IIRC, they never wanted to do it. Rumor is the next setting is in China though
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I'm loving the resurgence of Feudal Japan games (let's gush about the setting)
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IIRC, they never wanted to do it. Rumor is the next setting is in China though
Seven Samurai The Video Game
Where is it?
Build a team of seven samurai, travel to different rice farm villages protecting them from waves of bandits. Some mercenaries will die, others will join your travels. End game, you vs or protect the emperor. Endless mode, waves upon waves of bandits. Hardcore mode, samurai dies, you progress to the next village with the survivors.
Fire Emblem x Borderlands anyone?
Art style:
Where is it?
Build a team of seven samurai, travel to different rice farm villages protecting them from waves of bandits. Some mercenaries will die, others will join your travels. End game, you vs or protect the emperor. Endless mode, waves upon waves of bandits. Hardcore mode, samurai dies, you progress to the next village with the survivors.
Fire Emblem x Borderlands anyone?
Art style:
Honestly do any of these samurai games do anything post-Sengoku Jidai? A good chunk of the best samurai movies and other media do the Edo period and Bakumatsu. A while ago there was one Bakumatsu game I heard about on the PS2 but it never got translated.
I held off buying Ghost for ages because I worried about this but I would say it has less fantastical elements than a Way of the Samurai game, outside of one special attack (and the multiplayer but I am not interested in that)
I would like to see the setting used more and seriously but I dont think we will get much beyond whatever the next Ghost will be. There was a nice period there of more realistic-ish type games with the early Way of the Samurai, Kengo series and one of my favs Fu-un Shinsengumi and its sequel but I guess there just isnt enough interest and people would rather fight monsters. Ghost at least didnt go much into that territory in the single player.
Honestly it's one of the few aesthetics that doesn't draw me in, and I have a hard time with it.
Always been a much more futuristic kinda person.
All that said though I'm super happy it made a resurgence, after the heavy use of post modern and apocalyptic through out most of PS3/360 and huge chunk of Ps4. I have stopped to gush at some of the visuals/moments in things like Ghost and Sekiro and it's nice to just see some variance in settings again.
Always been a much more futuristic kinda person.
All that said though I'm super happy it made a resurgence, after the heavy use of post modern and apocalyptic through out most of PS3/360 and huge chunk of Ps4. I have stopped to gush at some of the visuals/moments in things like Ghost and Sekiro and it's nice to just see some variance in settings again.
This is a good thread to pop up now, because I've been looking for two types of games in the Feudal Era games I've been looking to play to scratch the samurai itch after beating Tsushima: side scrolling beat em ups, and Musou/Warriors games. What's the best to take a look at in these regards?
Bonus points if anyone can tell me of a samurai themed turn based RPG that exists (I hear there's a Samurai Shodown RPG? But to my knowledge, it's never been translated).
Bonus points if anyone can tell me of a samurai themed turn based RPG that exists (I hear there's a Samurai Shodown RPG? But to my knowledge, it's never been translated).
I mean...it's not like they made a bad choice with Valhalla.
https://screenrant.com/ac-valhalla-sales-ubisoft-most-profitable-quarter-ever/
AC: Valhalla is head and shoulders above the sales of Ghosts. I'm sure they are weeping with this huge mistake.
The truth is, people from Europe and US are more interested in games & movies based on a more familiar historical setting.
And I am speaking about the general audience.
Tbh if we get assassin's creed in Asia I want China,India or Korea.
I would love to see an action-adventure or RPG in a pre-colonial Meso-American or South American setting.
Agreed, and I didn't mean to fault it - it's mostly grounded. Just the focus on some actual historical elements had me thinking they'd fully commit to a grounded experience and they didn't.
I think there's be a market for a real Samurai sim tho - along the lines of Kingdom Come (but like, not directed by a nazi)
Check out Oreshika for the vita. Since it's a turn based game it has more classes not just Samurai and it's a managing game on top of it. It's set before the Feudal era tho and is purely Japan fantasy (Yokai). Thematically it reminds me of Okami.
Actually, I'll just post a few screen-shot of it. lol
Is this a good time to bring up Toukiden 1 and 2? I felt this was a refreshing change of pace for Tecmo-Koei's Omega Force who focuses almost entirely on their Warriors series and did a take on the Monster Hunter genre. Both games are heavily Feudal Japan influenced and many of the monsters are mainly based on the typical Japanese Oni and other mythical creatures like Kappa or Onigumo (Giant Spider demons)
Someone above also mentioned Muramasa which is another fantastic take on the setting too.
Someone above also mentioned Muramasa which is another fantastic take on the setting too.