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Taking cues from ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and it's quasi-remake, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Samurai Western'' blends the storyline of both films into an East-meet-West type of setting, where the player is a badass katana-wielding samurai wandering into a Western town in 1800s America filled with hostile bandidos.
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Taking cues from ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and it's its quasi-remake, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Samurai Western'' blends the storyline of both films into an East-meet-West type of setting, where the player is a badass katana-wielding samurai wandering into a Western town in 1800s America filled with hostile bandidos.
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--> They say that the way of the warrior is to seek death...
''Samurai Western'' is a 2005 HackAndSlash action game made by Acquire Entertainment for the USefulNotes/PlayStation2, one which is a Western... starring a badass samurai. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]].
''Samurai Western'' is a 2005 HackAndSlash action game made by Acquire Entertainment for the USefulNotes/PlayStation2, one which is a Western... starring a badass samurai. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]].
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* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In one of his opening monologues, Goldberg claims to be an open-minded man before immediately calling Gojiro's race "inferior".
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Overweight midget mooks who carries barrels on their backs specializes in throwing explosives, which they have an unlimited supply of.
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Overweight midget short mooks who carries barrels on their backs specializes in throwing explosives, which they have an unlimited supply of.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Goldberg and Jean try to sound like gentlemen, but their words do very little to hide the fact that they're power-hungry thugs. In the case with Goldberg, he tries to assure Gojiro that he's a reasonable man while [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain openly calling Gojiro's race inferior]].
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* InformedAbility: Rando's struggles for most of the game come from Goldberg defeating him using a gun, and a point is made about how Japan is behind the times and runs the risk of falling to this advancement in weaponry. However, in gameplay ''and'' cutscenes, it's repeatedly shown that GunsAreWorthless, with Gojiro cutting through swathes of gunmen with little trouble.
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* SugarWiki/SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Though still obviously accented, both Gojiro and Rando's voice actors not only sound comprehensible when speaking English but get the emotional intonations down.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Goldberg drops all politeness after Gojiro gets through to Rando and earns him a RedemptionThroughDeath, openly insulting Rando's last moments in front of his brother and fully expressing his contempt for Gojiro and Rando's race.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Goldberg drops all politeness after Gojiro gets through to defeats Rando and earns him a RedemptionThroughDeath, undoes Goldberg's corrupting influence, openly insulting Rando's last moments in front of his brother and fully expressing his contempt for Gojiro and Rando's race.
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* TheCorruptor: It was Goldberg who is responsible for Rando fleeing to the West, as he had broken Rando's spirit by defeating him. Goldberg tries to push Rando further into forsaking all his principles and is positively livid when Gojiro manages to get through to his brother.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Goldberg drops all politeness after Gojiro gets through to Rando and earns him a RedemptionThroughDeath, openly insulting Rando's last moments in front of his brother and fully expressing his contempt for Gojiro and Rando's race.
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* ClarkKentOutfit: Goldberg looks cartoonishly stout and rotund for most of the game. Then he takes for his suit for the final battle, revealing that he is positively ''jacked'' underneath.
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* ClarkKentOutfit: Goldberg looks cartoonishly stout and rotund for most of the game. Then he takes for off his suit for the final battle, revealing that he is positively ''jacked'' underneath.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Donald initially believes himself to be the protagonist of a traditional Western, a newcomer given the position of sheriff who has to prove himself against a great evil threatening the town. What he doesn't realize at first is that his employer, Goldberg, is the great evil, while the man he was told was the threat, Gojiro, is actually the hero. Donald is quickly set straight after he finds out about the townspeople Goldberg has enslaved.
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* ClarkKentOutfit: Goldberg looks cartoonishly stout and rotund for most of the game. Then he takes for his suit for the final battle, revealing that he is positively ''jacked'' underneath.
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* FacialHorror: "Faceless" is rather aptly named, considering what we can see behind his mask is nothing but horribly burnt flesh. He also seems to have no lips.
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* MixAndMatchWeapon: During his boss fight, Goldberg uses a bladed gauntlet that can fire out more blades.
