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A Samurai Gunman Wanders Onto The Wild West Of PSN

By Spencer . January 17, 2012 . 3:59pm

Years before Samurai Western was made, UEP Systems made Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman. This PsOne title is literally East meets West, the game’s protagonist wields a samurai sword and a revolver.

 

 

The company behind Cool Borders closed their doors years ago, but Rising Zan lives on. Studio Zan, the company behind Overturn and Gachitora: The Roughneck Teacher in High School, scooped up the rights to the game and re-released it on PlayStation Network. If you have a Japanese account you can grab Rising Zan in the Game Archives section for 600 yen ($7).

A Samurai Gunman Wanders Onto The Wild West Of PSN


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  • MrSirFeatherFang

    I’ve seen this video before, but watching this again makes me want to instantly buy this!

  • Göran Isacson

    … I wanted to go YESSSCH, YEESSSCH, and then I saw it was just for Japan.

    Then I :’( :d instead. darnit. This game has the best intro ever and I want to play it again. Western version, that is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOK8EPsNDI

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Valtiel-Ikari/1217218156 Valtiel Ikari

    SUPER ULTRA SEXY HERO ZAN!!! XD
    this game was one of the funniest one I can remember back on the PSone, it was hilarious and just plain good time!

  • Aoshi00

    Cool song by Kageyama Hironobu :)  I never played this game, but remember Watsuki mentioned it in his freetalks a lot.. being the author of Kenshin and Gun Blaze West.. he even did an illustration of this samurai gunman..

  • http://www.genkaibreak.com Code

    Ohh I remember Samurai Western >w<' it was the last game Atlus sent to me, before I had to close my site down T3T' despite all it's flaws and quirks, it's B-movie flare made it enjoyable and memorable owo' It'd be great to see something like this arrive on the imports section o3o'

  • PrinceHeir

    lol remember this game playing the heck out back in the day.

    though the opening was english and was cheesy as hell XD

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOK8EPsNDI 

    “Rising ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!”

    shame still no western PSN release :P

    • countupyoursins

      This game is for all of you who want to take on evil bigger than your gun.

  • http://bluehighwind.blogspot.com/ BlueHighwind

    Oh no, its only Japanese.

    Damn, if this were an English option I would buy this game at the first chance.

    RISING ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

    • Göran Isacson

      SAMURAI GUUUUNMAAAAN!!

  • rinalicat

    *starts dancing to the song* I’d actually buy this if it came to Europe!

  • http://photovoltaik.bandcamp.com/ Ujn Hunter

    Niiice. Didn’t know about this game… I loved Samurai Western… just bought this game!

  • countupyoursins

    Sweet! Hopefully a US/EU release follows! This is one of my favorite PSN games.

    “I’m not Johnny. I’M THE SUPER SEXY HERO,  ZAN”

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