For those wondering what the fuck happened to the franchise, here’s a good primer:

Ishiwatari is basically who Tetsuya Nomura wants to be but lacks the self-awareness and sense of humor

He’s desperate and needs some kind of “rallying cry” but nobody cares.

Someone vacuum seal this old coot until the inauguration

FUUUUUUUCK THIIIIIIIS GAAAAAAAME

Citation needed

Also, they paid for exclusive DLC for THIS game? Really? The game that’s been getting paddled with mockery for the past year? Fucking hell this is pathetic

Place your bets on how bad Spidey’s stunt double is going to look

No, no they don’t

No Ubisoft, this doesn’t rectify your misogynist work environment

Really? Two huge typhoons that just so happened to occur in the late 13th century aren’t accurate? And “hundreds of years of research?”, that’s exaggerating a LOT. The theory that the typhoons didn’t happen is relatively recent, within the past couple decades, which is why that geological survey was done in the first…

Also, the study showed that the climate happened to be far different back then, thus why the typhoon activity is different from the present day. Climate is not static, it just lasts really fucking long.

It’s not just the beginning, that’s just the first warning sign. The rest of the game also goes for a complete surface level understanding of Kurosawa and Japanese culture in general. Forget historical fiction, this is ahistorical fantasy that veers WAY too close to stuff Japan’s right wing loves:

Nope, it was a typhoon. They actually found scientific evidence of it recently: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/12/mongol-smashing-kamikaze-typhoons-may-have-been-genuine

It’s nothing but skin deep. The beginning of the game alone completely contradicts Kurosawa’s ethos

At that point it’ll just be Roberts coding, writing, rendering, and acting everything

Which will be around the heat death of the universe

Because it plays into this idea of “we’re just that awesome!” and “Just pull yourself up by your boot straps!” that propagates with samurai myths. The fact of the matter was that Japan was curb stomped by the Mongols and it literally took an act of god to drive them off.

Plus being on the side of the misogynist, racist asshat ain’t a good look

One of the biggest, “are you fucking kidding me!?” parts is that the typhoon, the ENTIRE reason the Mongol invasion was stopped, doesn’t happen. That’s....not a good thing, because it really puffs up that “myth of the samurai” that has a very imperialist bent. Sucker Punch clearly thought that they could slot in stuff…