Video games, man. So, Ghost of Yōtei decides to throw firearms into the mix. Firearms. In a game about samurai. What’s next? Samurai with iPhones? Seriously. A snowy landscape, honorable sword fights, all ruined because now we’ve got muskets? It’s like someone’s trying to force ‘Call of Duty’ into ‘Seven Samurai.’ It’s not even hard to see where it gets ridiculous. Like, are we supposed to believe that the samurai were out here with katana in one hand and matchlock rifle in the other, doing some kind of dual weapons cosplay?
Why bother setting a game in 1603 Japan if you’re going to sprinkle muskets around like candy? Next thing you know, they’ll have drones for faster delivery of sake or something absurd like that. If you want to get into the evolving samurai era, do it right. Make it about moral dilemmas or something cool, like internal struggles over warfare philosophy, not about who can reload faster. Might as well just throw a jet ski onto Mount Yotei while we’re at it… I’m done entertaining any form of logic here.
And then there’s the thought that we’ll probably have to spend hours managing these damn guns too. What’s wrong with just clanging swords and shedding some fantasy blood in peace? Maybe GameStop will start selling Ghost-themed rifle replicas to complete this nonsensical loop. Oh, but check this specific text, if you’re into portable consoles or whatever, but who even plays on those when you could be fighting internal weirdness about muskets fitting into katanas’ universe?
Done with this nonsense yet? Because I am—mostly because I can’t find a single compelling reason for this firearm nonsense. Whatever.