At the turn of the century, Genndy Tartakovsky had already cemented his status as cartoon superstar with the megahit of Dexter's Laboratory and co-developing the incredibly profitable Powerpuff Girls. After these successful ventures, he wanted to explore daring territory, a show that would be suspenseful, full of visceral action, some dark themes, and still retaining a tasteful amount of comedy on the mix. That show would be Samurai Jack. Much like our titular hero, we warp towards the future, just about 20 years. Adult Swim would present a long waited final season to the show without the usual restraints of children's programming all while still keeping the signature style it is recognized for. And then a video game based on these events is announced.

Battle Through Time is a 3D action game with a style that is considerably similar to the likes of Devil May Cry, with a skill tree, many kinds of weapons to choose from, and without a combo system. Alas, it is unfortunate that the variety of enemies you fight in this adaptation is pretty scarce, and there are plenty of features that only feel kind of basic when compared to the likes of many predecessors of the past couple decades.

So is it a bad game? Not really, in fact I would say it's easily the best video game ever made under this license, to which unfortunately it might not be a bar too high to pass. This was developed by Soleil, a Japanese studio that does handle plenty of licensed titles as well. They did do a pretty good job with this title, alas I suppose it is not absolutely stellar.

It simply could be much better, it turned out just above okay, I suppose.