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Gojiro Kiryu is a wandering samurai on the trail of his brother, Rando, whom had fled Japan into the west. Learing that Rando had escaped into a dusty western town, Gojiro decides to seek his answers there only to find out the town is ruled by a corrupted land tycoon named Goldberg and his army of thugs. And thus like every samurai, Gojiro draws his trusty katana and slaughters his way out.
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Gojiro Kiryu is a wandering samurai on the trail of his brother, Rando, whom had fled Japan into to the west. Learing West. Learning that Rando had escaped into a dusty western Western town, Gojiro decides to seek his answers there only to find out the town is ruled by a corrupted land tycoon named Goldberg and his army of thugs. And thus like every samurai, Gojiro draws his trusty katana and slaughters his way out.
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* DualBoss: Killer and Nathan, a pair of quick-moving midgets that bounces all over the place and tries attacking Gojiro from both sides during their boss battle.
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* DepravedDwarf: Killer and Nathan are a pair of bloodthirsty little people who oversee Goldberg's slaves and act as a DualBoss.
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* GenreRefugee: Besides the story being about a samurai wandering into a Western, there's also Donald, who acts like a Blaxploitation character complete with mild JiveTurkey and a FunnyAfro.
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* SamuraiCowboy: Well, no doy. Gojiro himself is a samurai in a western setting, on the trail of his brother Rando.
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* SamuraiCowboy: Well, no doy. Gojiro himself is a samurai in a western Western setting, on the trail of his brother Rando.Rando, who also qualifies, albeit as an antagonistic example. Unlike most examples, Gojiro never takes up a gun, though Rando does.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Donald, an overweight Mexican gunslinger who can move pretty fast despite his bulging belly (that jiggles everytime he moves during gameplay). He can even perform a RollingAttack that knocks Gojiro off the ground druing his boss fight.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Donald, an overweight Mexican African-American gunslinger who can move pretty fast despite his bulging belly (that jiggles everytime every time he moves during gameplay). He can even perform a RollingAttack that knocks Gojiro off the ground druing during his boss fight.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Jean, the [[TheDragon dragon]] to Goldberg, a muscular, balding African-American brute who repeatedly attacks Gojiro with a {{gatling|good}} gun.
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* ScaryBlackMan: Jean, the [[TheDragon dragon]] to Goldberg, a muscular, balding African-American French-African brute who repeatedly attacks Gojiro with a {{gatling|good}} gun.
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* FrenchJerk: Jean is Goldberg's arrogant enforcer and appears to be French judging by his name and accent.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Goldberg sees Gojiro as a backwards barbarian and calls him one openly. Though he also employs his brother Rando, and Juan for their [[PragmaticVillainy skills.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Goldberg sees Gojiro as a backwards barbarian and calls him one openly. Though he also employs his brother Rando, and Juan [[ScaryBlackMan Jean]] for their [[PragmaticVillainy skills.]]
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*MsFanservice: The barmaid, [[https://www.acquire.co.jp/samurai_w_e/down_02.html Claudia]], is a [[BuxomBeautyStandard stacked]] [[EverybodyLovesBlondes blonde]] with plenty of cleavage in both the [[CleavageWindow front]] and [[ExaggeratedTrope back]] of her dress.
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* {{Gorn}}: Twice with every onscreen kill. The amount of blood spilled in this game can create a small river.
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--> They say that the way of the warrior is to seek death...
''Samurai Western'' is a 2005 HackAndSlash action game made by Acquire Entertainment for the USefulNotes/PlayStation2, one which is a Western... starring a badass samurai. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]].
Taking cues from ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and it's quasi-remake, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Samurai Western'' blends the storyline of both films into an East-meet-West type of setting, where the player is a badass katana-wielding samurai wandering into a Western town in 1800s America filled with hostile bandidos.
Gojiro Kiryu is a wandering samurai on the trail of his brother, Rando, whom had fled Japan into the west. Learing that Rando had escaped into a dusty western town, Gojiro decides to seek his answers there only to find out the town is ruled by a corrupted land tycoon named Goldberg and his army of thugs. And thus like every samurai, Gojiro draws his trusty katana and slaughters his way out.
