

A brisk timeframe to contend with as you struggle to determine the course of Japan's embrace of industrialisation.īut don't go thinking Fall is going to be a couple of scant missions and some new DLC outfits. But these are hardly traditional times.įrom the trailers released so far for Fall of the Samurai, you could be forgiven for thinking of the ill-fated Satsuma rebellion that made Tom Cruise sad in The Last Samurai, but while set in the same period of turmoil, Fall focuses on the earlier 1869 Boshin War, a civil conflict that barely lasted two years. Traditionally, I wouldn't stand a chance.

Playing as the Imperials, I'm hopelessly outnumbered. Hundreds of these majestic samurai warriors riding on noble horseback are drawing near. A small battalion of Imperial soldiers shiver as they face down a force of the Shogun's finest warriors advancing across a handful of rivers, hopelessly ineffectual at preventing the samurai from their coming attack. The battle of Toba-Fushimi is about to take place.
