Yeah, Shadow Warrior is kind of a racist fever dream. In one level a background element is a menu in a Chinese restaurant – CREAM OF SUM JUNG GAI, it offers. You kill a giant demonic sumo wrestler boss, and his farts are lethal. Lo Wang remarks: YOU WANT WASH WANG, OR WATCH WANG WASH WANG? The anime babe pulls out a machine gun and opens fire on him. You find a sexy anime babe showering behind a waterfall. Next level: the dojo of Lo Wang’s master, ‘Master Leep’. You find fortune cookies in the levels, which give out pithy advice in broken English, like ‘Man Who Buys Drowned Cat Is Paying For Wet Pussy’: ANCIENT CHINESE SECRET, Lo Wang helpfully tells you. Lo Wang can recover health by punching wing chun training dummies. LOOK, YOU COMING APART, our hero cries, fighting an enemy that’s a demon suicide bomber wearing a conical hat. Again that horrible yellow-face voice: I LIKE SWORD. He throws shuriken at enemies and carries a katana – wait, isn’t this dude Chinese? You cut a demon in half with a sword. Or is it Hong Kong? Or mainland China? There’s all kinds of characters on the walls, and anime posters here and there but also jokes about Chinese street food and bits of architecture from both cultures scattered about. Lo Wang breaks out of the dojo, into a pretty good Build Engine recreation of a Tokyo street. And you start to feel a bit off about things. Our hero replies again YOU NO MESS WITH LO WANG, obviously a line they thought was pretty funny. A demon guy busts in, shouting ZILLA SENDS HIS REGARDS, LO WANG. You choose your difficulty – WHO WANTS SOME WANG, he asks. HAHA, YOU NO MESS WITH LO WANG, he proclaims, an obvious white man doing a horrible Asian accent. Cheesy rock music with an oriental theme, our hero in 3D render jumping at the screen. Sure, ‘Lo Wang’ is some dumb cheap pun name, but he looks kinda cool, this guy, and hell, maybe it’s worth a try. Lo Wang, looks directly at you, sneering, a bare-chested Asian man with a slender beard, a bald head, and a sword in one hand and a severed demon head in the other. FROM THE CREATORS OF DUKE NUKEM 3D, the box art proclaims, LO WANG IS SHADOW WARRIOR.
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