I like the more personal layer, but it’s also a large source of stress during my first forays into battle. Over time you build up an overview of your general’s character traits and skills as well as a chronicle of your clan, which helps to make it feel like you’re truly roleplaying a daimyo and not just sending lemmings into battle. What the general wants, the general gets.
To keep your troops happy you need to coddle your general, like a toddler prone to tantrums, so that he doesn’t defect, for example by making him a commissioner or letting him marry into the daimyo’s family. Keeping an eye on your general is vital, as their ability to inspire their troops goes so far that losing them is catastrophic for morale and causes your armies to desert the battlefield in droves. Increasingly unhappy with the shogunate-the military government that ruled Japan at the time-clans started to fight each other before setting their eyes on Kyoto, the old capital. You assume control towards the end of the Sengoku Jidai, when the war was in full swing. Like most Total War games, it consists of two elements: large-scale real-time battles, and a turn-based layer of civic development that takes place on a map of the different provinces. By comparison Shogun 2’s love for detail feels almost oppressive. While films such as Akira and Lord of the Rings make use of large-scale battles to great effect, up to this point strategy games with their overhead views always made me feel far removed from the action. Looking at Shogun 2, developer Creative Assembly seems to have been influenced by the same grand tales I enjoyed so much-tales of unlikely odds, loyalty and bravery that get adapted into Japanese television shows over and over again. As I’m fond of saying, while other kids were interested in boy bands and trading card games, I studied the blade via accounts of historical sieges such as the Battle of Kawagoe.
0 kommentar(er)
