Samurai Jack creator says Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time is the game he always wanted to make, and isn't a cash grab

Samurai Jack got two game adaptations over the years, with one being on GBA and the other on GameCube. Neither game really lit the world on fire, and Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky knows that. That's why at PAX East 2020, he wanted to make sure fans knew that the upcoming Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time was the real deal.

“This is the game that I always wanted back then because you want to travel the worlds, you want to meet all of the characters. Before it was just like some generic land with I think one henchmen or something. It was just very low rent. You just have a game engine, you throw it in, change it a little bit, and it’s done. This one has the real voices. Everything is authentic to it, and it’s got all the landscapes that we know and that we want to see and it’s a big adventure.

For me it was, are we gonna do it right? Are we gonna have a full commitment? You don’t want it to just be a cash grab, right? That’s the worst thing. If it’s done and approached from the right point of view, and the folks at Adult Swim were always so supportive, and I think they wanted that too. They didn’t want it to just be opportunistic. So I think for me it was if it came from a sincere place, then it was time to do it.”