re doing, Lo Wang is constantly narrating the action and stuffing it with pop culture references and unfunny remarks that only serve to distract you. The rest of the cast are slightly less smarmy but don’t worry,
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