Thread:Calatore/@comment-28048698-20160603154727/@comment-27247829-20160604193926

Try Way of the Samurai 4 on Steam; the port is...not quite good, but if the series ever had to use Bakumatsu era / Meiji restoration or whatever, WotS 4 is an EXCELLENT example of how they should write the story. In fact, I was very impressed by its writing; it's quite whimsical at times, but they got some great lines and morals that could be applied even in the current times.

There was this one favorite scene of mine in the game (SPOILER ALERT); one of the characters is a staunch disbeliever of everything Western...then he tries to attend a Western school. He was humbled by how big the world was, realizing that Japan is just a tiny piece of land on verge of being very behind the times. He asked something along the lines of "So, can we carry the pride of our nation with something else besides swords? If we became an industrial powerhouse while still carrying the spirit of our nation, can our name and honor be known throughout the world?" The one he asked this question to was quite surprised, but he answered with something along the lines of "Well, that's up to people like us, isn't it?".

There are plenty handsome Servants; that girl was pretty much MAD with her handsome Servant. I actually suspected she got Diarmuid; who else could drive a girl so MAD with their handsomeness? That yellow spear was quite powerful, right?

It's not exactly the transition that made Bakumatsu; while the change in values and arsenal are certainly one of its most apparent aspect, the Bakumatsu is the closing curtain of the Tokugawa Shogunate. After being an isolationist state for so long, people started to accept Western influences. Not just guns and pocketwatch, but also their values, cultures, and technology; especially for industrial purposes. The sense of empowerment it gives eventually resulted in things like the Taisho Roman fashion...and Imperialism, of which you know how it eventually ended up.