While watching it, we have to give a thumbs up to the heavy presence of samurai (if you're not up on your history, samurai are classier, less sneaky ninjas). There's one slight problem, though: We hope we're able to get past it, put when we watch Yakuza 3 stuff it's hard to put Onimusha and (more troubling) Genjii out of our minds. Anybody else?
While watching it, we have to give a thumbs up to the heavy presence of samurai (if you're not up on your history, samurai are classier, less sneaky ninjas). There's one slight problem, though: We hope we're able to get past it, put when we watch Yakuza 3 stuff it's hard to put Onimusha and (more troubling) Genjii out of our minds. Anybody else?
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 12:39PM LaughingTarget said
Japanese rap and goofy animations in feudal Japan ... strange combination.
Anyway, this'll be a renter for me.
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Anyway, this'll be a renter for me.
Posted: Jan 1st 2008 12:47PM TheAnimist said
If your into anime, Samurai Champloo was freakin' awesome.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:19PM Demon G Sides said
I hate Anime and Samurai Champloo is still the shit.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:14PM (Unverified) said
This looks pretty cool, from the short trailer. I am not in any way opposed to more cool samurai games, Yakuza focused or not.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:32PM (Unverified) said
I have nary a bad word for the idea of a Fuedal Japan crime drama game. And while it's easy to make parallels to Onimusha (great game series), I just cannot connect Genji.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:39PM (Unverified) said
It's important to remember that modern yakuza see themselves as a logical successors to the samurai, in a way that the salarymen are not. It's a way of preserving that culture of class difference in a modern Japan, where an occupying United States arguably forced democracy and egalitarianism on people who didn't ask for it. It makes perfect sense to me that one of Kazuma's ancestors might have been a samurai and might have had experiences that are shaping his descendants' fate.
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:56PM (Unverified) said
It's also important to remember that Yakuza's were most infuential when gaining fallen Samurai who were embittered by the massive lose of influence and power the end of the Daimyo era of Japan brought about.
After all, you have men who were able to cut people down on a whim and help control over most matters suddenly being told they are powerless and can't even carry swords in public anymore.
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After all, you have men who were able to cut people down on a whim and help control over most matters suddenly being told they are powerless and can't even carry swords in public anymore.
Posted: Jan 1st 2008 1:53PM (Unverified) said
Remember that the series is called Ryu Ga Kotoku in japan. And you get to play as Mushashi Miyamoto in this game! (The most famous samurai)
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Posted: Jan 1st 2008 8:58PM ThornedVenom said
I assume that the characters' faces were modeled after real ones.
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