so, played way of the samurai 3 for about 2 hours and, hmm... it's pretty strange
it definitely feels like most of the elements of way of the samurai 1 are still here, the lone samurai dealing with a small village's conflict between warring factions, the sword collecting, the totally anime main characters, the goofy japanese grunt speech, the general jankiness, it's all rushing back to me in a pretty enjoyable way
not sure if much's evolved in these two entries, tho, if anything. while wots1 had like that 3 day act structure that kind of felt like things were moving forward, i'm not really sure what i'm supposed to do here so i've been just doing general trash quests around town (find some old lady's underwear is the first interaction you have with this game's quest system...) to see if that takes me around the different areas and i stumble upon a cutscene or an interesting situation. this has for the most part worked out but i don't get the sense of presence or urgency that i got out of wots1 back in the day
i'm liking it so far, but it's weird. it's a pretty bad port as far as like menu options and like jaggies everywhere and 30 fps (this game would be so much better at 60 fps) and like not being able to freaking load a previous save without suiciding or restarting the damn game but i'm hoping the story will pick up and i'll get to do some cool samurai shit
also idk why but that psycho samurai walking around with the crazy samurai hat mask things creep the fuck out of me. specially at night i hate seeing them lol