![]() While battles are comprised mainly of light attack, heavy attack, blocking, and countering, that’s a lot of variance depending on what your preferred style is – explore it a bit. On the topic of fighting, there are eighty plus fighting styles in the game that you can learn. Speak with the locals threaten the locals kill the locals… While you can’t kill EVERYONE like you could in the previous entry, it’s pretty close based on your skill. Shortly after the introduction to fighting, you are given free reign. From the very opening you are given the choice of siding with two factions, or not bothering with either. You’re a samurai wandering the countryside, and you are offered options of what you’d like to pursue storywise. That aside, what you’ll find is more of what the previous games offered. A game can be the most beautiful piece of art ever made, but hold it up against something addictively fun, and see which is picked by the masses and played longer. But as a long line of people will tell you: graphics don’t make a game fun. ![]() While the game was originally made for the PS3 and released in 2011, even by last generation standards, it’s not a very pretty game. Let’s just get this out there right now – the game isn’t that good looking. All I know is that I played the series by chance in 2002, and have since been happy to find a new one come out, despite such little fanfare – and get localized, no less! Perhaps it is the fact that I adore Japanese culture, or maybe the fact that it’s more open-world than most other games are despite their claims. Stay within Old Haven to take advantage of the accelerated skill gain buff which speeds up skill gain by about 0.2 - 0.5 per gain.Way of the Samurai has been a series I’ve always enjoyed, despite never really doing well on a critical level. ![]() I hope "The Dragon's Tail" serves you well. Upon a successful strike in combat, there is a chance this mighty weapon will replenish your stamina equal to the damage of your attack. You are an honorable warrior, worthy of the rank of Apprentice Samurai. You will continue to improve as your skills are hone with age. Return to me once you feel that you have become an Apprentice Samurai. With practice, you will learn how to master your Bushido abilities. Your swing speed will also be boosted for a short duration. If you succeed, however, you will be infused with strength and healing. A successful parry instantly ends the weakness. If you fail to honorable execute the undead, your defenses will be greatly weakened: Resistances will suffer and Resisting Spells will suffer. If you do not possess a book of Bushido, you can purchase one from me. ![]() You will need a book of Bushido to perform these abilities. Use the Confidence defensive stance and attempt to honorable execute the undead that inhabit there. That is why you are here.Īdventure East to Old Haven. Learning how to master weapons, and even more importantly when not to use them, is the Way of the Warrior. Learning how to fight properly and skillfully is to become an Armsman. I see you wish to learn the Way of the Samurai. Use the Confidence defensive stance and attempt to honorably execute monsters there until you have raised your Bushido skill to 50. ![]() Head East out of town and go to Old Haven. ![]()
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