Bakumatsu Rock Is The Wildest Music Game You’ll Hear About This Year

Feudal Japan is a hot setting and video game companies have different takes on it from the romance series Hakuoki to Sega’s more RPG-like Yakuza Restoration. Senran Kagura maker Marvelous AQL has a wild spin on ther era called Bakumatsu Rock.

Set in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Shogunate is using the Heaven’s Song to brainwash people and rule the country. Freedom fighters are "rockers" led by Sakamoto Ryoma. Famitsu says Bakumatsu Rock is a rhythm game and it’s coming to PSP on February 27.

Here are some of the characters and voice actors confirmed for the game:

Sakamoto Ryoma (Kisho Taniyama)

Takasugi Shinsaku (Tatsuhisa Suzuki)

Kido Takayoshi (Showtaro Morikubo)

Okita Soji (Kensho Ono)

Hijikata Toshizo (Toshiyuki Morikawa)