NORYANG: DEADLY SEA (2024)

After seven long years of war, the Koreans can finally heave a sigh of relief in 1598. With his last, dying breath, old Toyotomi Hideyoshi orders the retreat of the Japanese fleet out of Korean waters. But Admiral Yi, chief commander on the Korean decks, is not one to let the enemy slip away to their wives, children and homeland without one final, spectacular ass-whooping. The resulting game of advanced Battleship sees scheming and clever diversions galore on both sides, with royal amounts of shameless deceit and betrayal. Admiral Yi surely wouldn’t have said no to a couple of drones to help him make his tough decisions, seeing as he had to make do with a single Japanese turncoat to spy on the enemy fleet.

Han-min Kim really gave it his all to brush up our knowledge of Korean history. After ROARING CURRENTS (BIFFF 2015) and HANSAN: RISING DRAGON (BIFFF 2022), we simply couldn’t resist serving you this last installment of the trilogy centered on Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s epic adventures at sea. The result is a spectacular symphony of splintered hulls, snapping masts, salvos of flares piercing the skies heavy with gunpowder, the endless flow of screaming commands on deck and the sea below, red with blood. So, chaaaarge!