It is unusual that the first game to be announced for a Nintendo console isn’t made by Nintendo but this was the case with Ubisoft’s Wii exclusive Red Steel, which doesn’t seem like the normal type of game for a Nintendo console either. The basic plot of the game is that you are a young anonymous American engaged to a Japanese American called Miyu. Early on in the game she is kidnapped at the restaraunt where you were supposed to meet her father, you actually eventually turns out to be a yakuza boss who is in the possession of an important katana. This is stolen from him by a young yakuza member who kills Miyu’s father trying to do so. You then need to infiltrate the yakuza underground and avenge the death using the legendary sword, which I presume is called Red Steel, were the game gets its name from.

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