yea its pretty egregiously ahistorical, kinda like the 300 of samurai, or the anachronistic concept of 'chivalry' as applied to european knights. exactly as you said, a romanticisation.
It's more inspired by chambara movies than by samurai history. Similar to how Red Dead Redemption is drawing from western movies more than cowboy history.
I don't know what the average samurai movie was like but even comparing to works of the apolitical Kurosawa the plot is completely devoid of anything of substance. It's like a Disney movie and the whole motion of being invaded as a nation to beating the invasion is essentially shown as a slice of life with any political baggage ignored.
It's not unique in this respect by any means but for a blockbuster game to be so hollow in 2020 feels incredibly disappointing. Their implementation of the Kurosawa filter is a good gauge for the level of interest they have in the subject matter. I don't understand how they are working with an artistic medium on a daily basis, explicitly taking inspiration from existing art that has a long history of being critically analysed, and then they end up making something so intellectually bankrupt.
The reason I am so salty about this is that games like this are not just made but they are received well too. It is so stupid. The only people expecting the game to do better are woke looney leftists.
Sorry for rant. It is not aimed at you and I agree with what you said. But I just hate this game.
I think I've just seen enough extremely shit adaptations of Seven Samurai that I set a very low bar for "inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa" lol. That, and I have very low expectations of high-budget, mass market slop :)
I enjoyed the game, but I liked it in a similar way to how I enjoyed the earlier Assassin's Creed games - relatively compelling adventure gameplay in a kinda neat historical-ish setting . You're right, though, the storytelling hasn't advanced too much from Ninja Gaiden on the NES
yea its pretty egregiously ahistorical, kinda like the 300 of samurai, or the anachronistic concept of 'chivalry' as applied to european knights. exactly as you said, a romanticisation.
It's more inspired by chambara movies than by samurai history. Similar to how Red Dead Redemption is drawing from western movies more than cowboy history.
I don't know what the average samurai movie was like but even comparing to works of the apolitical Kurosawa the plot is completely devoid of anything of substance. It's like a Disney movie and the whole motion of being invaded as a nation to beating the invasion is essentially shown as a slice of life with any political baggage ignored.
It's not unique in this respect by any means but for a blockbuster game to be so hollow in 2020 feels incredibly disappointing. Their implementation of the Kurosawa filter is a good gauge for the level of interest they have in the subject matter. I don't understand how they are working with an artistic medium on a daily basis, explicitly taking inspiration from existing art that has a long history of being critically analysed, and then they end up making something so intellectually bankrupt.
The reason I am so salty about this is that games like this are not just made but they are received well too. It is so stupid. The only people expecting the game to do better are woke looney leftists.
Sorry for rant. It is not aimed at you and I agree with what you said. But I just hate this game.
I think I've just seen enough extremely shit adaptations of Seven Samurai that I set a very low bar for "inspired by the works of Akira Kurosawa" lol. That, and I have very low expectations of high-budget, mass market
slop :)
I enjoyed the game, but I liked it in a similar way to how I enjoyed the earlier Assassin's Creed games - relatively compelling adventure gameplay in a kinda neat historical-ish setting
. You're right, though, the storytelling hasn't advanced too much from Ninja Gaiden on the NES
The Ninja Gaiden series on the NES might have a better story. Not a dig so much as Ninja Gaiden is under rated.