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2018 · Action · Adventure

Bastard!

Have you ever thought about the price of being good, even in bad times? Bastard is an adventure that puts an emphasis on decision-making. A realistic medieval world is waiting for you - tactical combat and a detective story included. And most importantly: people whose problems and questions have been the same for centuries.

Released: 14 May 2018
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action Adventure Dark fantasy Indie Post-apocalyptic Role-playing Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: Jump Comics
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Historical Warfare
Country: Japan

About

Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (Japanese: BASTARD!! -暗黒の破壊神-, Hepburn: Basutādo!! Ankoku no Hakaishin; lit.

'Bastard!! The Dark God of Destruction') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazushi Hagiwara. It began its serialization in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1988, after debuting with a pilot one-shot in that magazine in 1987, and has continued irregularly in the seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump since 2000, with its latest chapter released in 2010. As of 2012, 27 collected tankōbon volumes have been released.

Keywords

knights
medieval
multiple endings
moral decisions
narrative adventure

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Development

Kazushi Hagiwara aspired to become a manga artist after reading Go Nagai's Devilman and popular shōnen manga magazines during his youth. Following his departure from high school, he served as an assistant to Izumi Matsumoto on the Weekly Shōnen Jump series Kimagure Orange Road at Shueisha, concurrently developing his own one-shot stories. In 1987, Hagiwara contributed to a Shueisha initiative designed to showcase new artists. His dark fantasy one-shot Wizard!!

〜爆炎の征服者〜; "Wizard: Conqueror of Explosive Flames") was selected, performed favorably in reader surveys, and earned a weekly serialization. Hagiwara subsequently adapted the sword and sorcery setting and characters from Wizard!! , which debuted in Shōnen Jump in 1988.