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!! So it was in the West, where Gojiro sets off on a great journey...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Donald, an overweight Mexican gunslinger who can move pretty fast despite his bulging belly (that jiggles everytime he moves during gameplay). He can even perform a RollingAttack that knocks Gojiro off the ground druing his boss fight.
* BarBrawl: Two stages are set in a bar, where Gojiro tries seeking answers... only for Goldberg's mooks to suddenly appear. Cue intense brawl where Gojiro can fling the bar's stools and tables into enemies. The second of these even has a DualBoss, Killer and Nathan.
* BigBad: Goldberg the tycoon, whose private army enslaved the entire town. He's no slouch as the FinalBoss either.
* BullyingADragon: In his first cutscene, Gojiro walking into the deserted streets have him confronted by three of Goldberg's mooks. Who tries taunting Gojiro for being a stranger in town, until they realize they're facing a badass samurai OneManArmy.
--> '''Thug 1''': Hmmph! I bet I can make you talk! Eat lead!\\
[''shoots a few bullets at Gojiro, only for Gojiro to deflect his shot via katana almost effortlessly'']\\
'''Thug 2''': ...whoa? You think you... you can beat us with that overgrown knife?\\
'''Thug 3''': Let's get 'im boys!\\
[''cue Gojiro painting the town red with their blood and intestines with his katana'']
* CainAndAbel: Gojiro and Rando Kiryu, the former being a heroic samurai hunting for the latter who betrayed their clan and fled to America.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: While Gojiro himself have some ''serious'' skills with his katana, the opening cutscene depicts him facing off a few dozen gunmen, firearms (some automatic) trained at him, which they fire full-auto. Gojiro then shows off some flashy blade moves, and somehow deflects all two hundred bullets out of the air in two seconds. He's nowhere ''that'' invincible during gameplay.
* DualBoss: Killer and Nathan, a pair of quick-moving midgets that bounces all over the place and tries attacking Gojiro from both sides during their boss battle.
* DualWielding: As the stages progress, Gojiro can upgrade his equipment so that he's holding a second weapon besides his default katana (a ''tanto'', or another katana). To help him slice up twice the number of mooks, twice as fast.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Gojiro is introduced stepping into the screen in the intro. Then the camera pans outwards to reveal him facing off some mooks.
* FlashStep:
** Gojiro repeatedly does this to sidestep bullets, achieved by hitting the jump and slash button together. He even leaves behind a [[SpeedEchoes translucent afterimage]] of himself!
** Faceless has the ability to slide across the boss arena without even moving his legs, an ability he repeatedly displays while shooting at Gojiro. The only way to damage him in both his boss fights is ''stunning'' him and slice him apart before he recovers.
* GunsAreWorthless: Absolutely - should Gojiro suffer any hits from bullets, he'll suffer a ''fraction'' of health loss, which he shrugs off almost instantly before he resumes kicking ass. Shotguns can knock him over and do ''slightly'' more damage, while automatic weapons can stun him until he jumps aside, but they still pales compared to his katana that kills enemies in a handful of slices.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the FinishingMove Gojiro can execute, which divides a mook ''diagonally''. With glorious amounts of accompanying red.
* HighPressureBlood: Expect entire ''geysers'' of blood to come with each onscreen kill scored by Gojiro. Sometimes mooks can spray the wonderful red stuff for a mile as they stagger a bit before keeling over in death.
* HumanShield: The grab move allows Gojiro to use nearby mooks as meatshields.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Slain outlaws can sometimes drop steak, beer or assorted food. Which Gojiro can collect to boost his health. Somehow a drumstick can undo the damage of being hit by a dozen bullets.
* LoopholeAbuse: In the third and last battle against Jean, the villain challenged Gojiro to take him down once and for all, in a personal duel in the dawn, mano-on-mano. Gojiro answers the challenge, and finds Jean in the middle of the hills... before a dozen mooks suddenly appears from all sides. Jean's answer?
--> '''Jean''': Please don't think me as a coward. After all, this is a duel between you and my ''entire organization''. So it's only fair...
* NeverBareheaded: Besides weapons, Gojiro can upgrade his appearance to give himself fedoras, sombreros, masks and other accessories. These stays on regardless the amount of fighting, running, jumping and fighting he performs.
* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Most of the lower-ranked outlaws have firearms, and they still get slaughtered in droves by Gojiro who uses a katana.
* ParryingBullets: Gojiro can deflect bullets with his katana repeatedly during gameplay, and in fact demonstrates this ability right in the opening FMV. Though the opening is massively ''[[CutscenePowerToTheMax exeggerated]]'' where he deflects at least two hundred shots within ''seconds''.
* RecurringBoss: Jean needs to be defeated thrice in the game, the first time alone while [[FlunkyBoss flanked by mooks]] on the second and third. Faceless is fought twice.
* SamuraiCowboy: Well, no doy. Gojiro himself is a samurai in a western setting, on the trail of his brother Rando.
* ScaryBlackMan: Jean, the [[TheDragon dragon]] to Goldberg, a muscular, balding African-American brute who repeatedly attacks Gojiro with a {{gatling|good}} gun.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Jean's gear includes a human skull as a shoulderpad.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Overweight midget mooks who carries barrels on their backs specializes in throwing explosives, which they have an unlimited supply of.
* WantedPoster: In the game's end credits, the VA for all characters - Gojiro, Rando, Jean, everyone - are depicted as wanted posters.
* WouldHitAGirl: The fourth stage, "The Dying", begins with a cutscene of Goldberg's mooks brutally hitting an unarmed Anne Barret and throwing her to the ground while she begs for help, for shits and giggles. Gojiro then interrupts them in a BigDamnHeroes moment - cue the level starting.
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--> They say that the way of the warrior is to seek death...
''Samurai Western'' is a 2005 HackAndSlash action game made by Acquire Entertainment for the USefulNotes/PlayStation2, one which is a Western... starring a badass samurai. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Obviously]].
Taking cues from ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'' and it's quasi-remake, ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', ''Samurai Western'' blends the storyline of both films into an East-meet-West type of setting, where the player is a badass katana-wielding samurai wandering into a Western town in 1800s America filled with hostile bandidos.
Gojiro Kiryu is a wandering samurai on the trail of his brother, Rando, whom had fled Japan into the west. Learing that Rando had escaped into a dusty western town, Gojiro decides to seek his answers there only to find out the town is ruled by a corrupted land tycoon named Goldberg and his army of thugs. And thus like every samurai, Gojiro draws his trusty katana and slaughters his way out.
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!! So it was in the West, where Gojiro sets off on a great journey...
* {{Acrofatic}}: Donald, an overweight Mexican gunslinger who can move pretty fast despite his bulging belly (that jiggles everytime he moves during gameplay). He can even perform a RollingAttack that knocks Gojiro off the ground druing his boss fight.
* BarBrawl: Two stages are set in a bar, where Gojiro tries seeking answers... only for Goldberg's mooks to suddenly appear. Cue intense brawl where Gojiro can fling the bar's stools and tables into enemies. The second of these even has a DualBoss, Killer and Nathan.
* BigBad: Goldberg the tycoon, whose private army enslaved the entire town. He's no slouch as the FinalBoss either.
* BullyingADragon: In his first cutscene, Gojiro walking into the deserted streets have him confronted by three of Goldberg's mooks. Who tries taunting Gojiro for being a stranger in town, until they realize they're facing a badass samurai OneManArmy.
--> '''Thug 1''': Hmmph! I bet I can make you talk! Eat lead!\\
[''shoots a few bullets at Gojiro, only for Gojiro to deflect his shot via katana almost effortlessly'']\\
'''Thug 2''': ...whoa? You think you... you can beat us with that overgrown knife?\\
'''Thug 3''': Let's get 'im boys!\\
[''cue Gojiro painting the town red with their blood and intestines with his katana'']
* CainAndAbel: Gojiro and Rando Kiryu, the former being a heroic samurai hunting for the latter who betrayed their clan and fled to America.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: While Gojiro himself have some ''serious'' skills with his katana, the opening cutscene depicts him facing off a few dozen gunmen, firearms (some automatic) trained at him, which they fire full-auto. Gojiro then shows off some flashy blade moves, and somehow deflects all two hundred bullets out of the air in two seconds. He's nowhere ''that'' invincible during gameplay.
