Thread:Calatore/@comment-28048698-20160603154727/@comment-27247829-20160605062501

WotS 4 was released on PS3...a good four years before Steam. Hideo Kojima was pretty much my hero in terms of writing. I've been following the Metal Gear series since the very first days, though I think I missed some spinoffs and side stories. And due to my fascination with Bakumatsu, I find myself liking the Big Boss era stories, which had similar themes.

There are several possibilities withing F/E. Considering there's a Master with Atalanta in the manga, it's possible that the likes of Diarmuid are summoned, somewhere,

They only started to open themselves at that era, but pretty much. Sword arsenals started to learn rifling and began to produce firearms, whether the locally produced copies or artilleries. This is an important point; while musket has been a part of Japanese society for a while, rifling allows for a more modern approach to gunsmithing, which allows, amongst other things, better bullets and faster operational times. If I recall correctly, I read somewhere that there was even talks to acquire the schematics to built something similar to the famous Black Ship. It's an era of empowerment, and they got dangerously too far, If you recall, in Rurouni Kenshin, Saito mentioned that he had special permission to carry a Japanese katana instead of European sabers, which most policemen started to use at that era. That point is actually very special, and speak degrees to Saito's authority; since many arsenals started to refocus their effort to firearms, the fact that Saito managed to find an arsenal that still produces good old-fashioned Japanese swords is still quite special. While Kenshin's sword is traditionally forged, Saito's sword is forged with modern tools, which allows for a more accurate, higher-quality construction. Remember when Kenshin's sword was broken when he fought Soujiro for the first time? Now remember how Saito split an enemy in half (a Juppongatana member) with his Gatotsu Zero-Shiki, and his sword did not broke; the force required to do that is impossible to reproduce in real life; that speak volumes in the difference of quality between their swords. That doesn't mean Kenshin's sword is inferior though; sometimes, there are methods and results you could only produce with traditional methods.

...I'm still a librarian even if I'm still a gamer or an anime-lover, and I did sometimes teach. So forgive me if I started to ramble.