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Because of the short length of the story - ranging between two to four hours depending on how many missions you choose to take on - multiple playthroughs are encouraged using "Proof of Life." The "Proof of Life" concept is an interesting take on the New Game+ option seen in many action games. Each different combination of decisions and allegiances I made lead me on a path to one of the game's ten endings. Even though the timetable for the game's story revolves around only a few days, there was more than enough time to find out some very disturbing things about the people of this small town before culminating in a three-round fighting tournament to end my adventure. In other playthroughs, I was disturbed to find out the fetish-like love of torture of the Shogunate and his three daughters who run the town. Saving the ambassador unknowingly led my samurai towards a relationship with the young woman. As you progress, you can stick to one path, try to play all sides or skip the story missions of the three factions all together and just explore the side missions of the open world.Īs I explored the story, things got creepy in a hurry. You can be the "good guy" and save the girl, fighting alongside the Shogunate's constables, or take the "evil path" and take a stand against local law enforcement. The woman is a British ambassador who has come to the small town in hopes of establishing a trade relationship while the rebels are trying to repel the outsiders from influencing their home.
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Everything seems cut and dry as you’re presented with the opportunity to save a small and delicate looking young woman from a gang of rebels.
#Way of the samurai 4 series#
Right off the bat, you get dropped into a series of combat scenarios and are quickly forced to make a choice about the path your character will take. It’s the decisions that you make, the missions you accept and the success you have that determine your samurai’s fate. As a nameless and masterless samurai, you journey into a small township where these three factions stand at odds. Way of the Samurai 4 is a download-only open world action game for the PlayStation Network that allows the player to explore their morality or dark desires in the uncommon setting of a small Japanese village under constant conflict.Ĭaught between a militant government, xenophobic nationalists and a foreign body eager for expansion, you take on the role of a Japanese ronin in the year 1853. But in Way of the Samurai 4, players can find out how they would have fared walking the world as a lone samurai warrior. Sadly, not being born in Japan hundreds of years ago got in the way of that dream. Like many nerdy young men, I’ve sometimes wondered if I could have made it in the days of the samurai.