* DualBoss: Killer and Nathan, a pair of quick-moving midgets that bounces all over the place and tries attacking Gojiro from both sides during their boss battle.
* DualWielding: As the stages progress, Gojiro can upgrade his equipment so that he's holding a second weapon besides his default katana (a ''tanto'', or another katana). To help him slice up twice the number of mooks, twice as fast.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: Gojiro is introduced stepping into the screen in the intro. Then the camera pans outwards to reveal him facing off some mooks.
* FlashStep:
** Gojiro repeatedly does this to sidestep bullets, achieved by hitting the jump and slash button together. He even leaves behind a [[SpeedEchoes translucent afterimage]] of himself!
** Faceless has the ability to slide across the boss arena without even moving his legs, an ability he repeatedly displays while shooting at Gojiro. The only way to damage him in both his boss fights is ''stunning'' him and slice him apart before he recovers.
* GunsAreWorthless: Absolutely - should Gojiro suffer any hits from bullets, he'll suffer a ''fraction'' of health loss, which he shrugs off almost instantly before he resumes kicking ass. Shotguns can knock him over and do ''slightly'' more damage, while automatic weapons can stun him until he jumps aside, but they still pales compared to his katana that kills enemies in a handful of slices.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: One of the FinishingMove Gojiro can execute, which divides a mook ''diagonally''. With glorious amounts of accompanying red.
* HighPressureBlood: Expect entire ''geysers'' of blood to come with each onscreen kill scored by Gojiro. Sometimes mooks can spray the wonderful red stuff for a mile as they stagger a bit before keeling over in death.
* HumanShield: The grab move allows Gojiro to use nearby mooks as meatshields.
* HyperactiveMetabolism: Slain outlaws can sometimes drop steak, beer or assorted food. Which Gojiro can collect to boost his health. Somehow a drumstick can undo the damage of being hit by a dozen bullets.
* LoopholeAbuse: In the third and last battle against Jean, the villain challenged Gojiro to take him down once and for all, in a personal duel in the dawn, mano-on-mano. Gojiro answers the challenge, and finds Jean in the middle of the hills... before a dozen mooks suddenly appears from all sides. Jean's answer?
--> '''Jean''': Please don't think me as a coward. After all, this is a duel between you and my ''entire organization''. So it's only fair...
* NeverBareheaded: Besides weapons, Gojiro can upgrade his appearance to give himself fedoras, sombreros, masks and other accessories. These stays on regardless the amount of fighting, running, jumping and fighting he performs.
* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: Most of the lower-ranked outlaws have firearms, and they still get slaughtered in droves by Gojiro who uses a katana.
* ParryingBullets: Gojiro can deflect bullets with his katana repeatedly during gameplay, and in fact demonstrates this ability right in the opening FMV. Though the opening is massively ''[[CutscenePowerToTheMax exeggerated]]'' where he deflects at least two hundred shots within ''seconds''.
* RecurringBoss: Jean needs to be defeated thrice in the game, the first time alone while [[FlunkyBoss flanked by mooks]] on the second and third. Faceless is fought twice.
* SamuraiCowboy: Well, no doy. Gojiro himself is a samurai in a western setting, on the trail of his brother Rando.
* ScaryBlackMan: Jean, the [[TheDragon dragon]] to Goldberg, a muscular, balding African-American brute who repeatedly attacks Gojiro with a {{gatling|good}} gun.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Jean's gear includes a human skull as a shoulderpad.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Overweight midget mooks who carries barrels on their backs specializes in throwing explosives, which they have an unlimited supply of.
* WantedPoster: In the game's end credits, the VA for all characters - Gojiro, Rando, Jean, everyone - are depicted as wanted posters.
* WouldHitAGirl: The fourth stage, "The Dying", begins with a cutscene of Goldberg's mooks brutally hitting an unarmed Anne Barret and throwing her to the ground while she begs for help, for shits and giggles. Gojiro then interrupts them in a BigDamnHeroes moment - cue the level starting.
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