A) I had to get better and not suck so much the next time and B) Way of the Samurai 4 almost has a Roguelike element to it as any experience in martial art styles and weapon forms are kept and carried forward along with a few other little things on your next attempt at life.

Once faced with the dreaded game over screen I realized one of two things. I faced the stalker while being barehanded and lost. I accidentally chose dialog in the opening fight making myself surrender as I tried to quickly yell a taunt, was then tied up and thrown onto train tracks, saved but lost everything that I carried, and then picked a fight with a side quest mark after having told a woman being stalked that I would up put a stop to it. This took me a bit by surprise the first time that it happened as I had barely gotten my feet wet so to speak. If you fight and your enemy and lose, you’re Dead. There is no goofing around for this samurai and his weapons.

While a lot of the dialog, character personalities, and random townsfolk fall into the weird, fun and quirky categories, combat takes itself very seriously. While the basics may be simple with light and heavy attacks, dodging and blocking, putting them into play will be an entirely different story and will take time to get right.

Then again, considering that she teaches you both basic and advanced moves by yelling at you as to how to do them… I seriously wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley as she knows what she’s doing. Guess I wasn’t the weirdest person there with all the British wearing their dresses, three piece suits, and top hats.īefore being left entirely to your own devices, there is a prologue that offers to teach players the basics in the form of being told what to do by a common townswoman. I eventually found a long pipe to go with that as I strode around bare foot, surprisingly never being looked at twice. I forwent the Kimono and traditional Japanese underwear for a pair of blue and white striped modern day boxers. Never taking itself seriously, there is a lot of fun to be had – especially if you don’t mind the crazy characters and townspeople that you can run into while strolling about the town in nothing more than boxer shorts. I have to preface this by saying that there is just about nothing serious in the tone of Way of the Samurai 4, other than the time period and the changes that Japan was going through.

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