Ambitious, troubled, and carrying more weight than any game should. Daikatana puts swordsmaster Hiro Miyamoto in possession of a legendary blade with the power to open time itself, pulling him through ancient Greece, medieval Norway, a plague-ridden future San Francisco, and 2030 Japan. Developed at Ion Storm under years of chaotic production, the game arrived with a reputation it could never fully shake, though it contains genuine ideas about time-travel FPS design that its execution only partially realized. Its place in PC gaming history is secured less by quality than by the mythology around its making.