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I_Abibde posted...

This specific title is especially underrated, IMO. Possibly the best historical storytelling of the Samurai Warriors series.

I actually think it's one of the worst historical re-tellings out of the Samurai Warriors series. Like, it's great that now Masayuki is a character and they can stop having Yukimura be in battles before he was born or when he was a child. But they bungle a LOT of shit up in the latter half especially, and in some cases it's a historical event/battle that they actually depicted correctly in prior titles.

I was most looking forward to Chacha being playable, but they completely butchered like...everything about her after Odani castle. And Hideyori isn't even mentioned. The ending was ridiculous b/c it wasn't even clear why she was fighting against the Tokugawa.
And instead of the actual (supposed) historical ending of Yukimura charging into the Tokugawa main camp and forcing Ieyasu to retreat before finally succumbing to exhaustion and being slain, we get him...fighting Hitetada (sorry, but honestly who gives a fuck about him, let alone sees him as a big enough threat to be the "final boss"?), then oddly leaving after taking him down instead of like...killing the Shogun and possibly winning the battle, to go rush off...somewhere.... and later die in a secluded spot.
Also, Masayuki's chronic backstabbing disorder just to let you fight under every clan's banner at least once was fucking ridiculous.
EDIT: And after all that strategic side-changing, they didn't even keep in the historical reason that Nobuyuki sided w/ the Tokugawa -- a calculated move by Masayuki to ensure that the Sanada clan would survive no matter which side won. The one time you can show him choosing cold logic over loyalty and be 100% historically in the right, and they don't portray it that way!

I mean, I still loved the game and having the defense of the Sanada-maru made the prominent focal point was awesome and it was a lot of fun. But the glaring historical inaccuracies were grating. The last few SW titles were more accurate, and this was supposed to be THE historically accurate story-focused title in the series.