Sengoku Basara (戦国BASARA) is a series of video games developed and published by Capcom, and a bigger media franchise based on it, including three anime series and an animated film. Its story is very loosely based on real events of the titular Sengoku era in the history of feudal Japan.
The original game in the series was released in 2005 for the PS2 as a "crowd-fighting" action game in the vein of Koei's similarly themed Samurai Warriors series. Devil Kings, an English-language version of the game featured an altered gameplay and a completely different, supposedly more western audience-oriented fantasy story with original characters. It was never used again due to the negative response the localization received from critics and consumers.
Sengoku Basara 2 was the 2006 sequel, also for the PS2. The game was ported to the Wii.
Sengoku Basara X was a 2D fighting game by Arc System Works, creators of the Guilty Gear series, made in 2008 for the arcades and ported for the PS2 later the same year.
A 2009 PSP-exclusive title.
The third game in the main series, released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Wii. An updated version, Sengoku Basara 3: UTAGE, was released in 2011.
Released for the PSP in Japan on July 21, 2011.
The fourth game in the main series. It was released on January 23, 2014 for PlayStation 3.
A spin-off game focusing on the life of one of the series' main characters, Sanada Yukimura, released August 25, 2016.