Amazing. The OLED steam deck colors are visually stunning, gameplay so fun. Really well balanced combat vs. exploration, great little story sequences and very Japanese. Did not even notice the time go by. What an age we live in.
That's awesome. Here is a podcast episode where some Japanese leftists talk about the game if you are interested.
Against Japanism: Orientalism and Reactionary Ideologies in Video Games w/ Kazuma Hashimoto and Andrew Kiya
Episode webpage: https://againstjapanism.buzzsprout.com
Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1738110/8198795-orientalism-and-reactionary-ideologies-in-video-games-w-kazuma-hashimoto-and-andrew-kiya.mp3
The first 8 hours were pretty entertaining. Over all I thought it was kinda mid considering all the praise it got when it came out. The story and characters are pretty 2 dimensional. I slowly kinda got this bad taste in my mouth because I realized who I was fighting against and who I was fighting for. Fuck imperialist Japan. Long Live 成吉思汗
It took you 8 hours of playing as a japanese samurai resisting a mongol invasion on a Japanese island to realize who you were fighting for? Sad.
