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i really wish they leaned into the history shit more its so strange how like. you could play this game as a westener and not really understand that almost everyone in the game is a Real Guy of some kind

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And weirdly tied into the genji and heike but taking place hundreds of years later. I'm torn between they assumed it was uninteresting to a global audience or they were focused on a domestic one that would already be at least somewhat aware of what they were doing

i think a big reason is they explicitly dont want to refer to the events of the prior games to not confuse people but that also means never talking about the shogunate despite the game being set in kyoto in like 1610 lmao

the premise is the strongest swordsman of history vs the strongest swordsman of today but they dont really bother explaining who yoshitsune is or what he stands for beyond anime villain platitudes. it doesnt actually contrast their views on fighting or how the sengoku era changed culture at all lol

to be fair, the whole first game's premise being that nobunaga's contract with demons (aka christianity) translated into contracting with *literal* demons was already kind of insane